Super cute, but story is really nothing new in the shojo manga line. It can lull at times making it a slow read.

Another volume that kept me going to the last page. The drama is getting thicker and I know that Rio is going to crack. I can already feel it. This ends in a cliffhanger that is pretty cruel and makes me want to pick up the next volume soon.

A first love story turned love triangle, now turned forbidden love?
We follow our two female protagonists as they discover love; one who never really falls in love and one who only knows about it through fairy tales. I decided to pick up the series due to the author's previous work, Ao Haru Ride, and how much I loved the story in that. One thing that really threw me for a loop was the direction the story took. This particular volume was so great because it develops both potential relationships - giving us heartwarming moments with both, expecting what’s to come - and ends on a crazy cliffhanger where a third potential relationship is thrown in; confusing our emotions. None of the characters are bad people, they are all so nice and we want them all to be happy, but pursuing the third relationship will leave our other characters unhappy? The good thing is - we do not know! A lot of romance anime I have read are heartwarming moments of people discovering their true emotions and learning to show it to the person they care about. With this manga, we are still unaware of what will unfold. I look forward to seeing the upcoming animated movie about this manga because that will surely bring more people to enjoy this work.

Advanced reader copy was provided to me by the publisher on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

As soon as I saw that this volume was available to request on NetGalley, I was so excited. My love for this series has slowly been growing as I have been reading the books. It's very slow paced, and it wasn't until this volume where I felt like the overall plot was developing. One of my favourite things about this series in the friendships. I love Akari and Yuna's friendship, Yuna's and Rio's, and how Yuna knows everything and helps people whilst also doing damage control for others. I think the selling point of this series is the friendships made rather than the romance overall, although I did enjoy seeing the romance start to play a bigger part of the plot with the characters starting to like people or reconfirming feelings. And that ending had me shook. I need to know what happens! That cliffhanger will haunt me until volume 4.

I would recommend this series. It's a light, easy read that anyone would enjoy. I am looking forward to continuing on with this series!

Love Me, Love Me Not, Volume 3 is a cute romance brought to us again by VIZ.

If you love adorable, fluffy romance and drama, this book is perfect for you! It's a super sweet high school, YA influenced romance. It's utterly adorable and kind of a guilty pleasure read.

Three out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and VIZ for providing me a free copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

In Love Me, Love Me Not, from mangaka Io Sakisaka and published in English by VIZ Media for their Shojo Beat imprint, we see love through the eyes of two teens, Yuna and Akari. In this series, Yuna is dreaming of fairytale princes and love at first sight while Akari is more down to earth and an advocate for making love happen instead of waiting for it to happen to you. But in Love Me Love Me Not Volume 3 the roles have begun to switch as Yuna moves to be practical and Akari begins to tackle a new kind of love, one that’s more fairytale than rational.

Last volume, love, and friendship got extremely complicated. While it was clear that Yuna is in love with Rio she knows that Rio can’t return her feelings. Instead of letting it ruin their friendship, she shows her love being there for him and being the best friend she can be. Having confessed, their dynamic may have gotten a little awkward but their friendship is just as strong.

The drama in Love Me, Love Me Not comes from the very manga trope of Rio and his crush, Akari, being related by marriage. This complicates Yuna’s relationships with both of them and makes Akari’s growing love for Inui, Yuna’s childhood friend who she keeps trying not to fall for. This attraction grows despite the fact that he’s very different from her usual type and seems completely uninterested in love.

When Rio learns that Akari likes Kazuomi, he is not only saddened but angry. While Yuna tries what she can to help alleviate Rio’s pain, it’s all for not, with the volume ending with a moment that has shifted the course of the story – Rio confronting Akari with his truth.

Love Me, Love Me Not Volume 3 is a wonderful piece of the story as each character, other than Kazoumi, begins to shift the archetypes they walked into the series with. While we have been watching Yuna mature since the first chapter, adjusting her longing for a prince to reality, Akari’s development has been slow. While Yuna has learned that platonic love and friendship is sometimes stronger than the romantic relationship she longs for, Akari is the opposite.

Over the course of this volume, Akari has taken Yuna’s rose-colored glasses and as she tries to reason herself out of love with Kazoumi, she decides to give in to the love. Confused by being the type of girl she used to make fun of and by the fact that Kazoumi is nothing like those she’s crushed on in the past, Akari is unsure of just about all of her decisions in this volume. She even pushes herself to her breaking point to gain her crush’s attention.

This strong change in character could have easily been written simply as another trope, a girl changing herself for a cute boy. But the strength of Sakisaka’s writing is that this shift in Akari’s life isn’t done on a whim, instead, she fights with herself. Akari holds herself to a standard she holds from love, one from logic, and her feelings for Kazoumi pushes against this and she doesn’t accept them without a fight. Because of this, Akari doesn’t lose herself in the male character – something that happens all to often in romance shojo.

On the other side of things, Yuna’s focus on being a good friend to Rio is proving difficult. When he chooses to stay behind to help her and the other small acts of kindness he shows to her pushes her affections from platonic to romantic. But she keeps herself in check, prioritizing this emotional wellbeing above her own.

Overall, Love Me, Love Me Not Volume 3 continues an emotional story told through dynamic characters. It explores the changing tides of love and how the relationships we form can shift at the drop of a hat and how friendship is the only stable factor.

A great continuation of Akari and Yuna's friendship. We get more into their feelings when it comes to love and crushes in this volume. A lovely coming of age manga.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for providing the E-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Love me Love me not Vol. 3 Is spectacular!! I'm enjoying the story being told and how Akari is dealing with new emotions that she hasn't felt before. She's actually trying to figure out the difference in them and how it affects her. It's nice seeing how she grows and trying to navigate these emotions.

Rio isn't happy with Akari's new interest and it tears his heart and he doesn't know how to handle it. Even when he tries to push it away and ignore it, it keeps bothering him. He seems to try and grow closer to Yuna as a friend and glad that he has someone to talk to who knows about the problems he's facing.

Yuna watches the struggle with Rio having to adapt and it hurts her heart. She wants him happy, but she also wants to be happy. While she also wants Akari to be happy, but she wants Rio happy as well. Being torn by her emotions she's at a lost and trying to figure out how to help both the people she cares about. The struggle makes it feel real when your watching people you care about get tossed in this mess we call love and emotions. I definitely recommend this to anyone who loves shoujo manga. I can't wait for the next one to come out!

Ever since starting this series earlier this year I find myself waiting for the next volume. There is just so much to love.

In this volume, Akari is really trying to figure out her feelings and it can be hard when you don't know how the other person feels. It's also not easy for her friend Yuna who is struggling to make sure everything stays okay between her little friend group.

I really liked being able to see the struggles unfold by the inner dialogue for Yuna and Akari. It made them very realistic and I just want to see them both happy and at their best!

When it comes to the romance, sometimes it feels like its there but then other times it feels like it could be unrequited. All I know is that it is one giant roller coaster and I feel for this characters.

Every time I pick up another volume for this series I am always blown away by plot twists! That ending is going to be the death of me. I need to know what happens next!

Overall, this will definitely be a series I will be continuing because I can't get enough! It just gives me so many emotions and I love every second of it.