I received this book from Netgalley/Ize Press in exchange of an honest review.

WOW, what a fricking ride was this! I already had my eyes on this one thanks to anime/manga news + Twitter and I am so happy I got accepted on Netgalley to read this one early. Because this was stunning!

Meet Sori Lee, a girl with not the easiest past, she is trying to get acquainted with her new school but she has some serious trust issues (which I could fully understand). When she searches for a tissue she finds a letter instead and that leads her on a scavenger hunt throughout the school in which she meets a friend, learns all about school, her classmates, and more. I really loved Sori Lee, she was such a fun and sweet character and I loved seeing her open up more and more to her classmates and find her happiness. And I love also finding out more about her past, especially in the last part which is a vital piece of the puzzle. And yes, I am keeping it all vague, haha.

We also meet Dongsoon, a grumpy-ish stand-offish boy who was sorta a friend (well OK, he may say no, but they were definitely friends) with Hyeon! At first I wasn’t such a fan of him, but as the story continued and we saw more of him? I started to really like him and I was so happy when he started to open up and also went to help out with the letters.

I just LOVED seeing how everything got together. How it was first seemingly an introduction for Sori Lee to her new school, but then it grew into a friendship with a friend from Hyeon along with them finding letters together, figuring clues out together, and then the last part in which revelations are made that had me crying, tearing up, and I just LOVED it. I hadn’t expected it to go this deep. This far and I am just so happy. That last page (before the epilogue/extra bit), LOVE LOVE. But also so much tears!

I am also so happy for Sori Lee that she was able to make happy memories at a new school in the place she used to live. From the beginning of the book we see that things were OK, until she choose to help out a friend from bullying. From that moment things just went all wrong. Leading to her friend transferring and Sori Lee also deciding to go because it was better. Throughout the book we do see Sori Lee wonder if she made the right decision. Was it really up to her to step up? Did she wound her friend by doing so? I love that we got a conclusion to that as well. It wasn’t just a loose bit, no it got tied up and that also made me so emotional.

The art was really gorgeous, I love the style, plus I love everything was in colour!

I am not entirely sure how I felt about the added magical element, but it wasn’t too much there so I didn’t mind it entirely though it felt a bit weird in the kind of story we have.

The only thing I wasn’t a fan of was the chapter titles. Going by those I expected a letter per chapter, but that is not how it works. I would have rather preferred the chapter names to be normal ones, this confused me!

Oh, and that bully dude? He can just fuck off. He did give some extra tension, plus he was fundamental in Dongsoon’s backstory but still, he frustrated me too much.

All in all, despite some confusion in regards to the chapters, this was a gorgeous, stunning, wonderful read and I loved meeting Sori and Dongsoon and see how they are connected to Hyeon! Be prepared to cry because it will get emotional!