I feel as though I keep repeating myself, but this series is really just so charming! I can never decide who I like more: the ever-practical Rakan, who is unfazed by people falling into his garden but will whack someone for putting a foot on the table; Chigusa, who has absolutely no comprehension of human behavior whatsoever ("I'm trying to seduce ( Read more... )

This is embarrassingly late, and my other year-end posts will be even more so. It's so late that it's even late by the Lunar New Year ( Read more... )

This continues to be funny and touching and sweet, although Koh the talking snake is not quite as hilarious as he is in the first book (seriously, "The sky is blue!" still makes me giggle randomly ( Read more... )

Rakan's a fairly normal high school student with an unusual affinity for plants, until one day, he comes across an unconscious man in his garden who then proceeds to wake up and threaten him... with a flowering gun. As it turns out, Rakan looks exactly like the (evil) imperial prince from Chigusa's world (the formerly unconscious guy), but instead ( Read more... )