Rascal Does Not Dream of His First Love

By: Hajime Kamoshida, Keji Mizoguchi, Andrew Cunningham - translator

Narrated by: Andrew Grace

UNDOING WHAT CAN’T BE UNDONE.Sakuta had been ready to give up his life, but nothing could have prepared him to keep living like this. Now he must find a way to carry on even when it feels like tomorrow will never come. And even if it does, why should he care when the love of his life is already gone? Of course, he can always count on Shouko to show him the way forward in his darkest hour, just like she did all those years ago. As he gathers the strength and courage Mai gave him, Sakuta readies himself to do whatever it takes to rewrite the past.

Tear jerker

This is by far the most emotional book of the series so far. Don't want to ruin it for anyone. Just read it and see for yourself.

Wow...just...wow.

Emotionally charged from the beginning to the very last word. If you've been following the series, you're gonna cry your eyes out...just keep going until the end. AMAZING ending.

Emotionally Draining

All the books in this series are quite emotional but this one was especially so. It was actually very hard for me to get through it, especially the beginning. I ended up taking breaks from it often and finally finished it while I was feeling depressed anyway. I'm glad I did. there is definitely a good payoff for the pain. However, I'm not so sure about the whole adolescent syndrome / pseudo time travel thing, to be honest. Even for pseudo science, it felt like the explanations have been growing thinner and thinner. I hope any future books in this series don't have this butterfly effect, time travel aspect to them. I'm not a fan.