I find the story telling to be a bit messy... and theres a lot of time in the novel spent on the characters that aren't the MCs... So im all for a the daydreamer/matchmaker vibes from the MC but the transition between her ideas and whats actually going on feels a little clumsy and it took me too entirely long to figure out what was going on... I'm also unsure how to respond to her talking about being dead at the end of highschool... I can't tell if its suicidal or just talking about shutting down the real her and being a shell... either way its hard to back the novel in the way that it seems to barely be addressed in novel 1. ( )

Overwrought by an engagement forced upon her by her father, aspiring artist Kokoro vows to her best friend Amami that she will spend the last months of her senior year in high school sketching nothing but women loving women. As she secretly draws strangers across cafes or train cars, she spins a love story for them from her imagination, and then the point of view changes to that of the unwitting models and we are witness to their actual loves, crushes and losses. While Kokoro is resigned to this situation, Amami quietly looks for some way to break Kokoro's engagement for her own benefit.

It's an engaging meld of a serial with a short story anthology. I do hope we'll revisit some of the sketchbook characters down the road though, as most of their stories are more interesting than Kokoro's. ( )