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Book Girl And The Captive Fool (2011)

by Mizuki Nomura(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0316076937 (ISBN13: 9780316076937)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Yen On

series

Book Girl

review 1: The third book of the Bungaku Shoujo series keep the plot going and going. As stated in the first book, Konoha was a famous author and a girl presuming it's his girlfriend, committed suicide. The back story of Konoha made me realize that this was going to be very important in the future books. If you read the epilogue, you will UNDERSTAND why. The ending makes you want to read the fourth book. If you watch the movie, you know you HAVE to read the fifth book. The supporting characters of the third book stole the show. Well, Tohko is always amazing but the play made her even more of the bungaku shoujo she is.
review 2: This entry was a little confusing at times, but ultimately this volume continued the high quality of storytelling that I've come to expect from th... moreis series. First let me go into what I found occasionally confusing about Captive Fool. I think that this was the first volume where I could tell that this was first published chapter by chapter in a magazine. Why? Because each chapter had a cliffhanger/teaser element to it that didn't entirely illuminate what had been previously mentioned. I'd probably chalk this up to the letters by Akutagawa more than anything else. This isn't really a spoiler, as the book makes it very clear early on that these are written by him, but I'll refrain from commenting overly much on their content. The problem is that while the letters do a very good job of showing how scattered, manic, and occasionally depressive his thoughts are, they're also confusing. This might have been done on purpose at times, but occasionally I thought that they sort of took more away from the story than they added to it. In the end I think that this volume was more of a way to begin the introduction of Miu, the girl that has haunted Konoha for so long. She isn't introduced here, but the elements here make Konoha think of her more than ever- which didn't go unnoticed by the people around him. It reinforces that I think that Nanase is ultimately the best girl for him as opposed to Tohko. Our Book Girl might be better for him writing-wise, but Nanase is the person who I think would really support him emotionally in the long run. I'd definitely recommend this for fans of light novels and the series, although I would say that they start with the first volume. You can read this without really losing out on much from the previous volumes, as those were mostly just there to introduce the main cast of characters and overlying plot arc of Konoha's past. However at the same time, there are small subtle things that readers might miss out on that would make a fairly big difference in how this book plays out for them. less

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