You Will Drown in Love is the follow up story to You Will Fall in Love but these two stories are actually happening at the same time. If you haven’t yet read You Will Fall in Love, this one will be a touch confusing. In fact, it’s been awhile since I read the prequel and found I was even getting confused.
You Will Drown in Love involves Reiichiro, who is Tsukasa’s brother and Haru’s former best friend and rival in archery, and Jinnai, his employee when he takes over the family business. Jinnai was certain he was next in line to become manager and is none too happy when the owner’s son waltzes in out of nowhere to take over his coveted position. To make matters worse, Reiichiro is a terrible sales person and continually drives away the customers. The rest of the story revolves around these two and Reiichiro dealing with the budding relationship between his brother and best friend, which is occurring in You Will Fall in Love.
Plot wise, it’s a cute story but if I’m being honest, You Will Fall in Love was better. After reading “Fall”, I really wanted to read “Drown” to see what happens with Reiichiro. I don’t really feel all that fulfilled. If you read “Fall” and found yourself curious about Reiichiro’s story, then go ahead and pick it up but I don’t feel like you’re missing much. If you haven’t read this series at all, go read my other review and decide from there if you want to invest in it. I did find this follow up to be a bit more explicit than the prior but I wouldn’t call it an “explicit” title. The characters are definitely sexy and seeing Reiichiro in his archery gear and his kimono definitely sexy! Translation and readability seemed on par with the prior release.
