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a cute story, Cute characters. If this was a film I'd rate it PG. I suppose one could call the story bland but I felt the development of relationship was well done and as with any old fashioned romance, it is about the romance and less about getting down and dirty, its about a journey gettting from point A the meet to point B friendship to final point C Love and Sex and all that good jazz, :D
The novel is filled with so many grammatical and spelling errors that one would think a child edited it. maybe. From the title, and the thickness, of the book I figured it'd be light and nothing heavy. June usually puts out some really good yaoi novels, but they really dropped the ball on this one. I'd only read this novel again if I was truly bored out of my mind. It was exactly that.
Its just a huge turn-off for me when reading, because I don't feel like I should have to edit 1/2 of a published book. I bought this yaoi novel from Borders thinking it'd just be a nice little read. Page after page, there were huge errors, which can sometimes ruin the novel because you'll just run across the errors and have to re-read the sentences for them to make sense. The characters started out somewhat interesting, but became less so as they never seemed to evolve. This was like a starter yaoi novel, if there is such a thing. If you want something with substance, growth of characters, and relationship development please go read another novel.
The translation is bad, but the story is worse and predictable from the beginning to the end of every sentence.
I've read A LOT of yaoi novels, including all of the books available in America, and this is by far the worst of them. The characters were unbelievable, the plot was so predictable that it was boring, and by the end, I was pretty annoyed with the whole thing. I'm not going to say it was the worst thing I ever read, but it was seriously disappointing. The story showed promise in the beginning, but it never came together. It came off as almost a parody of a yaoi novel. There's much better yaoi to be had out there, and most of it isn't going to be in English anytime soon.
They jumped into relationship pretty easily. I found myself wishing there was a book two to this.
The author really did her homework. I really enjoyed this one.
Until that point though he's a strong interesting character. She'd clearly been to LA, where this was set, and she knew the ins and outs of television production.
A lot of the story revolves around this as opposed to romance.I was also pleasantly surprised by the uke, who is a Japanese American and a fireball, at least until the very end when he goes all ukey during sex. For all that the two heroes spent time together, they spent a fair amount of the book apart and it would have been nice to see more attention paid to when they got back together.
It was quite understandable why the seme fell for this uke, but not as easy to see why the reverse happened.Still, the plot didn't have any of the hackneyed cliches BL tends to, and no rape or non-con, just an honest story about two guys with similar interests meeting, so it was a really nice change of pace.
Not only that, the plot was horribly flat with no rising action or climax to boot. I was quite sorely disappointed with this piece of work. Everything in this novel was just so horribly bland. Both of the main characters were very static. There was almost no, if any, development in either one of their personalities all throughout the novel. There was also a lot of English and grammatical errors that I thought could've easily been spotted had the publishers simply proofread the work. I was hugely disappointed through and through.
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