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Aug. 15th, 2008 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
insanenekoI spent a little too much time reading Amazon Japan reviews...Initially I was stocking my shopping cart in preparation for a massive book buying spree, but I ended up getting sucked into clicking around to read the reviews. There's one author who is praised for having endings that leave a bad taste in your mouth. Is that really praise? XD; Another author apparently features a lot of violence (particularly DV) in her books, so one book with only "slight" violence is duly noted as such.
Another novel features a masochist with a dark past (naturally) who is "loved" by two (very different) men. The reviews all praise how the men are so nice to the masochist when not in S&M mode, but I don't know if I'd like the switch. It reminds me too much of BL where (typically) the seme is such a bastard at times, but everything is good because he's so "nice" at other times. Maybe this one is different because it apparently follows S&M conventions rather than being a relationship between a sadistic bastard and his pathetic victim.
Another novel features a masochist with a dark past (naturally) who is "loved" by two (very different) men. The reviews all praise how the men are so nice to the masochist when not in S&M mode, but I don't know if I'd like the switch. It reminds me too much of BL where (typically) the seme is such a bastard at times, but everything is good because he's so "nice" at other times. Maybe this one is different because it apparently follows S&M conventions rather than being a relationship between a sadistic bastard and his pathetic victim.
