*~~*ARC kindly provided to me for an honest review *~~*

- Review to come

Review originally posted on my blog with added content on Mikku-chan / A world full of words

So this was partially a case of missed expectations by a long shot. I went into this misguidedly thinking I had found a partially own voices gay asian romance novel by an asian author. I was wrong on that count which isnt the books fault more fault of my not researching properly before requesting. It only dampened my desire to continue slightly.

That aside I did not enjoy this book. I did not enjoy how Sato and Aoi's relationship developed at all. And found at times Aoi to be gaslighting Sato especially with that "friendship kiss". This book mainly felt as though it was just one weird happenstance after another and just culturally did not feel like Japan to me.

Sato's sister agreeing to go on a fake date and everything from the broken leg in the shower just felt off. Like there was a disconnect in the story itself. Also as a gundam fan I have to say Sunrise would never give up the rights to another smaller company for even a couple seasons. So while Sato working for his favorite animes studio made sense if you are already using Gundam you might as well just use Sunrise as the studio.

Even from the perspective of light fluff this didnt work for me. The issue with Aoi's parents felt terribly flat and wasnt developed well at all. Maybe if it had been longer but overall this book and I did not jive which is unfortunate