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Ooku - Le stanze proibite, Vol. 1 by Fumi Yoshinaga

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dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The twists and turns in this were just too good. At one point I even started crying, and this was all within volume 1. Ooku is the story of an alternate Edo-period Japan where there was an outbreak of a disease that killed off 3/4th of the men. The men are revered and protected since there aren't many of them. The Shogun, who is always female now (because women took up all the "male" roles in society) has an inner chamber with societies 800 most beautiful men. 

There is so much drama in this one story, I really loved it. There was one thing that I didn't like and that was how
the characters in the book knew about the attempted rape of the main character and they just gloss over it because it's apparently a thing that happens often. That pissed me off, this needed to be handled better.


Overall I'm giving this 4.5 stars out of 5
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