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MANGA: Boku-tachi wa Mada Aoku
Boku-tachi wa Mada Aoku – Kuroi Tsumuji
“Our grade’s top scorer, an unapproachable guy, only opens up to me. That’s so friggin’ adorable!”
Saegusa is utterly bored of his high school life. Along comes Arochi Tooru, a guy with the brightest hair he’s ever seen, who transfers into his class. It’s an oddity already, for some guy with outrageous looks and a cold attitude, to transfer into a prep school. So he immediately draws the attention of everyone in his class. What’s more, he’s apparently a genius who cinches the top spot in their grade on their class exam.
One day, Saegusa uses a common point of interest to approach Arochi, and the two start to become closer. But once they become friends, Arochi is actually really oblivious and cute! Saegusa just can’t take his eyes off this cutie!We’re Still in the Spring of Life is your quintessential spring time manga that is as adorable as the cover.
The plot is something we have read about often. Sunshine-y student befriends stoic transfer student (or vice versa) and young love blooms. It follows the two boys as they navigate their evolving relationship while juggling schoolwork and preparing for their university entrance exams. The two boys inspire each other to reach for their dreams.
The vibe is pure and gentle. It has that wonderful kind of wholesomeness that cleanses the soul. I love how the artwork matches that softness.
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REVIEW: Aisle Be There by Charlie Cochet
Runaway Grooms: Aisle Be There – Charlie Cochet
They say your wedding day is the beginning of your happily ever after.
But I’m pretty sure they never stood on a sweltering Florida beach getting ready to promise forever… only to change their mind at the last minute and be assaulted by a crustacean while fleeing the scene.
Once upon a time, I was a respected Navy officer. A guy who made a career out of managing chaos.
Now, I am the chaos, a groom on the run from my ex-fiance and his dad’s goons. Oh, and the guy driving the getaway car? That would be my ex-boyfriend, Jett.
Gorgeous. Brilliant. A guy I couldn’t help falling in love with twelve years ago.
The guy I realize I’ve always loved.
Did I mention he’s also a famous rock star on a sold-out summer tour?
This situation has disaster written all over it. But if I can manage the chaos, maybe I’ll get my happy ending after all.
Readers keenly following The Kings and their friends were teased by the opening scenes of this cute meet-disaster, second chance romance with a fake rock star boyfriend thrown in the mix, in the book Sleight of Hand.
Aisle Be There runs in the same humorous vein as Four Kings Security and its spin-off, The Kings: Wild Cards. Gage Kingston, cousin to Wade Kingston, aka King, is having the worst cold feet a couple of hours before his wedding to an overdramatic artist/influencer. A hermit crab in his suit finally drove him to run away, only to end up almost causing a tent stage to collapse and being rescued by none other than the rock star Jett Stevens, lead singer of Queen’s Hart. Also his ex.
I love Charlie Cochet‘s writing, and this offering is chockful of things I enjoy in her books. There’s the wacky found family in the awesome septuagenarian Queen’s Hart members who treated Jett like family. There’s the snark, the crazy antics, and the swoony romance with an adorable ex-military boyfriend in Gage.
This series is more of a straightforward contemporary romance compared to the action-oriented Kings series. Jett has big shoes to fill after his dad, Hart Stevens, passed away. Passionate and just as talented as his legendary dad, he is, nonetheless, doomed to forever live in the shadow of that legend, dimming his own brilliance in the process.
Which Gage was quick to observed, having seen Jett at his best in their younger days. And as a good boyfriend, even a fake one at that, did everything he could to make Jett feel like himself again. It had him butting heads with the band manager, Jett’s uncle, a manipulative, money-hungry bastard.
I had a lot of fun with this book, and being a lifelong rock music fan, I get a kick out of the bands namedropped here and there. Gage and Jett were adorbs! The cameos from the Kings and their friends were the cherry on top.
However, the story almost lost me at the crucial 3rd arc. I’ll try not to spoil it too much. It’s the part were the evil uncle was driving a wedge between Gage and Jett. He spewed some bullshit about Jett causing the self-sacrificing Gage to run away because of well-meaning crap of not wanting to ruin Jett’s dream. It frustrated me so much I wanted to throw the book.
First, it is well-established that the uncle is a manipulative bastard who will say anything to keep Jett under his thumb. Jett is aware of this. Had tried several times to fire the bastard, only to be outwitted. Gage is also very, very much aware of this. Plus, he just told himself he’s going to fight for his second chance with Jett. And, even made a note to talk to Jett, especially about his uncle.
Gage had confrontation with the evil uncle, who went on a villain monologue and told Gage he was bad for Jett’s dream project. Which the singer was supposedly working on for months but Gage had never heard Jett mentioned before. The dork could have recorded that little speech on his cellphone and showed it to Jett. So maybe he couldn’t record the bastard secretly. HE COULD HAVE TALKED TO JETT!!!!!!! ASK HIM ABOUT THE DAMN PROJECT IF IT EVEN EXISTS!!! ARG!!!!
Instead, the idiot hastily packed his bags and ran away, even after Jett begged him to stay. WITHOUT ASKING JETT ABOUT THE DAMN PROJECT OR EVEN CONFIRMING WHAT THE EVIL UNCLE TOLD HIM. WHO EVERYONE KNOWS IS A LYING LIAR WHO LIES!!!!
Past this trainwreck, the conclusion won me over again with a grand gesture we could only dream about from our favorite rock stars. So yeah, this rockin’ trip down the aisle ain’t perfect, but it’s still quite a show!
Rating:
3.5 Stars – that place between like and loveSoundtrack: Be There
Artist: IAMDYNAMITE
Album: Wasa Tusa
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SOUNDTRACK: Be There by IAMDYNAMITE
Soundtrack to Runaway Grooms: Aisle Be There by Charlie Cochet
Be There by IAMDYNAMITE for a book about a runaway groom who helped a rock star reach for his dreams.
You got me running but I really don’t care
You got me running to the any old there
You got a feeling but you get it on top
You gotta love me baby anything star
You never come but I get you going far
Someone there to come and get you going far
You never come but I get you going far
Someone there to come and get you going far -
You can feel it in the sea
All you ever thought you’d feel or see
Tell me now whether we’ll go on
Set me on fire but the fire is gone
Hold me, hold me, hold me close until you feel right
I know
When the light is nearer to the sea
So darling, darling, darling easy nowYou got me running but I really don’t care
You got me running to the any old there
You got a feeling but you get it on top
You gotta love me baby anything star
You never come but I get you going far
Someone there to come and get you going far
You never come but I get you going far
Someone there to come and get you going farBe there, won’t ya be there
Woah woah, woah woah
And a be there won’t ya be there
Woah woah, woah woah
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real, realYou can feel it in the sea
All you ever thought you’d feel or see
Tell me now whether we’ll go on
Set me on fire but the fire is gone
Hold me, hold me, hold me close until you feel right
I know!
When the light is nearer to the sea
So darling, darling, darling easy nowYou got me running but I really don’t care
You got me running to the any old there
You got a feeling but you get it on top
You gotta love me baby it ain’t gonna stop
I’m never going but i’ll get you going far
Someone there they’re gonna get you going far
I’m never coming but I’ll get you going far
Someone there they’re gonna get you going farBe there, won’t ya be there
Woah woah woah woah
And a be there won’t ya be there
Woah woah woah woah
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real, realBe there won’t ya be there
Woah woah woah woah
And a be there won’t ya be there
Woah woah woah waoh
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’ma gonna get so realBe there, won’t ya be there
Woah woah woah woah
And a be there won’t ya be there
Woah woah woah woah
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’ma gonna get so real, real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’m gonna get so real
Tell me I’ma gonna get so real, real -
MOVIE FEATURE: Punch (2023)
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COVER REVEAL: The Art of Husbandry by Jay Hogan
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RELEASE BLITZ: Separate Development by David Blyth (Excerpt & Giveaway)
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RELEASE TOUR: Free Me by Beck Grey (Excerpt & Giveaway)