Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 8 (light novel): Storm Bringer Volume 8 (BUNGO STRAY DOGS NOVEL SC) Paperback – 28 Jun. 2022

This is actually the first BSD light novel I've read and now I've started to read the others.It was easy to get immersed in the story, I knew about the events in Fifteen from the anime so it was easy to grasp what was going on.Currently the paperback is sold out but I plan on buying it as soon as I can. Kafka Asagiri is a great writer. I love this author's characters.

Chuuya's backstory is a heavy focus in this book which I felt as though helped me to understand him better. I bought this on the 25th December, and I am writing this having just finished it on the 29th December, although you could definitely finish it in much less time than I did: it was a very busy season for me!I did find it very sad in places, as it explores loss and trauma perfectly. Many characters are quite relatable in places, and for the first time ever Mori didn't suck - maybe because his weird infatuation with Elise isn't mentioned here, which is probably for the best.The relationships were very compelling to me: Adam and Chuuya felt a lot to me like father and son, which was actually touched on through metaphors by Asagiri. I definitely enjoyed the arguing between Dazai and Chuuya: it did make me laugh in places and I found the way they care for one another in their own ways to be quite sweet. They remind me a lot of those American books targeted at teenage girls where academic rivals have a bit of an enemies to lovers, and I did find it pretty funny that the extracts that hinted at Soukoku (a ship between Dazai and Chuuya) were highlighted by a lot of people who read the book on a Kindle as I did.The relationship between Verlaine and Rimbaud was INCREDIBLY bittersweet, and it did have me crying in places. I really enjoyed how they were presented though, and the closure that was given.Dazai girlbossed (as always), and I feel like Adam has become a new favourite character for me. Chuuya doesn't get hardly enough screen time in the anime/manga series so I feel like sitting down with a book that focuses on him helps someone to like his character more. His backstory is very sad, and I found it quite sweet that he turned down a lot of discovery about himself for the greater good of others. There are definitely characters I didn't like, although I feel that was intentional from the author because of the way they acted and were presented (I am of course talking about N.)I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who has a general understanding of BSD's characters and storyline, although in the afterword the author does say that this sort of clarifies the events of another book, which I believe was Dazai and Chuuya: Aged 15, so I do recommend reading that first.Overall, I really enjoyed it, although this night be a good time to mention I am autistic and currently very hyperfixated on BSD in general, so because of that there may be very different opinions in comparison to mine :)

Really gives some depth on chuuya's backstory and character, I'm still reading it but so far I thoroughly enjoy it. My copy came in good condition and arrived fairly quickly; overall, I'm very pleased.

A book that every bungo stray dogs lover must read. Rewatching the show after reading this changes so much, and you notice things you wouldn't have noticed before. I loved this book so much, that it's actually the first novel I've ever finished. And I loved every bit of it. The product itself was great too, good quality and new.

Daughter loved this book hasn’t stopped reading it

Can't comment on the book as I bought it as a gift but apparently it was good.

Amazing

SB is definitely my favourite Light Novel so far. Chuuya’s character is given so much more depth - Fan’s definitely must read!! Adam and Verlaine are some of my new favourites and Shirase is hilarious!