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Desire: Dangerous Feelings (Yaoi Novel) (Yaoi Novels) |  | Author: Maki Kazumi
Creators: Yukine Honami, Christina Chesterfield
Publisher: Digital Manga
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 449889
Media: Paperback
Pages: 250
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 1569705739
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781569705735
ASIN: 1569705739
Publication Date: January 28, 2009
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Product Description
With a few simple words uttered by his best friend Ryoji-Toru's world flips upside down. It doesn't help that Toru has secretly been in love with Ryoji for some time. But whereas Ryoji wants a purely physical relationship to satisfy his curiosity-Toru wants more. Can the two ever come to terms with how they really feel about each other?
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Delightful! June 5, 2009
Dim S. Zagklis
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's probably one of the best and sweetest yaoi novels I have read. Yes, we have doubts, jealousy, secret love, passion, lust, misunderstandings, all the recipe for a typical yaoi novel, BUT the difference lies on the characters and how vivid and convincing they are. I can't possibly stress enough how important for a novel is to have convincing characters who feel and sound *real* and their actions are based on human psychology rather than on some unfathomed whim.
As other reviewers have already talked about the plot, I won't repeat it here. I will only say that here there is indeed a story to be told, there is plot and convincing turns in it; there are characters deserving our attention and sympathy, as their feelings and thoughts sound genuine and speak truthfully straight to our hearts.
As for the sex scenes, well, they were realistic, tasteful, aesthetically perfect, describing a lot and yet setting the reader's imagination on fire for what was not yet "said".
Although the whole novel is written from Toru's point of view, there is a last chapter where we come to know Ryoji's feelings, doubts and thoughts. I think this chapter was the best conclusion to the story and the most satisfying ending Maki Kazumi-sensei could give us. I take it that Ryoji's final chapter was her present to her readers, and I'm really grateful to her for that.
If there is something that made me feel awfully sad was Keigo Kashiwazaki, a minor character in the story... You should definitely read it. It gives great insight and adds depth to the characters and their actions, so much that it is almost like a new work when compared to the original manga.
Last but not least Yukine Honami's illustrations were exactly right for "Desire".
I look forward to reading more of Maki Kazumi's work.
Zagklis M., Mrs
this is one of the good ones April 3, 2009
uber_neko_zero (FL, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
forgive the shortness of the review... i've done so many of these now... -__-
art= superb
story= excellent
characters= wonderful, and fully fleshed out
XXX= extremely well done
buy it.
also check out 'constellations in my palm'. (by the same person). it is another 5 star. ('rin' 1-3 was amazing as well, but i don't remember if it was the same artist. though it shares many of the same qualities.)
Oh so sweet February 8, 2009
Lady in Red (Seattle,WA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a truly sweet and satisfying yaoi novel. It reminds me a lot of the "Ring Finger" series of books but with a little more sizzle. And the English translation is so good! None of the awkward wording that permeates the Ring Finger stories. The characters are very young (16 or 17) so I'm a bit surprised with how sexually active they are but the sex scenes are tastefully written. Ryoji, the seme, is quite a "player" who surprises even himself with how strongly he falls in love with Toru, the innocent uke. The majority of the story is told from Toru's point of view, but, very interestingly, the last chapter tells it from Ryoji's perspective. I haven't seen this in any other yaoi novel. There are the usual twists and turns, the usual jealousy, but a refreshing sweetness. This is a good book for anyone who wants to have their heart warmed.
Exactly what I was hoping for... February 5, 2009
ibshafer (Fishkill, NY)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Something about this story, the sweetness of the characters, the transformation and the depth of their feelings, the satisfying resolution, has kept it as one of my favorites for a while now. I don't know why it struck me the way that it did - I've certainly read enough now to compare. Many stories have stronger characters or more extravagantly drawn illustrations, more passionate encounters, more compelling stories. But something about this story, again, struck a chord in me. I adore it. I love them all. I wished it hadn't ended so abruptly (I always want more...), but I was satisfied.
To learn there would be a novel version of it was thrilling and I speculated what that would bring. More insight into the characters? More detail to their encounters? More story - a continuation of the story set out in the manga?
I am pleased to say that this novel delivered all of that and more. (Including some lovely new illustrations by artist Yukine Honami.)
Toru is sweetly confused, confounded by his love for Ryoji, and finds himself in a Catch-22: this could be his only opportunity to get close to the one he loves, but doing so could end up hurting him even more. Ryoji is a dog and a scoundrel who, in the end, realizes that his heart is in control more than his desire.
The novel takes us up the end of the manga, and then, sweetly, beyond, as their love is affirmed and reconfirmed and their passion for each other reaches its fullness. Again, I just adore these two. Others might see them as stereotypes - the shy, tepid uke, the selfish, scoundrel seme - but I see them as two boys who were already friends when they found each other and who now only want to make each other happy.
Maki Kazumi's simple, but beautiful novel is an equal match for Ms. Honami's simple, beautiful drawing style. The story they tell makes me hungry for more, makes me want to know what happens next...
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