Rough Draft Hero

Kind of dragged at the end.

I'm giving it four stars purely because it got me out of a reading rut. And most of it was good! The writing was beautiful and perfect. However, after all that flirting, banter slipping into French, and pet names--Lucy and Ginerva did not end up bumping uglies. I find that mightily atrocious.

*sigh* burned again.

Read this in high school. It involves sadistic homophobia and disability-as-(divine) punishment. Total trash, and not the good kind.

WHAT THE FUCK????

A FUCKING "CHRISTIAN/INSPIRATIONAL" ROMANCE ABOUT A JEWISH WOMAN FALLING IN LOVE WITH A NAZI???


Listen. The pure, unbelievable ignorance it takes to not only write a ROMANCE between a Jewish woman and a Nazi (the head of a fucking concentration camp), but have the MC rely on the Christian bible throughout is fucking heinous.

Pretty silly, but nice.

I think if you took out the long descriptions of "science shit", you'd be left with some pretty corny dialogue and cardboard characters.

Fucking Stanley.

What the hell? What. The. Hell???

From the moment Jack said Will had drowned, this book turned to shit. I know authors think it's clever to not give readers what they want, but there was nothing clever about this shit. The second half of this book was mind-numbing and pointless. Everything was pointless. I am so mad. We already know William Thornhill fucks up everything he touches, I didn't sit through secret river just to watch him fuck everything up for a second time. ARGH.

Also, wow, killing Sal off screen so we can have the evil stepmother?? Really??? Sal should have had to confront her role too. Jesus, nothing was dealt with. It was all teenage crush for the first half, boring marriage to boring man for the second. Nothing came of anything. I call bullshit.

Definitely one of those books where you wish you could jump in and change everything, change everyone's choices.

Awesome older uke/younger seme yaoi *__*

This is the cutest fucking thing on the planet.

I thought it was by some unknown person, but I've actually read this author's stuff and loveeeed it, but she changed her style! Which I think is pretty interesting and cool.

Favorite bit:

That little closed mouth kiss in chapter three! Takamine is such an adorable seme. Yaoi is usually so chock full of violence, and this was such a breath of fresh air. Takamine was tearing up because he thought he was forcing a relationship on Okumura with that tiny peck. Ugh, so cute.

I really feel like this was an exemplary way of having jealousy and possessiveness, but not at the detriment of the uke. And Okumura! Older, wiser, taking care of Takamine. My favorite kind of uke :D Aurgh. I want more.

They're making a live-action movie~

This is a long ass Yaoi with switching, but the couple usually sticks to a younger seme/older uke dynamic.

So. Much. Drama. And angst, and shouting, and it gets a little confusing sometimes. But I read the whole freaking thing and it's entertaining to say the least. I love how much the couple loves each other.

Also! there's one page with spanking : >

Huh. This was the first time reading Huck Finn for me.

Huck's keen observations while maintaining a lot of innocent was good. The humor was good. I want to write a fanfic for the two fraudsters, of course. They're practically canon.

However: Yeah, the end was totally a cop out. Twain lost his nerve and pandered to his audience, and the story lost its impact.