Helpful Score: 1
Meh story, pretty artwork. Tatsuki's entire family is slain by an evil (but shockingly beautiful) male demon. He swears vengeance but is waylaid by a leopard/man who "marks" him with a temporary tattoo of the leopard people (apparently his "spirit" has been marked). As he heads off to wreak revenge on the demon-man with the pretty face he is further waylaid when he's kidnapped by a traveling circus, whipped by a fat man (who thank the good lord of yaoi doesn't rape him) and is forced into slavery. Some guys just can't catch a break, eh? There he meets another young slave named Keo who stars in the acrobatic show. After Tatsuki watches Teo fly through the air with the greatest of ease in his tight little costume, they fall madly in love and run away together. They have steamy sex in the forest that is totally blocked out by various body parts (grrr), as is the way with most of this yaoi. Turns out Keo is marked by a beast too. Damn, what are the odds? Because of this they have to go through some trial to become shaman's or somesuch for the forest folk but meanwhile Tatsuki is having bizarro dreams of the demon who is trying to seduce him. More weird and confusing things happen, the demon does bad things to Tatsuki and sweet little Keo and it ends at an abrupt and confusing HEA. Was it all a dream or no? I'm so confused. Why do I read these? They make my head spin. The second story is a total stinker. It's about a boy and a clockwork boy who get all kissy face for no other reason than they are the only two boys on the planet (why? who knows). There is no substance AND the artwork is just not good.
Helpful Score: 1
Not very good. The drawing is amaturish and while sometimes good, is also sometimes really bad. It's not often I say "the story is better than the art," but even that can't save it.
And it's one of those "show everything but" pose books for the sexual situation.
Frankly, I'd skip it. There are a lot better titles out there.
Yaoi Press, I'm not impressed.
And it's one of those "show everything but" pose books for the sexual situation.
Frankly, I'd skip it. There are a lot better titles out there.
Yaoi Press, I'm not impressed.
Well I must say the first review seems better written than the book.
