The actual premise of the story is very simple. It's a story about how the wishes of people can become distorted and how our own lack of belief in our wishes takes shape into something grotesque when in reality our wish was something much more simpler and much more attainable.

The main protagonist Kazuki Hoshino is invested in his daily life of a normal highschool boy when suddenly someone who calls herself Aya Otonashi declares herself Kazuki's enemy which begins the insane yet heart touching story.

The characters are hit or miss. But the growth and development they get makes them very endearing and you feel a sense of fulfillment watching them grow and come to terms with their reality. I'd say they are too smart more often then they are too stupid. Like absolute braniacs and it's hard to keep up with the dialogue sometimes with the things they are able to think of from seemingly mundane and normal places.

With the prose of the story and how it's written you often don't know from which perspective the story is being written in until later on which makes it confusing as you have to re-arrange the actual events that have happened. It's one of my first light novels that I have been reading so it was also confusing to know who was saying what so I'd have to often re-read sections. I'm not sure if that's just a light novel thing or just the way Hakomari was written.

Overall if you're into romance, mindfucks, and psychological thrillers I think you should AT LEAST give volume 1 a try.