Reviews - A Complicated Omega's Second Love

32 reviews for:

A Complicated Omega's Second Love

Kichi Uekawa

3.57 AVERAGE

lydthekid's review

3.0

hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sofieinthestacks's review against another edition

1.75

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

stacy_reads's review

4.25

lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

5.0

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I fully expected this to be terrible and it wasn't. I wound up enjoying it. The relationship building is nicely paced and sweet. It's still weird that Sakura doesn't even consider seeing a doctor when he loses more than a month if memory. Because of incel internet culture of alpha vs beta males, it was occasionally hard to take this book's premise seriously even though the two are unrelated.

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tabi_ha's review

5.0

funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

bacchusvines's review against another edition

2.5

lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: N/A

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

CW for amnesia, dubious consent, groping, and off-page implied attempted sexual assault.

Some Alpha/Omega stories work and some are just...okay. Sadly, that's how I felt about this one. We have Sakura, an Omega that's hiding their Omega status from their coworkers while they work at a firm. Because of his Omega status, Sakura hates letting anyone take care of things and tends to put everything on his shoulders. I get this idea of Sakura's but man. I hated the amnesia part of the plot. Narushige is Sakura's Alpha coworker and apparently his mate during that 2 week amnesia period. I don't like the reveal of Sakura's amnesia being while the two were being intimate and wish that could have been struck from the story.

Outside of that, I did enjoy how Sakura slowly falls for Narushige again, learning the good and funny qualities of this strange Alpha. The romance part was nice and I like that Narushige took Sakura away from the gossip of him being an Omega (an old classmate outed him). But since this is a single volume, it felt that the progression of the romance was not that satisfying. Obviously a good Alpha/Omega story if you enjoy those kind, but as a BL and romance, eh. That's why stories are subjective, right?