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Pretty much everyone before me has said that this one is really cute, but... it really is. There's an earnestness to the story here that is very charming, and which keeps it enjoyable all throughout even as the writing occasionally stumbles.

Speaking of, I think my main critique here would be the matter of specificity - there's quite a few scenes where I feel like the details that the story hangs on don't really help build the world any further, but rather bog it down somewhat. The cafe scene's already been mentioned in this regard, so I'll point to the scene of the customers in the bookstore as an example - we hang on Tyler fulfilling six different customers' requests for books, but due to how the story is written, it winds up feeling somewhat flat - while the portrayal of the job can serve to make the world and the bookstore feel more lived in, it feels like we're being told a checklist of events in a dry manner, rather than experiencing the world through Tyler's eyes. It feels like many of the details here could have been smoothed over to make way for the emotional core of the scene - it doesn't really matter what the customers are ordering, as much as it matters that a sudden influx of customers has arrived after a dry spell. 

I do want to praise the art and music here, though - they're both quite varied, with there being many custom tracks and quite a few CGs, which help keep the reading experience fresh all throughout. The artstyle especially is quite charming, and really helps add to the atmosphere of the work.

All in all, an entertaining read, in spite of a few hiccups here and there with the writing.