Jinushi

I shouldn't like this series as much as I do.

First, it's about smoking. Filthy habit! Ugh! Why?!?! Fortunately, it's not a scratch-and-sniff book.

Second, it has an age-gap, May-September romance and that usually causes a knee-jerk "nuh-uh" from me. But the slow burn of it crept up on me like a frog sitting in a gradually heating pot of water.

Third, this is a manga built around a really thin and stupid premise stretched way beyond credibility, like Clark Kent's decades-long fooling of Lois Lane with a pair of glasses bad. But, I don't know, I just liked the characters so much that as with Kent and Lane I'm just gonna run with it.

Happily, my library has the next two volumes on hold, so I'm getting in line for them.… (meer)