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Bond and Book: The Devotion of "The Surgery Room"
A BOOK’S LOVE FOR ITS READER IS BOUNDLESS...
Musubu Enoki is an ordinary high schooler with an extraordinary ability—he can hear the voices of books. When he happens to notice one lost and crying, the young man sets out to reunite a children’s classic with its original owner. Musubu leaves no page unturned in his quest to assist tomes of all sorts, including “The Surgery Room” by classic Japanese author Kyōka Izumi. But can this advocate for books really make their dreams come true...? Find out in this bibliomystery you won’t want to put down!
Musubu Enoki is an ordinary high schooler with an extraordinary ability—he can hear the voices of books. When he happens to notice one lost and crying, the young man sets out to reunite a children’s classic with its original owner. Musubu leaves no page unturned in his quest to assist tomes of all sorts, including “The Surgery Room” by classic Japanese author Kyōka Izumi. But can this advocate for books really make their dreams come true...? Find out in this bibliomystery you won’t want to put down!
230 pages, Hardcover
First published September 14, 2021
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July 31, 2021
My thanks to NetGalley and Yen Press/Yen On for an eARC copy of this book to read and review.
This was most definitely weird. Not in a bad way, it had an interesting concept with the MC being able to hear books being able to speak.
There isn't much lead-up into the stories and I felt like I was jumping into book two without having read book one. Slightly unsettling.
I also didn't think the relationship between the MC and his "book girlfriend" was very healthy. He seemed fine with her threatening to curse him because he read other books and calling him a cheater when he did so, but I was not. Not to mention, he was human and she was a book.
This was interesting, it was different, but it was also very weird. I'm at a solid 2.5 stars and wish we had half-star options, as I don't think this is bad enough to warrant 2, but not quite good enough for 3. I'll tip up to 3, for the secondary characters and the love story at the end of the book. I would say it's worth a read and recommend to light novel and manga readers.
3, not sure if I'm going to continue reading this series or not but it's cute, stars.
This was most definitely weird. Not in a bad way, it had an interesting concept with the MC being able to hear books being able to speak.
There isn't much lead-up into the stories and I felt like I was jumping into book two without having read book one. Slightly unsettling.
I also didn't think the relationship between the MC and his "book girlfriend" was very healthy. He seemed fine with her threatening to curse him because he read other books and calling him a cheater when he did so, but I was not. Not to mention, he was human and she was a book.
This was interesting, it was different, but it was also very weird. I'm at a solid 2.5 stars and wish we had half-star options, as I don't think this is bad enough to warrant 2, but not quite good enough for 3. I'll tip up to 3, for the secondary characters and the love story at the end of the book. I would say it's worth a read and recommend to light novel and manga readers.
3, not sure if I'm going to continue reading this series or not but it's cute, stars.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 6, 2021
This title was a bit quirky for me. Our MC Musubu, can hear books talking, and he spends time helping the books any way that he can.
Where this book gets weird, is the fact that one of the books is his girlfriend... It was a little too far fetched, and she was an awful character. She constantly said manipulative and abusive things to him, and it just didnt work well for me.
Love this in theory, but I think something got lost in the translation with this one.
Where this book gets weird, is the fact that one of the books is his girlfriend... It was a little too far fetched, and she was an awful character. She constantly said manipulative and abusive things to him, and it just didnt work well for me.
Love this in theory, but I think something got lost in the translation with this one.
August 14, 2021
For this bookreview I will try to talk about the 5 different books in there first and then about my overall impression of 'Bond and Book'. *THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS.*
A happy, happy day for Pippi Longstocking: This story was the first of the 5 stories this book contains and I must say at first confused me. As Pipi Longstocking is a really famous childrens book (at least in europe there's no get around of knowing this book) I thought the story may turn out to be a middle grade book oriented to children around 10-12 year olds but then the main character Musubu appeared and turned out to be in first year of highschool (so probably he's 16). Although after some time I got the hang of the story and thought it kinda cute, it was easy to guess the plottwist and all in all the story was the perfect example of average to me. The idea of losing a beloved childrens book and having a childhood trauma connected to this book was a good trope though, That's why I would give this story a 3/5.
An Urgent Request from Steam from Another World - The Great Giggling Battle: The light novel in another light novel. For this story I feel like we had the polar opposite of the first story as it was describing the cover and story of this book as an ecchi harem light novel and with that for me the group this book speaks to changed as obviously hinting on halfnaked women and steamy scenes is not usually a book for a 12 year old. Again I liked the outcome of the story but considering the start of the story and the developement to the ending it was just really average, The idea of using his extremely popular senpai was also just too convenient for me and this is something that will continue through nearly all of these stories.
3/5
A Book No One Knows, Viewed Upside Down: This story finally picked me up. At first I was not sure abput this book disease and how it would work and turn out, but this was the first book that actually got me interested and kept me reading to get to know which book it was. While I think if the overall idea of the book might have been executed differently it would have had an even stronger effect, this was for me by far the best story in this book. Also the book in this story was a completely different genre as the books in the other two stories. 4/5
A Summer Running Wild with Fifteen Boys: Here we get to see a typical survival camp situation kind of, were they go on a deserted island and try to have some fun with it. We get a a few hints on the backstory of Haruto and Musubu, but again nobody speaks about what actually happened, The story was I feel like more of a filler. It was short, the storx itself not anywhere near as deep as the other ones and was basically just used to give the readers some hints but not enough to actually understand anything. Because of it lacking depths it's only a 2,5/5.
The Devotion of 'The Surgery Room': The last story of this book was different. While I feel it was the story whcih read the longest and was jumping a lot between times, it also had the most interesting ending. But just because It was interesting I can't say for sure thaat I thought it was good. But that s probably what the author intended as the story was about views of the society on couples where the partners have different backgrounds (i.e. age or status). Also pretty good was that we got to know the reactions of different characters which kinda had the effect of having a discussion with all the different view points laid out to you, I think for the construction this might have been the best story but for my personal taste it just did not pick me up as much as the third story did and the pacing just wasn't for me. 3.5/5
Okay, so now to my overall impression. I was really excited as I started this story, because the idea of hearing the voices of books and talking to books seemed extremly interesting. But for me the execution of that idea just wasn't used to its full potential in this book and kind of just turned into the most average book I've ever read. The thing is that even though I say it was average and easy to guess, it was written in such an easy way that I still sped through this book. The last story as I mentioned was a bit slower for me but it was still fine. So if you want an easy read I recommend it, it's just not so overwhelming plotwise.
Another thing that just was not for me was Pincess Yonaga and her whole character (she just annoyed me and made Musubu look like the most naive guy when he was all over her). And with that I want to mention another big problem for me with this book: Too many hints on background stories that never appeared! I don't know if this book will be turned into a series. After reading the afterword and looking up the authors books on goodreads I am pretty sure there is no book telling us the story of Princess Yonaga or the story of how Musubu saved Haruto's life. I would have appreciated if the story would have started with these because that might have given us some deeper understanding for the reaccuring characters.
Also I think this book is a collection of stories that were meant to be published one by one, or otherwise I don't understand why there is the need to explain the characters again in every single story.
I liked that the Afterword was translated as well because it explained at least a bit, but I still think that a big story part is missing.
Funny side note: The stories I liked better were also the books I would be interested to read. I actually have the book of the third story waiting on my tbr and I wished I had already read it so I could have guessed what book it was.
To end on a good note: I am interested in picking up other books by this author and see how everything is connected and maybe get a better understanding for the structure of his books.
3/5
A happy, happy day for Pippi Longstocking: This story was the first of the 5 stories this book contains and I must say at first confused me. As Pipi Longstocking is a really famous childrens book (at least in europe there's no get around of knowing this book) I thought the story may turn out to be a middle grade book oriented to children around 10-12 year olds but then the main character Musubu appeared and turned out to be in first year of highschool (so probably he's 16). Although after some time I got the hang of the story and thought it kinda cute, it was easy to guess the plottwist and all in all the story was the perfect example of average to me. The idea of losing a beloved childrens book and having a childhood trauma connected to this book was a good trope though, That's why I would give this story a 3/5.
An Urgent Request from Steam from Another World - The Great Giggling Battle: The light novel in another light novel. For this story I feel like we had the polar opposite of the first story as it was describing the cover and story of this book as an ecchi harem light novel and with that for me the group this book speaks to changed as obviously hinting on halfnaked women and steamy scenes is not usually a book for a 12 year old. Again I liked the outcome of the story but considering the start of the story and the developement to the ending it was just really average, The idea of using his extremely popular senpai was also just too convenient for me and this is something that will continue through nearly all of these stories.
3/5
A Book No One Knows, Viewed Upside Down: This story finally picked me up. At first I was not sure abput this book disease and how it would work and turn out, but this was the first book that actually got me interested and kept me reading to get to know which book it was. While I think if the overall idea of the book might have been executed differently it would have had an even stronger effect, this was for me by far the best story in this book. Also the book in this story was a completely different genre as the books in the other two stories. 4/5
A Summer Running Wild with Fifteen Boys: Here we get to see a typical survival camp situation kind of, were they go on a deserted island and try to have some fun with it. We get a a few hints on the backstory of Haruto and Musubu, but again nobody speaks about what actually happened, The story was I feel like more of a filler. It was short, the storx itself not anywhere near as deep as the other ones and was basically just used to give the readers some hints but not enough to actually understand anything. Because of it lacking depths it's only a 2,5/5.
The Devotion of 'The Surgery Room': The last story of this book was different. While I feel it was the story whcih read the longest and was jumping a lot between times, it also had the most interesting ending. But just because It was interesting I can't say for sure thaat I thought it was good. But that s probably what the author intended as the story was about views of the society on couples where the partners have different backgrounds (i.e. age or status). Also pretty good was that we got to know the reactions of different characters which kinda had the effect of having a discussion with all the different view points laid out to you, I think for the construction this might have been the best story but for my personal taste it just did not pick me up as much as the third story did and the pacing just wasn't for me. 3.5/5
Okay, so now to my overall impression. I was really excited as I started this story, because the idea of hearing the voices of books and talking to books seemed extremly interesting. But for me the execution of that idea just wasn't used to its full potential in this book and kind of just turned into the most average book I've ever read. The thing is that even though I say it was average and easy to guess, it was written in such an easy way that I still sped through this book. The last story as I mentioned was a bit slower for me but it was still fine. So if you want an easy read I recommend it, it's just not so overwhelming plotwise.
Another thing that just was not for me was Pincess Yonaga and her whole character (she just annoyed me and made Musubu look like the most naive guy when he was all over her). And with that I want to mention another big problem for me with this book: Too many hints on background stories that never appeared! I don't know if this book will be turned into a series. After reading the afterword and looking up the authors books on goodreads I am pretty sure there is no book telling us the story of Princess Yonaga or the story of how Musubu saved Haruto's life. I would have appreciated if the story would have started with these because that might have given us some deeper understanding for the reaccuring characters.
Also I think this book is a collection of stories that were meant to be published one by one, or otherwise I don't understand why there is the need to explain the characters again in every single story.
I liked that the Afterword was translated as well because it explained at least a bit, but I still think that a big story part is missing.
Funny side note: The stories I liked better were also the books I would be interested to read. I actually have the book of the third story waiting on my tbr and I wished I had already read it so I could have guessed what book it was.
To end on a good note: I am interested in picking up other books by this author and see how everything is connected and maybe get a better understanding for the structure of his books.
3/5
September 8, 2021
Thank you NetGalley and Yen Press for allowing me to review this book.
This light novel takes place in our world, which is a lot different than many of them out there.
The main character can hear the voice of books and even has a book girlfriend. She's a bit crazy in her jealousy and curses him constantly. It was a little weird and slightly disturbing.
The book is episodic in its chapters. Each tells a different story that introduces new characters in each. He listens to the books and helps them find her human or tries to save humans from being possessed by book stories.
It was an enjoyable book.
Thank you again NetGalley and Yen Press.
This light novel takes place in our world, which is a lot different than many of them out there.
The main character can hear the voice of books and even has a book girlfriend. She's a bit crazy in her jealousy and curses him constantly. It was a little weird and slightly disturbing.
The book is episodic in its chapters. Each tells a different story that introduces new characters in each. He listens to the books and helps them find her human or tries to save humans from being possessed by book stories.
It was an enjoyable book.
Thank you again NetGalley and Yen Press.
April 17, 2025
The book, the long goodbye of the last bookstore is actully set after this book, and maybe a few others. This book is about a kid, who can hear what books are saying. He uses the ability to solve crimes and other mysteries. There is even an island adventure, that's pretty funny. It's told through a series of interlocking short stories much like the previously mentioned book.
October 31, 2022
My rating for this book is 4.5 stars. Since I can't decide on whether to give it 4 or 5 I'm giving it something in the middle. But this was a fun and cute story. It was very emotional too. Especially towards the end of each chapter. I would definitely recommend it though.
February 26, 2022
This was a quick and easy read, but I'm still processing how I feel about a love story between a boy and a book.
May 10, 2022
The books was weird and entertaining
May 28, 2024
This is good but I think the second book in this series which I read first is better
May 10, 2025
Đại thần vẫn là đại thần 👏
May 30, 2025
My favorite of the stories is the first one which involves a well-read but now abandoned copy of Pippi Longstocking. Essentially this opening tale is a missing persons mystery. Who does the book remember and where have they gone?
My second favorite is a darker one involving a man seemingly possessed by the dark thoughts of a particular book. In this case, the mystery is the book's identity. What is it and why is it affecting him in such a way?
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/com...
My second favorite is a darker one involving a man seemingly possessed by the dark thoughts of a particular book. In this case, the mystery is the book's identity. What is it and why is it affecting him in such a way?
https://pussreboots.com/blog/2025/com...
June 30, 2023
和《文學少女》同一世界觀的作品，聖条學園一位能夠聽到書的聲音並和書對話，把所有書本都當作自己朋友的高一學生，藉由他的能力處理周遭人們，甚至是書本們黑暗、不可告人但真摯的煩惱與夢想。
目前已經出場過的舊角色有文學少女的姪子和文學少女負責的作家，期望之後還能看到更多新角色出現。
目前已經出場過的舊角色有文學少女的姪子和文學少女負責的作家，期望之後還能看到更多新角色出現。
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