One of the rare books where I actually think it would have been better if there was a second book or this book was longer. The ideas were so great, but it felt so rushed. I wish there would have been more time with the characters. I felt like they all had so much potential, but the surface was barely scratched. I think this would have been better with one POV or maybe two.

Mari and Taro had the potential to be an interesting, complicated couple but it quickly became insta love and then hate. I thought the book was going to show that it clearly wasn't love and to be weary of men who move too fast, but instead the book tries to give us an unearned heartbreaking ending for Taro. Despite the book feeling rushed, I was often uninterested in Akira or Taro's chapters.