irl_bookworms 's review for:

Yagi the Bookshop Goat by Fumi Furukawa

3.0

funny lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was an adorable and light Yaoi manga that had a really interesting world, but not much depth beyond it. Yagi is a goat who likes to eat books and can taste the stories inside and the feelings of the authors. Ookami is his Wolf manager at the bookstore. A hidden backstory and love ensues between an adorable herbivore and a gruff but sweet carnivore.

You’ll get what you want from a yaoi, a cute story with some steamy times, but there’s not much to make you really connect to or route for the characters. Which is unfortunate, because the author created a really interesting world with separated but co-existing herbivores and carnivores - almost like Beastar vibes, but it didn’t end up going anywhere.

Short, sweet, Yagi the Bookshop Goat is not a fave, but I still had a good time.

*I received an eARC from TOKYOPOP, LOVE x LOVE & NetGalley in exchange for my honest review*