Govind

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC! The art is great, and it's a quick read, but the story has some major drawbacks. There is a totally unnecessary rape subplot, and the character is shown as apologetic to the rapist. They could have avoided that and focused on the relationship between the leads. The book would have been so much better that way. The Russian historical setting, while interesting, is confusing and half-baked. Characters are sometimes shown living longer than they did in reality, mixing fact and fiction without clarification. The presence of a character profile area that doesn’t point this out adds to the confusion. A part near the end explaining the changes made versus reality happened would have helped a lot. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend going out and buying this book, but it’s an alright to read if you are borrowing it from someone.

This was a really fun, simple read. There isn’t much to complain about, and there is no unnecessary nudity that adds nothing to the story like the last ARC manga I read. Here, the art was great, it’s easy to read, and I loved the conversations the characters had. The characters have pretty good chemistry, and the author sprinkled in a fair share of cultural references and discussion about cars in a natural way to keep it interesting. There are surprisingly some very well done fourth wall breaks, and it was funny how the author justified a certain decision they took through that wall breaking. Overall, it is a decent book. Nothing too special, but it is not bad either.

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced review copy.