Ahhh, how much I wanted to love this series, but I just couldn't.

I'll go straight to the problem: pacing and characters.

For the most part, the story is slow, that in and of itself is not a problem, it allows the reader to become attached to the characters and understand them. Which in turns yields a more rewarding story, especially in romance. The problem is that at a certain point the story drags out to a painfully slow pace where the author does everything within their power to stop the story from progressing. The story would have been perfectly fine being 10 chapters shorter.

Adding insult to injury, the ending is then rushed. With the characters revealing their feelings in a ridiculous cliche moment and tieing all loose ends in just 3 chapters.

As for the characters, they are perfectly fine during most of the story, but towards the end, it feels as if I'm reading about two completely new people **SPOILERS AHEAD** Yanagi goes from being the guy that wants to prove himself by his own merits and who wants to be there for his love to being a clingy love-struck moron. Meanwhile, Kujou goes from being a girl who is learning how to relate to others and who is discovering her love for Yanagi to being cold and distant. **END OF SPOILERS** I don't think the way they behave towards the end is unrealistic or bad, but I do feel like they are completely different characters to the ones that they had been before and there is no progression from A to B to bridge the gap.