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Surpresa extremamente agradável. A escrita do autor é super fluída e apesar da história ser extremamente simples, não consegui largar o livro. Na minha singela opinião, a ambientação é um dos pontos altos dessa obra: senti que estava sentada no café "Funiculi Funicula" olhando a trama acontecendo diante dos meus olhos e com uma xícara de café em mãos. Enfim, uma ótima leitura pra quem está cansado de ler mais do mesmo. Vale a pena dar uma chance pros autores que fogem do eixo EUA-Europa.

closet_bibliophile's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

This book really suffered because of the translation. The writting is very much hit or miss but I've heard that it's because of the expressions and words in Japanese that just don't tend to exist in other languages.

Also there's quite a few mistakes in here, both those facts make the reading g experience kinda tough.

All in all, I think its a decent book but I don't think it'll be one I re-read. It didn't quite capture and hold my attention as I read and I found myself skipping over some descriptions as it sometimes got too repetitive. Also if you want to enjoy this book you will probably have to get past the first story which is clunky and genuinely hard to get into, the stories improve as you progress.

katiet_k's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

saedith's review against another edition

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3.5

If this book wasn't hyped so much, I'm not sure i would've continued past the first story. The writing is really simple and clunky, and it really bothered me. The rest of the stories are much better, but overall I don't think it lived up the hype. It's such a cool concept and I did enjoy the stories but the writing style just wasn't for me. Unsure if I'll pick up the sequels.

nyctose's review against another edition

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1.0

I liked the idea behind this book. But the book itself? Not so much.
The writing felt a bit stilted and I am not sure whether it was because of the translation or the original book was written like that. Also I couldn’t bring myself to care much for the characters since we were jumping from the pov of one character to the next. Plus the book was short and didn’t focus too much time exclusively on any one character. So while their stories were told, we moved on before being attached to them.
All in all this book tries to be profound and impart these big lessons about life but these lessons failed to leave an emotional impact since the writing was so stilted and the characters quite one dimensional and underdeveloped.
The Miracles of The Namiya General Store did a better job.

ella23's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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