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文学少女 #3
Cô Gái Văn Chương Và Gã Khờ Bị Trói Buộc
Cô gái văn chương và gã khờ bị trói buộc là tập thứ ba trong series Cô gái văn chương. Nếu như hai tập đầu tiên lấy cảm hứng từ những tiểu thuyết văn học nổi tiếng ở Nhật Bản và trên thế giới, thì tác phẩm chủ đề của tập này là Tình bạn – một vở kịch của Mushanokouji Saneatsu, xoay quanh chủ đề đấu tranh nội tâm giữa tình yêu và tình bạn. Nojima – nhân vật chính – yêu Sugiko, nhưng Sugiko lại đem lòng yêu bạn thân của anh ta, Oomiya. Oomiya tuy cũng có tình cảm với Sugiko, nhưng vì tình bạn với Nojima, anh đã quyết định sẽ kìm nén cảm xúc của mình và chúc phúc cho người bạn thân. Câu chuyện trong tác phẩm này được lồng ghép một cách khéo léo vào câu chuyện của những nhân vật trong Cô gái văn chương. Nếu như mối quan hệ giữa các nhân vật trong truyện ở các tập trước vẫn còn rời rạc thì đến tập này mọi thứ được kết nối lại. Những bí mật dần hé mở, khiến cho người đọc phải suy đoán về những diễn biến tiếp theo của series này.
Cô gái văn chương và gã khờ bị trói buộc được cộng đồng đánh giá là tập có giọng văn hay nhất trong toàn series. Những câu nói của các nhân vật trong truyện được trích từ vở kịch đều rất đáng ghi nhớ, mà theo như tác giả nói thì chúng không khác gì những câu “danh ngôn”. Câu chuyện trong tập ba này nhẹ nhàng và tươi sáng hơn so với tập trước, tình tiết vô cùng lôi cuốn, hấp dẫn, đồng thời gợi ra sự tò mò cho người đọc về các tập tiếp theo.
Cô gái văn chương và gã khờ bị trói buộc được cộng đồng đánh giá là tập có giọng văn hay nhất trong toàn series. Những câu nói của các nhân vật trong truyện được trích từ vở kịch đều rất đáng ghi nhớ, mà theo như tác giả nói thì chúng không khác gì những câu “danh ngôn”. Câu chuyện trong tập ba này nhẹ nhàng và tươi sáng hơn so với tập trước, tình tiết vô cùng lôi cuốn, hấp dẫn, đồng thời gợi ra sự tò mò cho người đọc về các tập tiếp theo.
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First published December 25, 2006
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June 4, 2017
This book.
This book was fantastic.
There is no other way to describe this book.
The Book Girl series has always had mystery and psychological thriller elements. This book just ramped it up. I didn't think it could get anymore spine tingling, hair raising, or shock inducing after that last volume. I was wrong.
Captive Fool took this to a whole new level.
There were many points in this book that I seriously felt like this:
and yet I couldn't look away.
I love psychological thrillers. The problem is that they tend to get too gory for my taste. This one abstained from excessive gore and truly freaked me out just from suspense alone. The way information was doled out was brilliant. You were always told just what you needed to know at that point, no more, no less, but you always know that something just doesn't feel right.
And the description. Mizuki Nomura's writing is practically art. The pictures she paints with words are almost tangible. The way she described characters and events made them feel real, and really terrifying.
And here I want to take a moment to say that this is a not a horror story. It really is a psychological thriller. It's not nightmare inducing, but you will get freaked out.
In this story, we see our dynamic duo Konoha and Tohko once again getting into trouble. This time, it all starts with Tohko trying to track down the vandal damaging her favorite library books. One thing leads to another, and Tohko enlists the vandal's help in the play the book club is putting on for the Cultural Festival. Characters from previous stories return, and new ones are introduced, leading to the ultimate conclusion (which I won't tell you because spoilers).
So far, each book in the series has drawn a parallel to a book, usually one that is somehow central to the plot. In this case, the book is a Japanese classic called Friendship. And even though I've never read Friendship, the parallels are subtly explained so even American readers can get it.
As always, things are wrapped up nicely by the end, and while I wouldn't say "Happily Ever After," Captive Fool ends, for the most part, on a much lighter note than did Famished Spirit. I say "for the most part" because of the epilogue. That last paragraph. Oh my god.
Did not see that coming. Did not. No way. That both made me angry (and a good way) and had me going, "NO!!!! NO NO NO NO NO!!!! BUT YOU SAID-- THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!!!"
Anyway, I highly recommend this. Especially to other Book Girls (and Guys) out there. I would, however, recommend starting at the beginning with Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime so you understand some of the recurring characters.
This book was fantastic.
There is no other way to describe this book.
The Book Girl series has always had mystery and psychological thriller elements. This book just ramped it up. I didn't think it could get anymore spine tingling, hair raising, or shock inducing after that last volume. I was wrong.
Captive Fool took this to a whole new level.
There were many points in this book that I seriously felt like this:
and yet I couldn't look away.
I love psychological thrillers. The problem is that they tend to get too gory for my taste. This one abstained from excessive gore and truly freaked me out just from suspense alone. The way information was doled out was brilliant. You were always told just what you needed to know at that point, no more, no less, but you always know that something just doesn't feel right.
And the description. Mizuki Nomura's writing is practically art. The pictures she paints with words are almost tangible. The way she described characters and events made them feel real, and really terrifying.
And here I want to take a moment to say that this is a not a horror story. It really is a psychological thriller. It's not nightmare inducing, but you will get freaked out.
In this story, we see our dynamic duo Konoha and Tohko once again getting into trouble. This time, it all starts with Tohko trying to track down the vandal damaging her favorite library books. One thing leads to another, and Tohko enlists the vandal's help in the play the book club is putting on for the Cultural Festival. Characters from previous stories return, and new ones are introduced, leading to the ultimate conclusion (which I won't tell you because spoilers).
So far, each book in the series has drawn a parallel to a book, usually one that is somehow central to the plot. In this case, the book is a Japanese classic called Friendship. And even though I've never read Friendship, the parallels are subtly explained so even American readers can get it.
As always, things are wrapped up nicely by the end, and while I wouldn't say "Happily Ever After," Captive Fool ends, for the most part, on a much lighter note than did Famished Spirit. I say "for the most part" because of the epilogue. That last paragraph. Oh my god.
Did not see that coming. Did not. No way. That both made me angry (and a good way) and had me going, "NO!!!! NO NO NO NO NO!!!! BUT YOU SAID-- THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!!!"
Anyway, I highly recommend this. Especially to other Book Girls (and Guys) out there. I would, however, recommend starting at the beginning with Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime so you understand some of the recurring characters.
June 24, 2014
The stories in each volume of Book Girl are self-contained, fill the reader in on important character traits and could stand alone fairly well, but this story really gains dimensions by building off of established characters and plotlines in the previous books, so I really recommend starting at the beginning.
Our usual protagonists are at the center of Book Girl and the Captive Fool - the self-styled "book girl" (who happens to be a literature loving and eating goblin in schoolgirl form) Tohko and her force recruited book club junior Konoha (whose responsibilities revolve around writing Tohko snacks). They often get caught up in mysterious happenings involving other students.
As I've warned before, providing an accurate summary of the series' premise and its main characters is a bit misleading in that it makes the books sound much different in approach and tone than they are. The stories do not much deal with Tohko's "unusual" appetite nor explain it. Her love of literature is much more relevant. And the weirdness of the premise seems to point towards light, happy-go-lucky stories. This could not be farther from the truth. The Book Girl series is VERY dark and addresses extremely heavy themes. They are great reads featuring compelling characters and are laced with bits of humor here and there, but know going in that this is much more psychological thriller territory than madcap adventures.
This third book features Konoha getting dragged into Tohko's outrage driven investigation into a recent string of book vandalism presented in parallel with horrific letters written by someone having urges to perform mutilations beyond paper. After Famished Spirit I wasn't sure the series could get creepier or more intense. I was wrong. Captive Fool escalates things several notches, keeping the reader guessing about who knows and is responsible for what as the character barrel closer and closer towards tragedy. As usual there is a thematic literary tie-in, which is exquisitely used and integrated into unfolding events.
Everything came togther beautifully and this is easily my favorite of the series so far. We have several recurring characters show up along with some strong new ones introduced and all of them have distinct personalities and motivations. There were no easy answers to the things that trouble them and they get scared, make wrong decisions sometimes, struggle to deal with the consequences of their pasts, etc. The author is excellent at dropping in little hints and retelling things we already know something about in a slightly different way that gives more information. It adds a lot of depth and intrigue because the reader is effortlessly learning more about the overarching plots and the characters' long term problems while being firmly engaged with the current story.
And Captive Fool is a fantastic one. A tense, chilling atmosphere is kept throughout, the writing and translation are as impressive as ever, and I ended every chapter dying to know what was going to happen next. The climax of the unfolded in a wonderfully unique way that did justice to the all the preceding build up. Then just as my emotions were calming down the epilogue floored me with major developments that are likely to be felt throughout the rest of the series.
I will admit that it quite often wasn't an easy read, and I don't mean from a technical perspective (the writing flows wonderfully) but rather because of the subject matter. At the risk of repeating myself too much the story goes to dark, unsettling places and our characters are in for a lot of angst and emotional and mental turmoil. So fair warning - this is a brutal ride.
If you can handle it though Captive Fool is simply phenomenal and it's well worth accompanying the characters through their suffering.
Highest possible recommendation.
Our usual protagonists are at the center of Book Girl and the Captive Fool - the self-styled "book girl" (who happens to be a literature loving and eating goblin in schoolgirl form) Tohko and her force recruited book club junior Konoha (whose responsibilities revolve around writing Tohko snacks). They often get caught up in mysterious happenings involving other students.
As I've warned before, providing an accurate summary of the series' premise and its main characters is a bit misleading in that it makes the books sound much different in approach and tone than they are. The stories do not much deal with Tohko's "unusual" appetite nor explain it. Her love of literature is much more relevant. And the weirdness of the premise seems to point towards light, happy-go-lucky stories. This could not be farther from the truth. The Book Girl series is VERY dark and addresses extremely heavy themes. They are great reads featuring compelling characters and are laced with bits of humor here and there, but know going in that this is much more psychological thriller territory than madcap adventures.
This third book features Konoha getting dragged into Tohko's outrage driven investigation into a recent string of book vandalism presented in parallel with horrific letters written by someone having urges to perform mutilations beyond paper. After Famished Spirit I wasn't sure the series could get creepier or more intense. I was wrong. Captive Fool escalates things several notches, keeping the reader guessing about who knows and is responsible for what as the character barrel closer and closer towards tragedy. As usual there is a thematic literary tie-in, which is exquisitely used and integrated into unfolding events.
Everything came togther beautifully and this is easily my favorite of the series so far. We have several recurring characters show up along with some strong new ones introduced and all of them have distinct personalities and motivations. There were no easy answers to the things that trouble them and they get scared, make wrong decisions sometimes, struggle to deal with the consequences of their pasts, etc. The author is excellent at dropping in little hints and retelling things we already know something about in a slightly different way that gives more information. It adds a lot of depth and intrigue because the reader is effortlessly learning more about the overarching plots and the characters' long term problems while being firmly engaged with the current story.
And Captive Fool is a fantastic one. A tense, chilling atmosphere is kept throughout, the writing and translation are as impressive as ever, and I ended every chapter dying to know what was going to happen next. The climax of the unfolded in a wonderfully unique way that did justice to the all the preceding build up. Then just as my emotions were calming down the epilogue floored me with major developments that are likely to be felt throughout the rest of the series.
I will admit that it quite often wasn't an easy read, and I don't mean from a technical perspective (the writing flows wonderfully) but rather because of the subject matter. At the risk of repeating myself too much the story goes to dark, unsettling places and our characters are in for a lot of angst and emotional and mental turmoil. So fair warning - this is a brutal ride.
If you can handle it though Captive Fool is simply phenomenal and it's well worth accompanying the characters through their suffering.
Highest possible recommendation.
September 11, 2014
I had heard some comments about the irony of how Book Girl and the Captive Fool was still really dark but yet was the most light-hearted of the series so far. I read it and I have to agree. Despite the pain and heartache characters suffer, it was still the most cheerful ending, which kinda says something about what type of series this is.
I normally don't like this type of angsty series, yet author Mizuki Nomura just somehow makes it work and I ended up really enjoying the series. Maybe it's how the characters really seem more "real" than in other books, or maybe it's the magical realism angle. It could be just that the two main characters, Konoha and Tohko, the titular "Book Girl" (a goblin who eats books), are so fascinating. I'm not entirely sure.
One part I know I like is the way that Tohko always sticks her nose into other peoples' business to help them, out of a wierd mix of reasons. She's not entirely selfless OR selfish. She is a complex character that is always bratty, a little bossy and insufferable, yet ultimately sweet and someone the reader can't help but like. By this volume, Konoha is finally starting to care more and want to help others under Tohko's influence and friendship.
Yup, this is definitely part of it. Watching a supernatural creature go around eating books but otherwise doing mundane things and using a brilliant intellect to solve mysteries to help folks psychologically is just such a mish-mash of genres that I just find myself fascinated.
This time, Tohko ropes Konoha's classmate and uncertain friend, Akutagawa, into helping with the play she wants the "Book Club" of their high school to put on at the culture festival. Such clubs and festivals are a big thing in Japan, by the by. Unfortunately, since only her and Konoha are in the BC, she needs more people. Helping out are Kotobuki, Konoha's tsundere classmate, and Takeda, someone they helped in the first book when she was in the depths of despair.
At first, things seem normal enough, at least for this bunch. Hmmm. Maybe that should have been the first clue for Konoha that something had to happen. But slowly a mystery unfolds around harmful actions that Akutagawa is taking in his life and an emotional crisis that is spiraling out of control. There could be real, and fatal, consequence if Tohko and Konoha can't find a way to help him in time.
For those who like the darker tone of the series, don't worry, it's still plenty dark. But sometimes you need your bittersweet endings to be, perhaps, a tad bit less bitter and more sweet. That would be the case here.
The only problem I had with the story is something that the author herself admits in the Afterword, which is the treatment of Nanase Kotobuki as a character. The author built up some major stuff for her part of the storyline (and from what she said in the afterword and I know from spoilers since this series is completed, Nomura had the storyline planned out), and then just let it fizzle out for now. I can understand that this is likely due to length, but it is quite frustrating.
Other than that, no real complaints. This was a dark, but quite fun and ultimately happy, story. I quite Highly Recommend it.
I normally don't like this type of angsty series, yet author Mizuki Nomura just somehow makes it work and I ended up really enjoying the series. Maybe it's how the characters really seem more "real" than in other books, or maybe it's the magical realism angle. It could be just that the two main characters, Konoha and Tohko, the titular "Book Girl" (a goblin who eats books), are so fascinating. I'm not entirely sure.
One part I know I like is the way that Tohko always sticks her nose into other peoples' business to help them, out of a wierd mix of reasons. She's not entirely selfless OR selfish. She is a complex character that is always bratty, a little bossy and insufferable, yet ultimately sweet and someone the reader can't help but like. By this volume, Konoha is finally starting to care more and want to help others under Tohko's influence and friendship.
Yup, this is definitely part of it. Watching a supernatural creature go around eating books but otherwise doing mundane things and using a brilliant intellect to solve mysteries to help folks psychologically is just such a mish-mash of genres that I just find myself fascinated.
This time, Tohko ropes Konoha's classmate and uncertain friend, Akutagawa, into helping with the play she wants the "Book Club" of their high school to put on at the culture festival. Such clubs and festivals are a big thing in Japan, by the by. Unfortunately, since only her and Konoha are in the BC, she needs more people. Helping out are Kotobuki, Konoha's tsundere classmate, and Takeda, someone they helped in the first book when she was in the depths of despair.
At first, things seem normal enough, at least for this bunch. Hmmm. Maybe that should have been the first clue for Konoha that something had to happen. But slowly a mystery unfolds around harmful actions that Akutagawa is taking in his life and an emotional crisis that is spiraling out of control. There could be real, and fatal, consequence if Tohko and Konoha can't find a way to help him in time.
For those who like the darker tone of the series, don't worry, it's still plenty dark. But sometimes you need your bittersweet endings to be, perhaps, a tad bit less bitter and more sweet. That would be the case here.
The only problem I had with the story is something that the author herself admits in the Afterword, which is the treatment of Nanase Kotobuki as a character. The author built up some major stuff for her part of the storyline (and from what she said in the afterword and I know from spoilers since this series is completed, Nomura had the storyline planned out), and then just let it fizzle out for now. I can understand that this is likely due to length, but it is quite frustrating.
Other than that, no real complaints. This was a dark, but quite fun and ultimately happy, story. I quite Highly Recommend it.
April 18, 2012
The third book of the Bungaku Shoujo series keep the plot going and going. As stated in the first book, Konoha was a famous author and a girl presuming it's his girlfriend, committed suicide. The back story of Konoha made me realize that this was going to be very important in the future books. If you read the epilogue, you will UNDERSTAND why. The ending makes you want to read the fourth book. If you watch the movie, you know you HAVE to read the fifth book. The supporting characters of the third book stole the show. Well, Tohko is always amazing but the play made her even more of the bungaku shoujo she is.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 12, 2016
Nối tiếp truyền thống viết review từ tập trước, mình quyết định dừng lại viết comment về nửa đầu của câu chuyện ở tập 3. Có lẽ nội dung về tình yêu cuồng nhiệt nên đến giờ Konoha không nghĩ về hình ảnh trước khi chết của Miu nữa, thay vào đó là một "thằng ngốc đang yêu chính hiệu". Thêm vào đó hành vi đóng kịch đậm chất hài của Tooko nên bầu không khí vẫn còn vui vẻ dễ chịu. Kotobuki thì vẫn khiến mình khó chịu với thái độ làm việc này việc nọ việc kia không phải là vì Konoha đâu nhé. Haiz, thích thì cứ nói đại là thích đi cho rồi! Chỉ có đoạn Kotobuki nói nhỏ với Konoha về phán đoán Akutagawa thích Tooko là mình thấy chấp nhận được vì thân thiện hơn thôi. Tuy nhiên sự thật là mình mới đi qua 1/3 chặng đường, không khí xấu đi là điều có thể tiên đoán để chuẩn bị tinh thần.
Và rồi cảnh này xuất hiện:
Mình sững sờ. Sững sờ như Konoha và Takeda khi chứng kiến cảnh đó. Mình biết là chuyện của Akutagawa sẽ có phần giống với chuyện tình tay ba trong tác phẩm "Tình Bạn" của Mushanokouji Saneatsu nhưng trong lòng thì vẫn luôn tự phản bác mong là đừng như vậy. Một phần là mình không thích kiểu tiểu thư yếu đuối như Sarashina nên không mong Akutagawa vì cô nàng này mà hi sinh tình bạn.
Ờ thì đúng là đã chuẩn bị tinh thần rồi đó, nhưng mà diễn biến tiếp theo vẫn khiến mình ngạc nhiên quá độ. Trước khi kết thúc vài trang, mình vẫn một mực đinh ninh rằng những đoạn thư trích dẫn trong truyện quá dễ hiểu đi. Ai cũng rõ ai là người viết, người được viết đến là ai và người nhận là ai, không có nửa úp nửa mở, tranh tối tranh sáng cho người đọc đoán mò như hai tập trư���c. Ngờ đâu chỉ là mình tự huyễn hoặc bản thân thế thôi. Điều không thể ngờ nhất chính là đối tượng Akutagawa viết thư cho và yêu hiện giờ lại là Miu tự tử chưa chết.
Mình cũng chẳng biết diễn tả cảm giác lúc gấp lại quyển sách thế nào. Lúc đấy đang ở trên máy bay nên chỉ biết ngồi thẫn thờ trong khi đầu óc căng như dây đàn mà không biết phát tiết đi đâu. Nếu mà đang ở nhà chắc mình sẽ phải lăn lộn vài vòng rồi hừng hực tâm trạng viết review rồi. Nói chung là bí ẩn lằng nhằng cũng hay nhưng mình hơi thất vọng khi Miu còn sống. Bao lâu nay cái thằng Konoha tâm hồn mỏng manh yếu đuối, lúc nào cũng tâm trạng này nọ đến mức khó thở chẳng phải là vì chuyện của Miu sao. Giờ thì tuy bị thương tật nhưng con bé vẫn sống sờ sờ ra làm mất hết cả ý nghĩa. Rồi thì còn định qua Akutagawa lên kế hoạch trả thù. Haizzzz...
Tuy mình rất chán ghét việc Akutagawa yêu Miu nhưng ít nhất thằng nhóc vẫn chưa mất lý trí đến độ hại bạn mình. Mà cũng chỉ là tạm thời tại thời điểm này thôi, tương lai thì chẳng biết được, hint rõ ràng ngay trong lời nói của Akutagawa: "Tôi vẫn còn có chuyện giấu ông, Inoue. Có lẽ một ngày nào đó, tôi sẽ khiến ông bị tổn thương."
Lúc đầu mình cũng thấy Akutagawa hay hay nhưng giờ thì thôi rồi, chỉ có thể trách em nó chọn nhầm người để yêu. Các đối tượng mà em ấy thích toàn người vô đối, toàn kiểu mình không thể ưa nổi, hết Sarashina lại đến Miu. Rõ là em ấy là M chính hiệu rồi còn gì. Nhân vật nam chọn nhầm người để yêu, nhân vật nữ cùng toàn đâm đầu vào Konoha :facepalm: Mình lo lắm ấy, ai thích Konoha thì cũng được đi nhưng mình khá thích Tooko nên hi vọng Tooko và Konoha chỉ ở mức chị em thôi. Cầu trời trong vô vọng :-<
Hai tập trước dù u ám đến đâu thì kết thúc vẫn được coi là trọn vẹn, như ánh sáng phía cuối đường hầm. Riêng tập này cái kết lại khiến mình bức bối vì sự xuất hiện của Miu. Cuối cùng mình cũng nhận ra tình cảm của mình với Cô gái văn chương: vừa thích vừa ghét, vừa yêu vừa hận, rõ là đầy điểm không thích nhưng không kiềm được mà đâm đầu vào đọc.
Tuy nhiên điểm sáng của tập này là lời thoại của các nhân vật đúng là toàn các câu nói hay mà mình thực sự thấy tâm đắc. Ví dụ điển hình:
Oomiya an ủi Nojima khi tác phẩm của anh bị chỉ trích: "Đây chỉ là sự trả thù sớm dành cho cậu mà thôi. Tôi biết không một ai trên đời này kiên cường và giỏi giang hơn cậu." Lí giải của Tooko: "Tương lai cậu nhất định sẽ thành công và để đền bù cho những người bị thành công của cậu lấn át sau này, cậu phải chấp nhận những khó khăn của hiện tại". Chỉ một câu này là đủ để mình thích nhân vật Oomiya này rồi.
Tooko khuyên nhủ Akutagawa qua vở kịch:
Tất cả chúng ta đều đang bị trói buộc bởi rất nhiều thứ. Bởi gia đình, bạn bè, người yêu, bởi sự giận dữ, niềm vui, nỗi buồn và sự căm hận.
Chàng có lẽ đang nghĩ rằng tất cả những thứ đó đều rất quan trọng đối với con người, nếu chặt đứt chúng, con người sẽ không thể sống tiếp được. Tuy nhiên, con người vì cắt đứt sợi dây rốn nối họ với mẹ mình mới có thể được sinh ra trên cõi đời này. Nếu không chặt đứt quá khứ đang ràng buộc mình, ta sẽ không thể tiến về tương lai được.
Chỉ khi thử phá hủy tất cả, thử nếm trải cảm giác bị tổn thương, ta mới có thể biết đến những điều mới mẻ: nhìn thấy chút phong cảnh đang bị che lấp, nhận ra chút tâm tình đang bị trói buộc.
[...]
Cho dù là ai đi nữa thì chỉ cần là con người, họ cũng sẽ mang trong mình đau đớn, khổ sở, phiền não. Không con người nào lại chưa từng đau khổ. Trên đời này không tồn tại con người nào chưa từng thất bại!
Bởi vì tất cả chúng ta đều là những tên khờ!
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Đằng nào chúng ta cũng là những tên khờ, vậy thì chúng ta hãy cứ là những tên khờ mang theo lý tưởng trong tim, là những tên khờ luôn tiến về phía trước không sợ hãi thất bại!
Khờ dại không có gì xấu cả. Chàng hãy cứ làm theo cách của chàng, nói ra mọi điều trong thâm tâm bằng chính âm thanh, ngôn ngữ, ý nghĩ và sự thành thật của chàng! Chàng hãy tự quyết định con đường mình đi bằng chính con tim mình!
Và rồi cảnh này xuất hiện:
Trong bóng tối lờ mờ bị thiêu đốt bởi ánh nắng cháy rực của buổi chiều tà, hình ảnh Akutagawa quỳ gối, trán gí sát xuống thảm cỏ trông chẳng khác gì cảnh Chúa Giesu bị đóng đinh lên thập tự giá.
[...] Sarashina khuỵu người xuống, mặt dán vào lưng của Akutagawa và bật khóc nức nở.
Cho đến khi mặt trời đã lặn và màn đêm lạnh lẽo bao phủ lấy bóng dáng của hai người, Akutagawa vẫn cúi gập đầu xuống thảm cỏ không hề nhúc nhích.
Mình sững sờ. Sững sờ như Konoha và Takeda khi chứng kiến cảnh đó. Mình biết là chuyện của Akutagawa sẽ có phần giống với chuyện tình tay ba trong tác phẩm "Tình Bạn" của Mushanokouji Saneatsu nhưng trong lòng thì vẫn luôn tự phản bác mong là đừng như vậy. Một phần là mình không thích kiểu tiểu thư yếu đuối như Sarashina nên không mong Akutagawa vì cô nàng này mà hi sinh tình bạn.
Ờ thì đúng là đã chuẩn bị tinh thần rồi đó, nhưng mà diễn biến tiếp theo vẫn khiến mình ngạc nhiên quá độ. Trước khi kết thúc vài trang, mình vẫn một mực đinh ninh rằng những đoạn thư trích dẫn trong truyện quá dễ hiểu đi. Ai cũng rõ ai là người viết, người được viết đến là ai và người nhận là ai, không có nửa úp nửa mở, tranh tối tranh sáng cho người đọc đoán mò như hai tập trư���c. Ngờ đâu chỉ là mình tự huyễn hoặc bản thân thế thôi. Điều không thể ngờ nhất chính là đối tượng Akutagawa viết thư cho và yêu hiện giờ lại là Miu tự tử chưa chết.
Mình cũng chẳng biết diễn tả cảm giác lúc gấp lại quyển sách thế nào. Lúc đấy đang ở trên máy bay nên chỉ biết ngồi thẫn thờ trong khi đầu óc căng như dây đàn mà không biết phát tiết đi đâu. Nếu mà đang ở nhà chắc mình sẽ phải lăn lộn vài vòng rồi hừng hực tâm trạng viết review rồi. Nói chung là bí ẩn lằng nhằng cũng hay nhưng mình hơi thất vọng khi Miu còn sống. Bao lâu nay cái thằng Konoha tâm hồn mỏng manh yếu đuối, lúc nào cũng tâm trạng này nọ đến mức khó thở chẳng phải là vì chuyện của Miu sao. Giờ thì tuy bị thương tật nhưng con bé vẫn sống sờ sờ ra làm mất hết cả ý nghĩa. Rồi thì còn định qua Akutagawa lên kế hoạch trả thù. Haizzzz...
Tuy mình rất chán ghét việc Akutagawa yêu Miu nhưng ít nhất thằng nhóc vẫn chưa mất lý trí đến độ hại bạn mình. Mà cũng chỉ là tạm thời tại thời điểm này thôi, tương lai thì chẳng biết được, hint rõ ràng ngay trong lời nói của Akutagawa: "Tôi vẫn còn có chuyện giấu ông, Inoue. Có lẽ một ngày nào đó, tôi sẽ khiến ông bị tổn thương."
Lúc đầu mình cũng thấy Akutagawa hay hay nhưng giờ thì thôi rồi, chỉ có thể trách em nó chọn nhầm người để yêu. Các đối tượng mà em ấy thích toàn người vô đối, toàn kiểu mình không thể ưa nổi, hết Sarashina lại đến Miu. Rõ là em ấy là M chính hiệu rồi còn gì. Nhân vật nam chọn nhầm người để yêu, nhân vật nữ cùng toàn đâm đầu vào Konoha :facepalm: Mình lo lắm ấy, ai thích Konoha thì cũng được đi nhưng mình khá thích Tooko nên hi vọng Tooko và Konoha chỉ ở mức chị em thôi. Cầu trời trong vô vọng :-<
Hai tập trước dù u ám đến đâu thì kết thúc vẫn được coi là trọn vẹn, như ánh sáng phía cuối đường hầm. Riêng tập này cái kết lại khiến mình bức bối vì sự xuất hiện của Miu. Cuối cùng mình cũng nhận ra tình cảm của mình với Cô gái văn chương: vừa thích vừa ghét, vừa yêu vừa hận, rõ là đầy điểm không thích nhưng không kiềm được mà đâm đầu vào đọc.
Tuy nhiên điểm sáng của tập này là lời thoại của các nhân vật đúng là toàn các câu nói hay mà mình thực sự thấy tâm đắc. Ví dụ điển hình:
Oomiya an ủi Nojima khi tác phẩm của anh bị chỉ trích: "Đây chỉ là sự trả thù sớm dành cho cậu mà thôi. Tôi biết không một ai trên đời này kiên cường và giỏi giang hơn cậu." Lí giải của Tooko: "Tương lai cậu nhất định sẽ thành công và để đền bù cho những người bị thành công của cậu lấn át sau này, cậu phải chấp nhận những khó khăn của hiện tại". Chỉ một câu này là đủ để mình thích nhân vật Oomiya này rồi.
Tooko khuyên nhủ Akutagawa qua vở kịch:
Tất cả chúng ta đều đang bị trói buộc bởi rất nhiều thứ. Bởi gia đình, bạn bè, người yêu, bởi sự giận dữ, niềm vui, nỗi buồn và sự căm hận.
Chàng có lẽ đang nghĩ rằng tất cả những thứ đó đều rất quan trọng đối với con người, nếu chặt đứt chúng, con người sẽ không thể sống tiếp được. Tuy nhiên, con người vì cắt đứt sợi dây rốn nối họ với mẹ mình mới có thể được sinh ra trên cõi đời này. Nếu không chặt đứt quá khứ đang ràng buộc mình, ta sẽ không thể tiến về tương lai được.
Chỉ khi thử phá hủy tất cả, thử nếm trải cảm giác bị tổn thương, ta mới có thể biết đến những điều mới mẻ: nhìn thấy chút phong cảnh đang bị che lấp, nhận ra chút tâm tình đang bị trói buộc.
[...]
Cho dù là ai đi nữa thì chỉ cần là con người, họ cũng sẽ mang trong mình đau đớn, khổ sở, phiền não. Không con người nào lại chưa từng đau khổ. Trên đời này không tồn tại con người nào chưa từng thất bại!
Bởi vì tất cả chúng ta đều là những tên khờ!
[...]
Đằng nào chúng ta cũng là những tên khờ, vậy thì chúng ta hãy cứ là những tên khờ mang theo lý tưởng trong tim, là những tên khờ luôn tiến về phía trước không sợ hãi thất bại!
Khờ dại không có gì xấu cả. Chàng hãy cứ làm theo cách của chàng, nói ra mọi điều trong thâm tâm bằng chính âm thanh, ngôn ngữ, ý nghĩ và sự thành thật của chàng! Chàng hãy tự quyết định con đường mình đi bằng chính con tim mình!
November 3, 2025
Maybe it wasn't possible for people to live without hurting others. Maybe, as a species, we're just that stupid."You can't let your past paralyze your future" is an ongoing theme of this volume of Book Girl. Both Konoha and Akutagawa's outlooks improve as they recognize this, despite the awful things that have happened a few years ago, and more recently as the school festival looms near.
I felt moved by Tohko's speeches in the latter fourth of the book, as she consoles Konoha and adds a new monologue to the Literature Club's play based on the Showa-era novel Friendship. Some other scenes were evocative and striking: Konoha and Akutagawa eating oranges together on a bench, Kotobuki in the rain. I think Nomura is good at these more intimate scenes that build stronger bonds between her characters. Perhaps not coincidentally, none of these had anything to do with tortured romance.
I still feel there's something lacking here. The characters are constructed of very basic personality traits--stoic, tsundere, etc.--and trauma. I didn't particularly get a sense of any of the characters central to the Friendship analogue being full personalities, vs. puppets or constructs placed into the novel's roles. Mysterious Tohko is an exception, able to bring everything together because she's a "book girl" in its sense of either her being highly literate, or her consuming literature as food.
The trauma itself feels overblown. Are Japanese people really so willing to let things like stabbings or suicide attempts by teens get swept under the rug, with no substantial involvement by teachers, mental health counselors, or parents? Everybody has pain, their own burdens to bear, the story tells us. But I don't know. Sometimes young people need help dealing with problems this dire, going beyond "the power of friendship" that their age peers can provide. Not everybody has someone like Tohko close to hand: a teenaged wisewoman when the situation requires it. (and a possible chuunibiyo at other times.) I get it, a lot of YA puts adult characters well in the background so the young characters can shine.
This is the last of the three volumes of this series I picked up over ten years ago. I enjoyed this volume of Book Girl more than the other two, and appreciate that Konoha is acting more sympathetic toward Tohko. The Captive Fool ends at a decent place, showing us that . It isn't all that difficult to extrapolate from there, so I may just leave things as they are. As often happens with light novels, this was worth a read, but won't have a permanent place in my library.
January 25, 2024
What a sensational, addictive series... Keeps picking up steam, getting better and better!
If you enjoy slice of life, complex characters, intense emotionality and explorations of modern societal ills through the lenses of classic literature both Eastern and Western, this is a series not to sleep on. If only the graphic novels were available in English and the animation involved the entirety of episodes and storyline. The perfect blend of shockingly grim and heart-warming uplift, in the vein of, akin to a less graphic and traumatizing tone of series like Higurashi, Elfen Lied. Also very parallel to popular young adult English programming like Thirteen Reasons, Kids, Ginny and Georgia. Can't wait to read next volume, will be sad when I finish this series, highly recommended! Oh, and dang does this author know how to cliffhanger...
If you enjoy slice of life, complex characters, intense emotionality and explorations of modern societal ills through the lenses of classic literature both Eastern and Western, this is a series not to sleep on. If only the graphic novels were available in English and the animation involved the entirety of episodes and storyline. The perfect blend of shockingly grim and heart-warming uplift, in the vein of, akin to a less graphic and traumatizing tone of series like Higurashi, Elfen Lied. Also very parallel to popular young adult English programming like Thirteen Reasons, Kids, Ginny and Georgia. Can't wait to read next volume, will be sad when I finish this series, highly recommended! Oh, and dang does this author know how to cliffhanger...
March 13, 2021
Halfway into the book and I really want to scream "Stop torturing the poor kid author-san! How could you do this to an innocent eleven year old boy already suffering from undeserved guilt ever since he was old enough to know better?! And you still had to shred his heart to pieces like that!"
But of course I was being a hypocrite. These angst and emotional tortures are precisely what I love so much about this book. The theme friendship and how it unfolded between these two guilt-laden boys brought tears to my eyes every single time, and I'm really glad it ended in somewhat a bittersweet ending. That epilogue though, really borders grim-dark near future for our poor boys.
But of course I was being a hypocrite. These angst and emotional tortures are precisely what I love so much about this book. The theme friendship and how it unfolded between these two guilt-laden boys brought tears to my eyes every single time, and I'm really glad it ended in somewhat a bittersweet ending. That epilogue though, really borders grim-dark near future for our poor boys.
September 9, 2018
Akutagawa và Konoha thật quá đáng thương.
Tập này có liên quan đến "Quả quýt"của Akutagawa Ryunosuke và "Tình bạn" của Mushanokouji Saneatsu. Dường như Asakura Miu đang chi phối tất cả, nhưng Amano Tooko chính là điểm đột phá.
Lối hành văn của Nomura Mizuki quá đỗi dịu dàng.
Thích nhất là khi Nanase tặng bánh quy cho Konoha. Sự kết hợp của các tác phẩm văn học nổi tiếng vào Slice of Life của những học sinh "bình thường" ở cao trung Seijou thật quá ấn tượng.
Tập này có liên quan đến "Quả quýt"của Akutagawa Ryunosuke và "Tình bạn" của Mushanokouji Saneatsu. Dường như Asakura Miu đang chi phối tất cả, nhưng Amano Tooko chính là điểm đột phá.
Lối hành văn của Nomura Mizuki quá đỗi dịu dàng.
Thích nhất là khi Nanase tặng bánh quy cho Konoha. Sự kết hợp của các tác phẩm văn học nổi tiếng vào Slice of Life của những học sinh "bình thường" ở cao trung Seijou thật quá ấn tượng.
July 3, 2022
Part 3 của series Cô gái văn chương. Tooko bắt được một học sinh nam đang cắt sách trong thư viện. Cô liền bắt hắn ta cùng Konoha, Takeda và Nanase diễn một vở kịch, kịch bản cũng chính là cuốn sách xuyên suốt tập này. Hóa ra nam sinh kia ngày xưa đã bị gái lừa, vì bị gái lừa mà đã đánh mất và làm tổn thương cô gái mình yêu. Hình như các nhân vật nam trong văn học Nhật ai cũng có vấn đề về thần kinh hết, đúng là vũ trụ văn học Nhật Bản.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 21, 2021
Câu chuyện lần này chẳng hiểu sao cứ khiến mình liên tưởng đến mấy bộ shoujo manga mình từng đọc dù nó có vẻ u ám hơn. Từ đầu đến cuối đều là không khí nặng nề, tâm trạng mình cũng trở nên u uất theo. Song nó lại cuốn hút đến kỳ lạ. Cái kết khiến mình chưng hửng và sợ hãi phải đọc tiếp. Nỗi đau của Konoha vẫn chưa thể dừng lại ư?
June 2, 2023
I thoroughly enjoyed this volume. It is a nice mix of mystery and possible romance. Having read three volumes, I am tempted to read the other five (I have two but the missing three may be hard to find).
June 25, 2017
Cốt truyện cảm động, nội tâm các nhân vật chính khá phức tạp.
July 23, 2017
Các nhân vật phức tạp, hơi khó hiểu
July 12, 2023
Just found out it's part of a series...
December 11, 2023
The story focus more on friendship and less on mystery. Which is good.
October 21, 2024
Câu chuyện dựa trên vở kịch Tình bạn của Mushanokouji Saneatsu, nhưng mà hong phải gu roài. Có vẻ như điều khiến mình ấn tượng chắc là khúc cuối, vì sắp mở ra một drama nữa... chà...
January 26, 2023
rất thích tập này, chắc tại thấy đồng cảm
March 17, 2021
The best book girl instalment I've read so far!
This time the gang is putting on a play and EVERYONE shows up and gets involved. It showcases Nomura's sensitive grasp on each of the characters, their desires and thoughts, and the secrets they can't share.
Of course, she also has such a keen grasp on high school, as an environment and as a way of living. While I doubt there are many high schoolers reading Chekhov or Osumi Dazai on their off-days, I know they're out there wondering if other people feel the way they do, if other people feel as fake as they do, and how they can be better. Y'know, teenager stuff.
While the ending of the book strikes me as trite (as do all Book Girl endings) it still resonates with me and I'm sure you'll like it too
Nomura's characters are so fine-tuned that it's sometimes difficult to see them grow, especially as each book mirrors not just the literature they examine but also the other books.
Resolutions and epiphanies repeat but I swear I saw something new in this book. Though I'll also swear I saw it in the past books too.
What John Greene does for women; creating vibrant adolescent-worlds that remind us of the time when we knew everything, that is what Nomura does for men. And she does it so damn well too.
This time the gang is putting on a play and EVERYONE shows up and gets involved. It showcases Nomura's sensitive grasp on each of the characters, their desires and thoughts, and the secrets they can't share.
Of course, she also has such a keen grasp on high school, as an environment and as a way of living. While I doubt there are many high schoolers reading Chekhov or Osumi Dazai on their off-days, I know they're out there wondering if other people feel the way they do, if other people feel as fake as they do, and how they can be better. Y'know, teenager stuff.
While the ending of the book strikes me as trite (as do all Book Girl endings) it still resonates with me and I'm sure you'll like it too
Nomura's characters are so fine-tuned that it's sometimes difficult to see them grow, especially as each book mirrors not just the literature they examine but also the other books.
Resolutions and epiphanies repeat but I swear I saw something new in this book. Though I'll also swear I saw it in the past books too.
What John Greene does for women; creating vibrant adolescent-worlds that remind us of the time when we knew everything, that is what Nomura does for men. And she does it so damn well too.
August 8, 2011
What will be the plot of the third Book Girl novel? Let's spin the Wheel of Tropes to find out. Could it be a class trip? Or a beach episode? Maybe Tanabata? No, looks like we're going to have a school festival.
It's like a law of nature -- as a Japanese light novel (anime, manga) series grows longer, the probability of a school festival occurring approaches 1. And sure enough, we only needed three volumes for Book Girl to reach that point. (I suppose Haruhi Suzumiya has this beat since they filmed "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00" in the second book, but we didn't actually get to the festival until volume 6.)
So the story opens with Tohko deciding the Literature Club should put on a play for the school festival. Great idea, except for the part where the club only has two members, herself and Konoha. But Tohko is undaunted, and she quickly rounds up a cast -- the world's most adorable sociopath, Chia Takeda, champion tsundere Nanase Kotobuki, and the stalwart cardboard cutout Kazushi Akutagawa.
Up until this point in the series, Akutagawa hasn't been given much to do but be Konoha's stalwart friend. Except Konoha reminds us at the start of the book that he's too emo to have friends, and Akutagawa is just this guy he talks to in class so no one will notice his many mental problems. Which is too bad because Akutagawa could really use a friend to help him through ... well, that'd be spoiling too much, but this is a Book Girl novel, so you know there's going to be darkness and twisted psychology and catharsis through literature.
As for Kotobuki, she's not given much to do this time -- Nomura even apologizes in the afterword and promises she'll play a bigger role in the next book. By the end of the last book she had mellowed towards Konoha, but she's back to full tsun-tsun mode when this volume opens, though she does manage to have a conversation with him that doesn't end with calling him a jerk. We even get an idea of why she gets mad at him so easily, though it sadly indicates that she doesn't realize what she's dealing with in him.
Takeda likewise doesn't have a big role, but she's quite memorable. At first I was worried she was being flanderized as she seemed like a perfectly normal and happy teenage girl in her first few appearances, but then she gets a moment alone with Konoha and says, "No, still a sociopath. But I've gotten better at faking emotions." She's so cuuuuute!
For a Book Girl novel, this is almost light and fluffy. By which I mean, there's . Hey, by Mizuki Nomura standards, this is practically a Judy Garland musical.
It's like a law of nature -- as a Japanese light novel (anime, manga) series grows longer, the probability of a school festival occurring approaches 1. And sure enough, we only needed three volumes for Book Girl to reach that point. (I suppose Haruhi Suzumiya has this beat since they filmed "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina Episode 00" in the second book, but we didn't actually get to the festival until volume 6.)
So the story opens with Tohko deciding the Literature Club should put on a play for the school festival. Great idea, except for the part where the club only has two members, herself and Konoha. But Tohko is undaunted, and she quickly rounds up a cast -- the world's most adorable sociopath, Chia Takeda, champion tsundere Nanase Kotobuki, and the stalwart cardboard cutout Kazushi Akutagawa.
Up until this point in the series, Akutagawa hasn't been given much to do but be Konoha's stalwart friend. Except Konoha reminds us at the start of the book that he's too emo to have friends, and Akutagawa is just this guy he talks to in class so no one will notice his many mental problems. Which is too bad because Akutagawa could really use a friend to help him through ... well, that'd be spoiling too much, but this is a Book Girl novel, so you know there's going to be darkness and twisted psychology and catharsis through literature.
As for Kotobuki, she's not given much to do this time -- Nomura even apologizes in the afterword and promises she'll play a bigger role in the next book. By the end of the last book she had mellowed towards Konoha, but she's back to full tsun-tsun mode when this volume opens, though she does manage to have a conversation with him that doesn't end with calling him a jerk. We even get an idea of why she gets mad at him so easily, though it sadly indicates that she doesn't realize what she's dealing with in him.
Takeda likewise doesn't have a big role, but she's quite memorable. At first I was worried she was being flanderized as she seemed like a perfectly normal and happy teenage girl in her first few appearances, but then she gets a moment alone with Konoha and says, "No, still a sociopath. But I've gotten better at faking emotions." She's so cuuuuute!
For a Book Girl novel, this is almost light and fluffy. By which I mean, there's . Hey, by Mizuki Nomura standards, this is practically a Judy Garland musical.
July 19, 2013
This entry was a little confusing at times, but ultimately this volume continued the high quality of storytelling that I've come to expect from this series.
First let me go into what I found occasionally confusing about Captive Fool. I think that this was the first volume where I could tell that this was first published chapter by chapter in a magazine. Why? Because each chapter had a cliffhanger/teaser element to it that didn't entirely illuminate what had been previously mentioned. I'd probably chalk this up to the letters by Akutagawa more than anything else. This isn't really a spoiler, as the book makes it very clear early on that these are written by him, but I'll refrain from commenting overly much on their content.
The problem is that while the letters do a very good job of showing how scattered, manic, and occasionally depressive his thoughts are, they're also confusing. This might have been done on purpose at times, but occasionally I thought that they sort of took more away from the story than they added to it.
In the end I think that this volume was more of a way to begin the introduction of Miu, the girl that has haunted Konoha for so long. She isn't introduced here, but the elements here make Konoha think of her more than ever- which didn't go unnoticed by the people around him. It reinforces that I think that Nanase is ultimately the best girl for him as opposed to Tohko. Our Book Girl might be better for him writing-wise, but Nanase is the person who I think would really support him emotionally in the long run.
I'd definitely recommend this for fans of light novels and the series, although I would say that they start with the first volume. You can read this without really losing out on much from the previous volumes, as those were mostly just there to introduce the main cast of characters and overlying plot arc of Konoha's past. However at the same time, there are small subtle things that readers might miss out on that would make a fairly big difference in how this book plays out for them.
First let me go into what I found occasionally confusing about Captive Fool. I think that this was the first volume where I could tell that this was first published chapter by chapter in a magazine. Why? Because each chapter had a cliffhanger/teaser element to it that didn't entirely illuminate what had been previously mentioned. I'd probably chalk this up to the letters by Akutagawa more than anything else. This isn't really a spoiler, as the book makes it very clear early on that these are written by him, but I'll refrain from commenting overly much on their content.
The problem is that while the letters do a very good job of showing how scattered, manic, and occasionally depressive his thoughts are, they're also confusing. This might have been done on purpose at times, but occasionally I thought that they sort of took more away from the story than they added to it.
In the end I think that this volume was more of a way to begin the introduction of Miu, the girl that has haunted Konoha for so long. She isn't introduced here, but the elements here make Konoha think of her more than ever- which didn't go unnoticed by the people around him. It reinforces that I think that Nanase is ultimately the best girl for him as opposed to Tohko. Our Book Girl might be better for him writing-wise, but Nanase is the person who I think would really support him emotionally in the long run.
I'd definitely recommend this for fans of light novels and the series, although I would say that they start with the first volume. You can read this without really losing out on much from the previous volumes, as those were mostly just there to introduce the main cast of characters and overlying plot arc of Konoha's past. However at the same time, there are small subtle things that readers might miss out on that would make a fairly big difference in how this book plays out for them.
January 7, 2015
Yet another good installment in one of my favorite series! I liked the angle on friendship that this book deals with. I also like the relationship between Akutagawa and Konaha, as well as with Tohko, that is developing. Out of all the tragedies that have been presented in this series, the one in this novel feels the most real. Just people refusing to deal with the past out of guilt, but with the promise of hope in the future. The mystery in this book was the easiest to follow so far, and it had some genuinely chilling moments as well. Good characters, though I do think Nanase is the least interesting out of all of them. Even Takeda from the first novel comes back, and there's some really heartwrenching call-backs to her psyche, reminding the reader of the masks that each character wears throughout the series. I think the ending in this novel was the best one of the series so far, in that it actually tries to be hopeful about the future, while also hinting at an unsettling character return in a later episode. I actually cried at the end! All in all, a very good third installment to an intriguing series.
December 8, 2012
Ehhh. This book is okay but that's it, it was just okay. Also I don't understand why there's so much pointless fanservice. (I mean I dislike fanservice period but at least in manga/anime I know why authors are putting it in). Why would you even have Konoha be like 'and then...a panty shot!' when you're writing a novel? X_x
Anyways basically the series is okay and okayness doesn't stand up too great when there's gratuitous stuff like that. I'm kinda annoyed though because I don't like it enough to go buy the rest but if I'm halfway through I want to finish it. :/ Maybe I should try to talk the local librarians into buying the series. 2.5 stars
Anyways basically the series is okay and okayness doesn't stand up too great when there's gratuitous stuff like that. I'm kinda annoyed though because I don't like it enough to go buy the rest but if I'm halfway through I want to finish it. :/ Maybe I should try to talk the local librarians into buying the series. 2.5 stars
July 11, 2022
Khi đọc thì mình không thể ngừng được vì những bí ẩn cứ xoáy đi xoáy lại để chờ được giải đáp. Nhưng một khi bỏ truyện xuống là không muốn động vào để đọc tiếp luôn. Trong lúc không đọc đấy, mình đã dự định là sẽ ngừng series này ở đây vì văn phong cứ như tự sự, cốt truyện độc đáo nhưng không đủ cuốn.
Thế là mình cầm lên và cố lết cho hết. Và sau khi lết xong thì mình quất luôn tập 4 🙂
Mình cũng không hiểu lí do nữa, nhưng thôi kệ, chiến thôi :)
Thế là mình cầm lên và cố lết cho hết. Và sau khi lết xong thì mình quất luôn tập 4 🙂
Mình cũng không hiểu lí do nữa, nhưng thôi kệ, chiến thôi :)
October 21, 2011
I was quite happy with the third installment of the series. The characters seems to be developing at a good pace (though this book has makes me want to know how the whole series will end.) Quite an unexpected twist at the end.
September 19, 2011
Just love this series.
September 10, 2011
I could eat books. I understand what Anne Shirley meant when she said she would rather make people cry. I enjoyed the first two books in this series but this volume, the third, stole my heart.
November 3, 2012
This volume is, I think, my favourite out of the so far published ones. It had both romance and mystery; perfect. Bonus points for more about Miu Asakura.
July 12, 2014
Cuốn này nhiều hint 8-}
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