Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao
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• love triangle • insta-love • mystery • action packed • soul-stirring emotion • magical realism • life lessons •
Review
Water Moon was my first jump into Japanese fiction, and to be honest was unlike anything I have read before. The romance was lackluster, being brutally honest, but the scenery and the world building was what really made this book stand out for me. All the magical elements present, such as the birds formed by a person’s regret, pearls that can hold one’s memories, puddles that can take you to other places and that time is apparently something that can be traded or brought was fascinating to read.
“Books do not find value when they’re written, they find value when they’re read. Every book here is both worthless and priceless at the same time. It depends on who you ask. As I have not yet had the pleasure of reading half of the library’s collection I can say that only the books that I’ve taken from shelf and stored in heart are truly precious.”
“Unanswered questions were like boxes you never opened, their contents vanishing and reappearing, stretching and contracting, being nothing and everything all at once.”
“In reality, it was the choices that people didn’t even realize they were making that set the course of their lives.”
“Happiness has little to do with what you have, and everything to do with what you do not.”
Thank you @librofm for this amazing ALC. your kindness is always appreciated.
Blurb
A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical journey when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike and enchanting fantasy novel.
On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones—those who are lost—will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.
Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it.
Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice—by way of rain puddles, rides on paper cranes, the bridge between midnight and morning, and a night market in the clouds.
But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own—and risk making a choice that she will never be able to take back.
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