The New York Times bestselling teen romance series featuring volumes 7-9 combined into one oversized edition. Fans will be delighted to reconnect with bookworm Takao Kasuga, pretty and smart Nanako Saeki, and class weirdo Sawa Nakamura as these characters navigate middle school, love, finding their own identities, and Baudelaire’s poetry.

After the climactic incident during the festival, we are sent to a completely new locale, 3 years later. Takao and Nakamura have beenforcibly separated. Takao is now living with his parents in the suburbs of the big city, and they mostly act like a normal, happy family.Takao is in a new school, and a typical middling student. And while he’s as awkward as ever, he’s made some friends. Even moreintriguingly-Takao may have found a girl to open up to. As with Nakamura, this girl can see there’s more to Takao than meets the eye. But this time, she’s the one who reintroduces him to literature…