8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
So entertaining!, February 19, 2009
This review is from: The Guilty, Vol. 2: Original Sin (Paperback)
This yaoi novel is so entertaining - I couldn't put it down! The second volume of the series picks up where volume 1 left off with the relationship of Toya and Hodaka. Hodaka is a rich, handsome, talented author who (despite all his cool charm) is socially awkward and inexperienced in relationships. He seems to really get off on being sadistic during sex. Toya is the cute little (although they say he's 27 years old, he acts about 16) uke who loves being emotionally abused during sex. So they're perfect for each other! A new character, Amano, is introduced in this book. He is young, tall, and of course good-looking and sexy. Amano falls for Toya. Just as Toya decides he can't stand not having Hodaka's whole heart, Amano makes his move....The ending is all that you could ask for. Angst, despair, drama, love, sex...you get the picture. This is such a fun book to read! I enjoyed Volume 1, but Volume 2 is even better in my opinion.
However, if you get squeamish with S&M, although all in good fun, you had better leave it alone. Plus this is triple XXX
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A decent guilty pleasure, something smutty and easy to read, November 23, 2009
This review is from: The Guilty, Vol. 2: Original Sin (Paperback)
Toya Sakurai is an editor at Sozan Publishing. Recently, he found success when he discovered a new author named Kai Hodaka. His first novel, Emergence, is a bestselling hit. What nobody knows is that Toya had to pay a hefty price to persuade Hodaka to write. Hodaka used to challenge Toya to a game of pool. If Toya won, Hodaka would write 20 pages. If Hodaka won, he would get to do whatever he desired with Toya's body. Eventually, Toya fell in love with Hodaka and broke up with his fiancée to be with him.
Now Toya must ask him to write a new novel, but Hodaka demands to keep playing his game. Toya finds that his secret love is eating him up inside. Hodaka is a distant and cruel lover, unable to verbally express his affection for Toya, causing him to second guess if Hodaka even loves him back.
Meanwhile, Sozan Publishing is so pleased with Toya's work that they ask him to find another novice author who has the potential to become a new best seller. Toya happens to come across a book that bears a striking resemblance to Emergence by a young author named Yo Amano. Amano is a kindhearted young man with modelesque good looks who finds himself quite taken with Toya. When Hodaka notices that Toya's found himself a new protégé, his jealousy causes him to be all the more cruel.
Caught between the two men, Toya can't let go of his feelings for Hodaka no matter how much Amano tries to make him realize that the relationship is abusive and virulent. And when Toya gets wind of a possible new girlfriend in Hodaka's life, he realizes that he needs to make a decision: Confront Hodaka or break it off completely.
It is difficult to say exactly who should read The Guilty, Vol. 2. With its adult themes and explicit sex scenes, it is clearly meant for mature readers. The story and translation are rather simplistic and it becomes the type of book to breeze through on a plane ride or on a commute; but on the other hand, it's too long and has several graphic images that could leave a reader self-conscious about reading it in public.
This book is far from being anything epic, but the best quality it has is that it's relatable, especially to the female audience it is intended for. Almost everyone has had a relationship of some kind where a lack of communication and understanding has caused suffering. If a reader is looking for a decent guilty pleasure, something smutty and easy to read, The Guilty, Vol. 2: Original Sin will certainly deliver.
-- Courtney Kraft
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Seme Rules!, April 20, 2009
This review is from: The Guilty, Vol. 2: Original Sin (Paperback)
I read the first book and thought it was pretty good but...this story just got better in the second vol. I loved when he told Amano that he only let him have Toyoa for a short time. Toya thought Hodaka didn't care about him and it was a onesided love.
When the younger author said Toya was on his private time and Hodaka told him that he has first rights to all Toya's private time, I thought Toya would object. He pushed the younger author away and left with his lover. Now that is a true Seme with his personal Uke that he is not willing to let go.
This is a romance story in which the Seme reminds me a little of Yuki, from Gravitation. He loves his lover but doesn't know how to express it. Yum yum!! Buy the book you won't be dissapointed, I promise.
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