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SHARD: Book One of the Shard Trilogy
Kaia Davis has a real future in sight as she travels to France for a foreign exchange visit. She’s been passed around foster parents for almost all her life but none of those placements has stuck. But this experience might be the one to turn things around for her. Then she’s flagged as a terrorist on arrival at Charles de Gaulle airport only to be whisked away by another teenager, Connor, to a secret organisation where teens with special powers help rid the world of crime. Or something along those lines. It’s not long before she comes to know several peers who already seem like a real family to her.…
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the springtime of my life began with you
Suehiro is a first-year high school student that nobody really notices. She’s always got her head in a book and she doesn’t have any friends. Takasago is the outgoing and popular guy that’s been given the penalty game where has to ask out an unpopular girl. He chooses, Suehiro, of course, but after Suehiro calls out the penalty game, he tells her he still wants to go out. This is the first volume of a series and so far, it’s pretty typical for a shoujo manga. Suehiro fits the nerdy, wallflower stereotype and Takasago fits the popular guy one. Takasago is rather pushy early on, which is a bit annoying…