Yeah, that one threw me at first-but it’s the secret to the incredible richness of Light from Uncommon Stars. Oh, and there are aliens and spaceships too. Shizuka resolves to help Katrina blossom into the musician and woman she is meant to be-even if it means condemning her to Hell. Finally, Shizuka finds Katrina Nguyen: a trans runaway who loves gaming music but struggles with self-acceptance. Shizuka has but one soul left in the bargain, but she has dragged her heels finding her new student, and she is now entering her final year of her deal. Nicknamed the Queen of Hell, Shizuka does, in fact, have a deal with a demon: deliver seven talented souls to Hell to free herself from its hold over her. Shizuka Satomi is a renowned violin teacher, though no recordings of her own performances are in evidence. I don’t know how Ryka Aoki does it, but somehow, this book satisfied me more than any book in recent memory. Light from Uncommon Stars starts strange before turning decidedly peculiar, yet somewhere along the way, it transubstantiates into something … pure. Sometimes a book sneaks up on you, so viciously quiet you don’t realize how much it has affected you until you reach the final pages.
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