Yaoi manga reviews and fujoshi ramblings
Sometimes you start a yaoi book and you just know you’re going to love it. The characters are hot, the art is great, the story has a strong start and hooks you right away, etc…all of this bodes well. Spell was one of those for me, a real page-turner that I loved instantly, and beautifully done in every aspect.
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Hey peeps, it’s a Lily Hoshino review, so you know what that means! Put on your diva makeup, tape your junk up between your crotch, strap on your platform heels and glittering body suit with a ‘natural’ platinum blonde wig on top and turn on Ru Paul – it’s girls-with-penises time!
Continue reading “ALONE IN MY KING’S HAREM (Lily Hoshino)”
If I had to guess which yaoi books on my shelf be legitimatly tear-inducing, Othello would probably have been in the bottom half of that list. An R16 that looks kind of like a lame vampire story with that gothic cover font? Nah. Yet, as it turned out, to say Othello was moving, beautiful, and heartbreaking would be an understatement – this book absolutely came out of left field. I guess really I just wasn’t expecting it to be so touching, much less serious.
You’re probably wondering what the hell is so special about your standard oversize mid-2000s R16 June book, of which there are dozens. Trust me, I was surprised too.
Continue reading “OTHELLO (Toui Hasumi)”
I can sum this one up in 7 words: ‘Better than I thought it would be.’ But, I’ll add a further few 20 words: ‘not in the least because a super hot gay pirate captain gets his yogurt cannon waxed at the end.’ (I don’t count sex in a yaoi book as a spoiler, sorry).
Continue reading “LOST BOYS (Kaname Itsuki)”
Oh my God, this book. This freaking book. I never thought a shounen-ai could get my heart pounding like a schoolgirl talking to her crush. Yes a shounen-ai, as in no explicit sex – that’s a feat for someone who has spent enough time in the dark corners of the internet to have careful instructions to trusted people to destroy my hard drives upon death. And it takes a special kind of sexless BL story to get an 8+ out of me. Plus, it gets a bit hard to regress from M titles once you get far enough in the sin bin. Then again, there is lots of M-rated BL that simply slaps together a lame and unsatisfying sex scene just to reel in your eyeballs with that “explicit content” box, and they are the worst offenders in my opinion – if a book claims to be rated M, it better damn well better be. With 16+ stories, at least I know what I’m getting (or rather, not getting) – you can’t be upset about no sugar in your cornflakes if the box says there isn’t any.
Continue reading “DASH! (Isaku Natsume)”
When I’m in the mood to read (loosely-used term here) something totally slutty, a Deux Press title is always my go-to. Their titles even sound trashy (Cigarette Kisses, Mister Mistress, FreshMen, Seduce Me After the Show, or, possibly my favorite title for any gay romance, Chocolate Surprise). The only real shame with this publisher is that they completed wasted a golden opportunity by not using the initials “DP” on their book spines. Why bother pumping out pulp fiction about male prostitution and gay Yakuza sex when sharing initials with ‘double penetration’ is too much? I’m just saying, relevant branding opportunity wasted.
Continue reading “SAY PLEASE (Kano Miyamoto)”