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  • manga,  Uncategorized
    February 25, 2018 / No Comments

    Yasashii Dakeno – Tsuta Suzuki

    A terminally ill patient and a mysterious boy.

    One of the more unusual BL stories out there

    (source: https://mangaonline.fun)

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  • manga,  Uncategorized
    February 25, 2018 / No Comments

    Yasashii Dakeno – Tsuta Suzuki

    A terminally ill patient and a mysterious boy.

    One of the more unusual BL stories out there

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    February 25, 2018 / 1 Comment

    Innocent: The Innocent Auction – Victoria Sue

    London 1810.

    Their love was a death sentence.

    Deacon, Viscount Carlisle, was aware of the slums and gin-lanes of London. Just as he was aware of the underground traffic that furnished the brothels and bath houses with human innocents. He was also aware that the so-called justice system would hang the accused without much of an attempt at a defense, unless the unfortunate had deep pockets to pay for it.

    He just hadn’t expected to be directly involved in any of it.

    It started with a plea for help and ended with forbidden love, the love between a Viscount and a stable-boy. An impossible love and a guarantee of the hangman’s noose.

    Will Deacon fight for Tom? Will he risk the death sentence and take that fight from the stately halls of his English mansion to the horrors of Newgate Prison and the slums of London?

    Or will he realize that if he doesn’t, death will be a welcome end to the loneliness of the sentence he is already living?

    As somebody with boring brown eyes surrounded by more brown eyes, descriptions of eye and hair color always fascinate me. My only first hand encounter with natural blue eyes is the right eye of my cat with heterochromia. Tom’s eyes was called stunning several times and if my cat’s eye is anything to go by, it might be quite stunning indeed. Face claims below:

    This be tom

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    This be Deacon

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    Deacon has dark hair and grey eyes. Nice!

    Theirs is a fluffy romance between an viscount, Deacon, who saved a young boy, Tom, from the innocent auctions, a highly illegal event that puts up the young and innocent for sale. Little did he know the boy would grow up to be the love of his life. Tom who was then sent directly to the countryside, was good with horses and worked for Deacon in his estate. They haven’t seen each other for five years since the rescue. When Deacon’s father, the earl, died, Deacon who inherited the title, visited the estate and there met Tom again. Both felt the strong attraction between them. There ensues the internal and external struggles of the two main characters with societal pressures and class conflict warring with personal desires. To add more complication to the mix, Deacon’s cousin and best friend, Beau, was caught in flagrante with the young son of the Duke of Cambridgeshire, a very influential and powerful figure. Beau was thrown into Newgate Prison and thereafter sentenced into pillory. Tom and Deacon tried to help him all the while trying to avoid scandal.

    Major points for the atmosphere and historical details. Overflowing commodes, naked prisoners sleeping in dirty straw, the greasing of palms and exchange of coin for a slight change of accommodations…Regency era Newgate Prison was a very, very dismal affair. Poor Beau! His was the horror story every Regency era gay guy keeps in mind as they stumble into their clandestine affairs. Hence, Their love was a death sentence.

    The story was the standard historical romance fare with the M/M angle thrown in but what I really like about it is that instead of the usual, arrogant sharped tongued rake, we get a newly minted earl who’s genuinely nice, kind, watches out for his own servants and rescues people. And while the writing lacked the humor and sharpness I always expect from British writers and the resolution was wrapped up a little too neatly in a tidy bow, it still has enough moments of fluff and drama to keep me interested and go for the second book.

    I think this is a nice introduction to Victoria Sue’s work. Not quite as outstanding as I expected but definitely a lot of potential.

    Rating:
    3.5 Stars – that place between like and love

    Soundtrack: Stepson
    Artist: Foals
    Album: Holy Fire

    (source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35274455-the-innocent-auction)

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    February 25, 2018 / No Comments


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    February 25, 2018 / No Comments

    “Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run.
    “No!”
    “If you save somebody’s life three times, their life belongs to you. You saved my life today, that makes once. Save it twice more an I’m all yers.”

    Moira Young

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    February 25, 2018 / No Comments

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  • manga,  Uncategorized
    February 19, 2018 / No Comments

    Hearty – Yuko Yoshida

    You lie. This is how you get through life without bumps. This is Honma’s skill. One day, while attending a university group meetup, he meets a student by the name of Ikai. He takes an interest in the serious and honest Ikai and decides to make him his next plaything and initiates contact. Suspicious, Ikai sets a one-month time limit for them to go out?

    I remained unconvinced.

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    February 19, 2018 / No Comments

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    Tyack & Frayne: Tinsel Fish – Harper Fox

    Christmas in a Cornish seaside town, bright lights and a hot new romance to ward off the winter storms… What could be finer? But Gideon and Lee’s first festive season together is shockingly interrupted when Lee tries to rid a client’s home of a malevolent presence. The ritual goes wrong, and in its aftermath Lee is strangely altered. As well as dealing with the changes in his lover, Gideon has a sinister thread to follow, linking the haunted house with disappearances among the homeless people of Falmouth.

    Can love withstand what looks like a case of possession? As the darkest night of the year comes down, Gideon finds himself locked in a battle to restore his lover’s soul.

    Someday, I’ll go to London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cornwall and all these places I have read about and make a pilgrimage to sites mentioned in books like Camlet Moat, Gretna Green or a desolate moor.

    The second book of the Tyack and Frayne series had Lee attempt to do a sort of cleansing and ended up not being himself. The result was a riotous scene where he picked a fight at a restaurant and ended up being hauled away like a sack of potatoes by Gideon. That was the best and one of the very few highlights of the book for me. The rest of the book was flat and uninteresting but those into steam would be glad that Lee and Gid had a lot of smexy time together.

    Another thing of note is the appearance of Gideon’s brother Ezekiel and Lee ‘s meeting with Gideon’s parents. There was also a nice follow up on the Kemp kid’s situation and Isolde had more page time but all of these were not enough to save the book. I think I couldn’t be arsed to read the rest of the series anymore but a visit to Cornwall is still in order.

    Rating:

    2 Stars – it’s a struggle to finish the damn book 

    Soundtrack: Faded from the Winter
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  • song,  Uncategorized
    February 19, 2018 / No Comments


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  • Uncategorized
    February 19, 2018 / No Comments

    You don’t have to be psychic to end up knowing things you were a lot happier not knowing.

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