“Sayonara is for long goodbyes. Don’t be gone so long.” Kana raised her hand in a stilled wave. “Let’s say ‘see you later’ instead. Mata ne.”

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I love the plot building, and though the reading pace somewhat slow for me, but it's the kind that not tedious at all but rather exciting and one I really enjoyed. While the narration going back and forth from Grace to Kana, that really helped to make the storyline well arranged -- a style of writing that I do prefer.

The storyline still in the kind of conflict you could find in a young-adult book. Where teenagers facing conflict to find and discover who their true self are, and in the journey to build their personality with responsibility and relationships in line to be given their same amount of attention. Yet this book brought it to a different level with two different culture, country and people come together. And surely the author's knowledge about Japanese culture really shown in the writing.

I love the characters, they do show some low self-esteem characteristics and how they then broke through into a new phase of personality. Both Grace and Kana thought that they are a coward, but see upon each other as someone who is brave and confident. This just shows how we are definitely aren't the same way people see us.