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Love Like The Falling Petals Novel Review

As we enter peak cherry blossom season, the critically acclaimed romance novel Love Like the Falling Petals by Keisuke Uyama is a necessary read to gain a new understanding of this transient...
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The Bride of Demise (Light Novel Review)

Ever since their mysterious eruption from ancient ruins, mechanical monsters called kihei have been threatening to wipe out humanity. Kou Kaguro and his classmates at the Twilight Academy military school might be...
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My Happy Marriage (Light Novel Review)

Miyo Saimori lives a Cinderella lifestyle as the de facto servant of her abusive family. Neglected by her father and stepmother in favour of her younger half-sister Kaya, Miyo is resigned to...
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Tearmoon Empire (Light Novel Review)

Tearmoon Empire begins with 20-year-old Princess Mia being led to the guillotine. Her short life has been defined by frivolous spending and neglect of the common people, and now she's about to...
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I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss (Light Novel Review)

“You see, this world is an otome game that existed in my previous life . . . I am, as they say, the rival who exists to be vanquished . . ....
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Sabikui Bisco (Light Novel Review)

A humble pilgrim at a border checkpoint peruses a poster of notorious criminal Bisco Akaboshi, wanted for wreaking havoc throughout a post-apocalyptic Japan. When a guard interrogates the pilgrim about crossing the...
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Spy Classroom, Vol. 1: Lily of the Garden (Light Novel Review)

In an alternate setting vaguely similar to Cold-War-era Europe, seventeen-year-old Lily is in danger of flunking out of an elite spy training program. Suddenly, she's assigned to a specialized team named Lamplight...
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Bond and Book: The Devotion of The Surgery Room (Light Novel Review)

Bond and Book: The Devotion of "The Surgery Room" by Mizuki Nomura is an episodic short story collection with a strange premise. Its protagonist, a teenage boy named Musubu, can talk to...
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The Detective Is Already Dead (Light Novel Review)

"Say this daily routine of mine—of ours—and all the little bits and pieces that aren’t routine happened to be a story. If there were people who were hoping that story would be...