reviews_and_ramblings | Touch within the Abyss by Moyori Mori

A love story between two lonely people, spun with overwhelming artistic skill. A promising debut work from a new star!

"If you knew the real me... you'd be disappointed."

Hitman Chinatsu once failed to pull the trigger on his target and it cost him his brother's life. That day, the sole witness who took Chinatsu's trembling hand had clear eyes that stared right through him... straight into the abyss within.

Five years later, a purse-snatching reunites Chinatsu with his savior: Kasumi, a young blind man searching for a way out of his own lonely world. Chinatsu knows better than to get involved with a potential witness, but he can't help but be drawn to Kasumi's radiant smile. If Kasumi knew the truth of their provenance, could he ever forgive the sins of Chinatsu's past?

My Rate: 9 (amzn.to/3XCod3d)

Touch within the Abyss is quite a lyrical story, and even if the atmosphere is really heavy and the theme a little dark, it's an happily ever after story so read it without worry. The art style is almost ethereal, and Kasumi seems a little childlike, but that is just cause he has led a sheltered life; all the opposite of Chinatsu, who should be a villain, but indeed it's a good man who is able to conquer Kasumi, and to treasure him. The love story is really sweet, but it's indeed a romance, it's clear the two of them will form a couple and build a family of their own. They are two lost souls, lost for different reasons, who meet and fill each other void.