Dating for two years, these two love birds have lived together in a one room apartment for one year....
- Author: Kamoburger
- Genres: Romance / Smut / Yaoi
will add my full thoughts and tags later. long story short, I can't believe I have to buy this now. 2.5 feels too low but 3 stars feels too generous.
Photographer Suguru comes to Enoshima to take photos when he suddenly spots a young man with hair th...
- Author: Umi tomoshibi
- Genres: Drama / Yaoi
Feel kind of bad giving this a 3½ because it wasn't bad, per se, just kind of emotionless. I had four problems with this story that 3 of them can be summed up as: I couldn't feel what the author wanted me to feel from how it was being shown to me.
This might be the problem of the scan, but the scan was only translating what was given and what was given felt lacking in substance. There were moments that you know you're supposed to feel sad or distressed or excited for them because you're seeing it happen. I felt like I was supposed to feel something during Suguru’s dream, during the conversation about Yuuma, the kiss, and how Kengo handled it afterwards because the art showed me these moments were impactful but the dialogue didn't help me feel anything.
It felt more like a the lack of communication and low emotional weight created a disconnect for me. Like this one part, I really wanted Kengo to say more after kissing Suguru. A sorry is fine and all but I wanted something like how he understood that probably wasn't the best move knowing that Suguru still holds very strong feelings for Yuuma. I just wanted more talking that felt like something. Suguru bringing up Yuuma was probably the best “emotional weight" this story had but because the dialogue was lacking, it didn't match the strengths of the art leaving me feeling nothing.
Shouya, a teenager with no knowledge of love, accidentally stumbles upon the blog of a gay teen whil...
- Author: amekiri
- Genres: Adult / Romance / Shounen Ai / School Life
This is the most disappointed I've been about a book that I want to buy, am going to buy, and will read the spin-off of.
It started out really cute and I love both Sanjou and Shouya and how caring Shouya was towards Sanjou. The blog thing was incredibly adorable to me, not sure why. Something about reading Sanjou’s entries was just cute in a way where if I came across someone tumblr or line blog written like that I would absolutely follow.
However, I think around chapter 2 or 3 where we got our first sex scene, it just kind of went downhill? I don't think this story really needed any sex scenes in general but if you just *had* to write one it would've been nice to had made it a chapter 4 or 4.5 thing only. Despite how caring Shouya was, neither of them brought up the option of just waiting. Even if it was just for the 1st scene, having Sanjou back out from being scared and Shouya recognizing and respecting that would've been so good! I kinda understand why, though, Sanjou would keep pushing himself to do it because of how his personality is but we really didn't need 4 sex scenes.
I did find out that there's a spin-off that's I'm less interested because I didn't really like Ryuu or Ayumu from the time we had with him. I have a feeling that the author just wrote them together just because. Just because their friends are dating each other so now they have to date each other. I don't think there's a rhyme or reason for them to be dating and while I'm not down for that, I'm gonna read it. Might drop it but I will read it.
Yuuji's childhood friend, Souichi is an office worker who is extremely busy with work. After me...
- Author: noji
- Genres: Romance / Yaoi
Putting this in the drop list even though I ///might/// come back to it. Even though I found the story not great, I know my main problem was the translation so if someone else come along to fix this up I'll look back into it and vol 2.
Yuuji's childhood friend, Souichi is an office worker who is extremely busy with work. After me...
- Author: noji
- Genres: Romance / Yaoi
Another book that took me way too long to finish. Started reading this in August and didn't finish it til right now. It was so boring, there were these weird jump cuts(?) that made me feel like I skipped a page so it felt confusing at times, and then top that off with some less than stellar translation. I do feel like, if the translation was better, this would be a 3.5 for me. Yeah this was boring, but there were times I would've found this "boring but sweet" here and there. Besides the typos, the way they spoke felt so robotic. Not in a stiff robotic way but in a "real people don't talk like this" robotic kind of way and had a hand in why it took me forever to finish this. I'm not actually sure if I want to continue to the 2nd vol because of that main reason.
And then there's chapter 7 which had a character who was defiantly 18 and the other person defiantly over 20 and I was defiantly not here for that so I skipped it.
Man in a bar gets picked up by a gorgeous teen. But it's not all it's cracked up to be......
- Author: aiba kyoko
- Genres: Yaoi