Book Review: One is Enough (Manga)

Book: One is Enough by Love Robert

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: Available now

Description:

Matsumoto-kun is just about to turn sixteen when he accidentally bumps into and injures his mysterious high school senpai, Mizushima-kun.

Now, he is bound to make it up to him. But the lines aren't clear on just how far this new angst-filled, steamy relationship will go?



Rating: 1 star

Review:

Lets see, this book has three things I can't stand: bad writing, annoying characters and obsessive insta-love.

It's bad enough that the writing is awful but the story wasn't interesting either. It's all just insta-love.

The story is about 16 years old freshman Yuu Matsumoto who after running into upperclassman Shizuku Mizushima instantly started falling in love with him. He was so obsessive that he didn't stop and think whether Shizuku was worth all of this obsessing over. Yuu was turning into a stalker and it wasn't helping this already terrible story. Yuu wasn't the only one with issues, Shizuku had closed off his feelings after a bad break-up and was not very receptive to Yuu constantly bombarding him with his feelings.

This was a complicated romance but the bad writing made the story nearly unreadable. The only time it seem like the author was really writing something good was when Matsumoto was having a difficult time trying to figure out his feelings and why he was feeling the things he was. And I thought the last few pages at the end were okay. But by then it feels like too little too late.

But other than that this was really an awful story. Perhaps if the cheesy writing and obsessive insta-love was toned down this could have been an interesting story. Because by the end you could finally start to see what made these characters tick and they weren't as annoying as much as they were initially but it was just too late by then.

I do wish this could have been a better read.