I'm watching The Prosecutor's Proposal and also finished the novel. It's a hate to love relationship with possessive and obsessive top and a smart but timid bottom. They have no sexual assault or abuse between them, just pure tension and desire. Top is a sadist and bottom enjoys a little pain.
Is there any BL rec with similar dynamic?
I like it when there's possessive and obsessiveness but no assault. Is that even possible in this day and age?(/TДT)/
Overall I liked it, but I thought it was a super melodramatic story.
In addition, I wished this was just full on dark atmosphere instead of flip flopping between the chibis. I can't take this seriously knowing the character has suffered greatly just to see him portrayed as a round cheek big eyed chibi enjoying a yuzu cookie in the next panel over. It resets the tone of the story constantly and made it hard to retain certain emotional reaction I had.
I did enjoy how much they liked and wanted each other but at the same time, I couldn't really connect to their feelings, in the aspect that I wasn't going "omg their relationship is so profound" because given that Bottom was an abused child, is it surprising he fell for the first person who treated him kindly? The top was treated like a monster, is it surprising he fell for the first person who didn't fear and hate him despite that fact? Their attraction was too convenient, their yearning starts to fall flat.
Still a decent read though, at the end of the day. Just not as amazing or as deep as many other commenters made it out to be imo
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