This is a new edition in their crochet series. It is great for the beginner, as well as the advanced learner. It shows the tools to use, the yarn weights, how to read a pattern and chart, and lots of patterns to try.

The second book in the series focuses on the journey to find Nick’s father and understand their destiny.

This volume is quite sad an does some jumping from the past to the present. Akiko is totally slacking off in college that she worked so hard to get into. She feels like she can't create anymore. Her sensei comes to visit her and yells a bit. She freaks out an does home. It is really sad. That's how the volume ends.

Great backstory of the Queen of Hearts!

This book was wonderful and taught me a lot about growing up. It was a beautiful story.

The running gag of people mistaking one of the girls for a boy because she's called the Prince and nobody bothers to correct them is really cute. Nobody is that fussed about Kashima wearing a boy's uniform or surprised that the other girls like to spend time with her. She's just doing her thing, and the only reason anyone has a problem with her is that she's usually late for her after school activity. The excitement high schoolers would have for a pillow fight where you actually fight was the sort of reaction that would get people in class in trouble.

This volume started off with a sad flashback and ended with a heartwarming hug. "What is happiness?" "Something that warms your heart."

Quick Read! Real insight into historical and cultural events I remember hearing about on the news when I was younger

In this volume Nana gets swept up in love for the first time. We also learn that something happened between Yamamoto and Yano. "I wonder if there's a limit to love."

I feel like translated stories are hard to rate, and from the notes, Akutagawa's style is especially hard to convey in English. Most of the stories were probably more engaging in Japanese, but Goi's pain in Yam Gruel was too real.