Poetic Storytelling
The writing in Lips Touch: Three Times stays true to its fairy tale inspirations. The language is flowery and romantic, and can seem antiquated at times even when it's dealing with modern day subjects. For example, Kizzy is a contemporary teenage girl going to an American high school, but the language in "Goblin Fruit" often reads like something straight out of a fairy tale written centuries ago. Check it out:
Kizzy wanted to be a woman who would dive off the prow of a sailboat into the sea, who would fall back in a tangle of sheets, laughing, and who could dance a tango, lazily stroke a leopard with her bare foot, freeze an enemy's blood with her eyes, make promises she couldn't possibly keep, and then shift the world to keep them. (1.3.3)
Who the heck says "prow" these days? What teenage girl longs to tango? The writing style sets the mood for all of the magical and romantic elements in the stories, steeping readers in the land of fairy tale and guiding their expectations toward this genre, too.