I really wanted to love this one. Especially since for most of the story I was loving it. I ate up all the messiness of these characters and the dark secrets they have hidden. But there was some aspects of the story that hit different with American culture like the age gaps and exactly what we believe a marriage proposal to be. Not trying to give too many spoilers but some of the relationships gave the story a weird vibe. The last explanation was done to the point that it took away from the story instead of clarifying because it belabored the issue. So, even though I loved the majority of the book the ending really ruined things for me. 5 stars for the beginning but 1 star for that ending. 3 stars it is.

Not sure if it's simply a case of something being lost in translation, but this was difficult to follow and not very interesting.

Certain phrases were repeated over and over again - mainly "in other words". The physics of how the time loop works was explained excessively too. All that plus the intentional repetition of the time loops just ended up with this being excruciating to get through.

Perhaps it's much better in the original Japanese, but this was a miss for me.