by Yoshiki Nakamura, 187 pages Kyoko has goofed and gotten Ren's birthday wrong (through no fault of her own), so his present will arrive a few days late...just in time for Valentine's Day. With chocolates to make for her friends and coworkers, she'd be busy enough, but she's also got a box of hate-chocolates (it's complicated) to give to one of her tormentors. The result? Misunderstandings, mayhem, and hilarity, of course.
I laughed out loud all the way through this volume. Nakamura's knack for snark and for pushing her characters' buttons continues to impress. No one is safe! Pointed asides--verbal and visual, both--keep the reader on her toes and in stitches from first page to last. Poor Kyoko! Poor Ren! (And I can't believe I'm saying this) poor Sho! The detested Beagle (he of the hate-chocolates) gleefully spawns chaos in his blackmailed crush's life; and the reader can't thank him enough, because it's so much fun. :D
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