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Engaging and intriguing start, that goes a bit off the rails
The first half of this book is fun and accessible with lots of floor plans. It definitely encourages you to keep reading, and there is lots of dialogue making it easy to read. The second half ... well, not so much. I won't leave any spoilers, but when the floor plans disappear there is a lot of plot exposition and it is both heavier going (a large number of names) and not so interesting. However, that said, this generated a lot of discussion in the Wanikani book club. A number of people found this a very enjoyable first novel in Japanese.