Yuuri Eda is a Japanese Light Novel writer. The genre of her works is Boys Love (BL). Her debut novel is「夏の塩」(2000). Yuuri Eda was one of the disciples of Azusa Nakajima ( 中島 梓, pen name of Kaoru Kurimoto / 栗本 薫. She uses the pen name 榎田ユウリ for her general audience (not BL) works. ※Her two names in Romanization are the same.
Like, I *knew* I was going to cry reading this. Which is why I pushed off reading it literally for years.
What I didn't know was how good this was.
As BL, this doesn't work 100%, and there are some minor things you stumble over that only prove this is an early work, but all that aside, this is an amazing story about life, love and death, and letting go. Absolutely beautiful and moving.
This is a let down compares to Uozumi-kun series, which was written before this book, so there's no excuse for how bad in terms of writing style the book is. I find it extremely hard to read this book due to the disproportionate amount of characters' dialogues. I know the MCs are high school kids, but man are these kids' conversations dulled. Everything sounds clumsy and forced to me, or too comic-ish if you will. Think again, maybe it's not simply because they're kids, maybe it's just because I dislike the characters' personalities, idk I just don't enjoy reading about them. Not recommend this at all.