When you hold hands

and spun enough times,
you could end up upside down.

The die has been cast! And now a new set of books has pulled on their hiking boots and trudged off to a new camp! ;)

A book trade, a set of dreams, as it were.

This was one of the ones that I traded with someone else to get the copies to trade with another person, to get ones I really wanted...

if that makes any sense. :P

XD

The box-o-trade-books arrived safely today - many thanks! This is one of many series that came to my attention via its TV Tropes page.

While the story features a lot of typical high-school-romance plots, it has some nice inversions on the typical tale. Among them: in school, Miyamura is a somber, boring student, while Hori is popular and attractive, but at home Hori ditches the fashions, ties her hair back, and gets to work tending house for her little brother (their parents' jobs keep them away from home for long periods) - and Miyamura turns out to be a pierced and tattooed charmer. Despite his rebel-look, he too seems to love being domestic, and he also hits it off with little brother Souta, who's a realistically-adorable (and troublesome) kid. Instant domesticity - except for those complications about their private personas vs. their public ones. So, yeah, lots of sit-com plotting here, with people going to rather silly lengths to hide aspects of themselves that don't really need hiding.

This kind of story needs more characters to keep it moving, of course. Cue Ishikawa, who's got a crush on Hori and becomes madly jealous of Miyamura when he notices that the two seem to be friends. And somehow (surprise!) he ends up becoming a friend and confidante of Miyamura too, while still wondering just what there is between Miyamura and Hori. And another girl is interested in Ishikawa, who's oblivious, leading to the usual romantic-entanglements chain, though it's fairly low-key here; I'm guessing this isn't meant to be a very angsty series, which is fine with me. Plot points center on such things as Hori trying to learn Miyamura's first name without admitting to him that she doesn't know it, or about what to do when Miyamura gets a bad cold... yeah, rather a gentle series here!

There's a bonus comic in which Ishikawa finds himself dreaming about a chibi-catboy version of Miyamura, much to his chagrin... very cute!

I left this book in the Little Free Library at around 3; hope the finder enjoys it!

*** Released as part of the 2016 Keep Them Moving release challenge. ***