Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime by Mizuki Nomura

This is an odd, sometimes creepy, but ultimately pretty endearing light novel, and the first of a series, I believe. Konoha Inoue is a listless writer who’s lost his interest in writing, but has been essentially abducted into his school’s book club by Tohko Amano, who appears to be a prize student, but actually a book eating demon for whom different types of stories have different flavors, and she makes him write her stories for her meals. (Handwritten stories taste better than typed ones.)


The plot revolves around a younger classmate asking Amano to write love letters for her to give to her crush, and his getting involved with her story, which eventually leads to letters from a suicidal boy and a possible murder mystery. The framing story is light and fun with endearing leads, but the love letter plot, which drives the book, starts light but becomes increasingly dark and even a bit creepy and depressing at times. I hope Yen plans to put out more.