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The Vicious Male Supporting Character Married The Disabled Villain by 旧梦如霜
Did not finish book. Stopped at 65%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 65%.
There were some things I liked and some I didn't. At first i was really into it but the longer I read the more tedious it seems.
这你都不嗑? [“You're Not Even Going to Try This?”] by 马户子君 [Lord Mahuzi]
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
This was such a sweet story. I can't wait to re read it after KK's done translating it because some of the jokes were definitely lost with the MTL but the overall light hearted, sweet and funny tone came across well. The supporting cast was a trip and really helped make the novel a delight to read. Highly recommend for those who love BL and want to read something that genuinely loves it too.
The Paranoid Bosses Are All My Boyfriends by 小白蓮一柏君
Did not finish book. Stopped at 24%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 24%.
Arc 1 was weird.
Arc 2 was so brainless it was giving me a headache.
Arc 2 was so brainless it was giving me a headache.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia and Murder
I'm Sending Warmth to the Disabled Boss by 墨水芯, Mòshuǐ Xīn
2.5
The more I read of this, the more tired I was off the main relationship. They're sickeningly sweet. It's too sweet. And the side couple is almost a complete replica. The exact same personalities and just as disgustingly sweet. There's no real variation.
Fanservice Paradox [營業悖論] by Zhichu
3.0
I loved the relationships between the entire band and that the author really didn't skimp on showing them interact with each other and be a full group. I also really enjoyed Pei Tingsong, who had all the hallmarks of the stereotypical rich, arrogant gong, but was tempered and made far more real by those moments where you could tell that yep, this was definitely a 20 year old boy trying to look cool and is actually a bit of a derp. It's still very a much a MC and ML are so perfect and so beautiful and so good at (just about) everything they do but it has a bit more depth than some of these novels do and a very strong message about pursuing dreams.
There were a lot of funny and entrainment moments in the novel and I got pretty choked up a couple of times and yet, for some reason that I genuinely can't put my finger on and articulate, around chapters 69-100 or so, it was a slog. I was literally forcing myself to pick this book back up. So as much as I overall liked it and what it was doing, it's down two stars for being a struggle to read for a not inconsiderable portion of the book.
There were a lot of funny and entrainment moments in the novel and I got pretty choked up a couple of times and yet, for some reason that I genuinely can't put my finger on and articulate, around chapters 69-100 or so, it was a slog. I was literally forcing myself to pick this book back up. So as much as I overall liked it and what it was doing, it's down two stars for being a struggle to read for a not inconsiderable portion of the book.
After Being Abducted By the General by Wàng Sānshān
I'm so baffled. I've read so many stories where adopted siblings marry and it's perfectly okay, even embraced, but apparently marrying the brother of your dead husband is incest...
Rebirth of the Wolfish Silkpants Bottom by 泡麵香腸君
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
DNFed because literally everything about this book is a steaming pile of crap.
Thinly veiled excuse to sexualize a child, rampant pedophilia, and textbook grooming of a minor by an adult. I genuinely don’t care if the MC is a 30 yo in a child’s body. He doesn’t act like it, literally no one else is aware of it (especially the ML who gropes him constantly) and the book spends a lot of time focusing on sexualizing how cute and young and adorable he is. The ML controls every aspect of his life, to include what food he is and isn’t allowed to eat and blatantly violates his boundaries until he gives up fighting him and tbh, I genuinely felt sorry for most of the people the MC was trying to get revenge on in this life because the situation was so wildly different this time around and tbh most of the things they did to him in his previous life seemed to be consequences of his own shitty actions and they were nice enough people this time around, being punished for something they haven’t done.
Excuse me while I go throw up a little and hate myself for ever even starting this.
Thinly veiled excuse to sexualize a child, rampant pedophilia, and textbook grooming of a minor by an adult. I genuinely don’t care if the MC is a 30 yo in a child’s body. He doesn’t act like it, literally no one else is aware of it (especially the ML who gropes him constantly) and the book spends a lot of time focusing on sexualizing how cute and young and adorable he is. The ML controls every aspect of his life, to include what food he is and isn’t allowed to eat and blatantly violates his boundaries until he gives up fighting him and tbh, I genuinely felt sorry for most of the people the MC was trying to get revenge on in this life because the situation was so wildly different this time around and tbh most of the things they did to him in his previous life seemed to be consequences of his own shitty actions and they were nice enough people this time around, being punished for something they haven’t done.
Excuse me while I go throw up a little and hate myself for ever even starting this.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Pedophilia and Toxic relationship
It Takes Two to Tumble by Cat Sebastian
3.0
EDIT: re-read 17 Aug 2021 and upped the rating to 3 stars. While I can't say the book was stellar and it definitely was formulaic, I didn't feel quite as vitriolic about it as I did in the original review. Unobjectionable and forgettable but just what I was in the mood for at this moment.
So, full disclosure here: I read this series out of order (yes, just like the Turner series). Also, this was the eighth fluffy gay regency romance novel I had read within a five day time frame, squeezed in around an exhausting work schedule/skill evaluation in an unfamiliar climate that had me going from 5:30am to 9 or 10pm every night, while also being sick. I'm absolutely certain all of that had some bearing on my feelings for this book.
With that being said... I was bored. Guys, I was really bored. If there was conflict in this book, it had about as much bearing on it as a crack in the sidewalk has on a person's every day life. Mildly startling if you trip on it but forgotten five minutes later. I'm not saying everything has to be angst and melodrama but give me something, at least. I had zero emotional connection to anything that was happening in this book. Oh, a couple of cute, cheeky kids that are behaving exactly like kids and somehow all of the adults in the book except this one special person have forgotten how to properly interact with children. Oh, a stern grump who has a 180 on his personality because ??? He's getting laid, I guess??? There's a fiance in there somewhere for the vicar but it's okay because someone is going to conveniently fire him from being a vicar and thus all his problems are going to disappear. Hey, here's a touch of set up for the next book. HEA.
So, full disclosure here: I read this series out of order (yes, just like the Turner series). Also, this was the eighth fluffy gay regency romance novel I had read within a five day time frame, squeezed in around an exhausting work schedule/skill evaluation in an unfamiliar climate that had me going from 5:30am to 9 or 10pm every night, while also being sick. I'm absolutely certain all of that had some bearing on my feelings for this book.
With that being said... I was bored. Guys, I was really bored. If there was conflict in this book, it had about as much bearing on it as a crack in the sidewalk has on a person's every day life. Mildly startling if you trip on it but forgotten five minutes later. I'm not saying everything has to be angst and melodrama but give me something, at least. I had zero emotional connection to anything that was happening in this book. Oh, a couple of cute, cheeky kids that are behaving exactly like kids and somehow all of the adults in the book except this one special person have forgotten how to properly interact with children. Oh, a stern grump who has a 180 on his personality because ??? He's getting laid, I guess??? There's a fiance in there somewhere for the vicar but it's okay because someone is going to conveniently fire him from being a vicar and thus all his problems are going to disappear. Hey, here's a touch of set up for the next book. HEA.
It's Actually Not Easy Wanting to Be a Supporting Male Lead by mijia
1.5
Honestly, I spent most of this book wondering why the hell I was still reading this crap. The worlds are VERY short and only a cursory nod is given to any sort of worldbuilding. Most of story is played out, first in the drama of the ML, Xiao Xihe, being a complete asshole to the MC, and justifying it by saying he loves him so who cares if he screws him over, and the MC disliking him. Once the MC does start liking him and they get over the hurdle of he's going to be deleted because Xiao Xihe thinks that since the rules don't really apply to him they must not apply to anyone else either, the story becomes infinitely more boring. I did like some of the MC's witty comebacks to Xiao Xihe's bull and the best parts of the story were any time Xiao Xihe was not getting his way (rarely until much later) and the content warnings are real with this one.
Honestly, I wouldn't waste your time. If you've a hankering for a QT novel like I had, go back and read one of your favorites because this one is just an all around disappointment.
Honestly, I wouldn't waste your time. If you've a hankering for a QT novel like I had, go back and read one of your favorites because this one is just an all around disappointment.
Content Warnings
seriously inappropriate things done to a dog, SERIOUSLY inappropriate things done by a panther (bestiality, bestiality, bestiality T__T), a whole lot of dubcon, and ffs, seriously. Please leave the dogs alone. Why is this a thing?