Ryuno

The Longing of Shiina Ryo by Ryuno is, for now, a webnovel. The author is looking for a publisher and had sent in his manuscript to various agents. He was praised for his unique style, engaging storytelling and then sent away. Which is sad.
The concept is obviously inspired by many light novels, a literary concept very popular in Japan. Light novels are essentially series of books, short to medium in length, accompanied by drawings of the various scenes in the book. Those are not the focus show more though - they're more likely a pointer to visualize the persons and what is happening. The series genre are usually speculative fiction with a focus on the character interactions.
To be honest, I like the story. It is told in 1st person by Shin-Tsu, a japanese student. After some travels and many moves he finally settled down in the city in which he knows an internet friend lives, the titular Shiina Ryo. Shin² had always been on the move to avoid the and flee from, what he dubbed, mystery. This he calls whatever makes his life such an interesting endeavour. There are many allusions to what already happened to him due to this "Mystery" - time travel, dimension hopping, et cetera - but his past isn't the focus of this novel, but rather the present. His meeting of Shiina and her friend, and discovering his escape from Mystery didn't work this time, either. He snarks a decent commentary, though.
A special feature I want to point out: Shin² is genre savvy. He doesn't know he's a characters in a light novel, but he suspects it. Furthermore Shiina, a top student with constant A's and also considerably beauty, is aware she might look like a Mary Sue but insist she isn't. So conversational references to stylistic devices, tropes and pop culture are common and well done.

Honestly, I wish a publisher would have the guts to publish this book, and possible sequels. I would pay money for this, for a dead tree copy lying on my shelf, a copy I could easily lend a friend with the intent advise "Read. This." show less