Love Skit Manga Review

Author: Rie Honjou
Artist: Rie Honjou

Genra: Yaoi

Year: 2006

Original Publisher:

BIBLOS (2006) 

Libre Shuppan (2009)   

Volumes: 

 1 Volumes (Complete)

 Licensed (in English)

Yes
English Publisher
801 Media 

Summery
1 & 3) Love Skit
After his sister's death, high school student Aoto lives with his brother-in-law Takashi that he is secretly in love with. Takashi has to go on a business trip and asks his friend Masayuki to keep an eye on Aoto. Aoto doesn't know how to handle the flirty Masayuki.

2) I Only Care About You
Includes a side story about Aoto's friend, Akira.

My Thoughts on the Manga
Yes this manga is a mature yaoi manga is a 18+ yaoi so if you haven't tried to read yaoi before I suggest not to start with this manga. As well as if you don't know what Yaoi means I recommend looking it up so you don't have a heart attack hehe!

Let the water works roll!! no not really but I came close multiple times to crying while reading this manga. I do have this book on my shelf somewhere, it would be easy to fine though since it's published by a different company not June. So far there is now 3 company's out there printing Yaoi manga! woot woot!!!

The characters in this story is so cute and memorable not to mention sexy. Aoto is a 17 year old highschool boy who is in love with his dead sister husband Takashi. Aoto would rather be in pain of hiding his true feelings then tell Takashi them. He has a quite but fun personalty and loves to beat around Masayuki who is Takashi's friend. He hates how he reacts to Masayuki though he still has feelings for Takashi. Masayuki is very straight forward in wanting what he wants and that is Aoto. Masayuki is a kind guy even if he is a pervert, he would do anything as long as Aoto is happy even if it means giving him up to Takashi. Takashi is a very navie guy who doesn't know that his dead wife's brother loves him. He only thinks of Aoto as someone who resembles his ex wife and never looks at him any differently. He only wants to make Aoto happy in any way possible even though they aren't releated by blood he still thinks of him as family.

The Romance is slow but sweet, though Masayuki does what ever he can to attack Aoto. With kisses or even touching in the wrong places but Aoto always beats him before it goes further. Aoto slowly starts to get use to Masayuki advances and starts to let him do things to him for longer periods of time. Then finally they do it and it's just so mouthwatering. Like I said above it's a graphic Yaoi novel so be sure your use to Yaoi before reading this manga.

The plot for this one volume manga is great, I loved every moment of it. It centers around a kid name Aoto who is in love with his dead sisters husband Takashi who took care of him even after his sister died. He hid his feelings from Takashi for a long time, he would rather be hurt then tell him his feelings. Then Masayuki come and things changes, as Masayuki starts to put the moves on Aoto, Aoto feels himself turning away from Takashi and look towards Masayuki more and more. The story is filled with heart renching scenes that will either make you cry or come close to it. Not to mention the cute side story with Aoto's friend Akira.

Manga Design




This manga is full of beautiful drawings, I really love this Mangka because I do recconize her style of drawings and I've read many of her other works. She has a great style and I love how this mangka draws. Each page is either fully detailed like the top of the page on the left, or it's semi detailed like the below panel on the left. The characters are detailed in their hair and face, knowing their expressions fully. The characters are either cute or manly catching your attention of how good looking they are (for a drawing anyways). You will really love this manga because of the story line and how it's drawn!







Overall
I do very much love this story, it's cute and the characters are great, I highly recommend this manga. Also you must be use to Yaoi because this Manga is very graphic.

Rating
5 out of 5 Howling Wolves

The Forever Girl by Rebecca Hamilton Review

The Forever Girl

Author: Rebecca Hamilton

ISBN: 9780985081812

Release Date: January 26th 2012
Format : ebook

Genre:  Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy, 

Young Adult, Magic

Series: Forever Girl Series #1

Summery
Sophia Parsons’ family has skeletons, but they aren’t in their graves...

Solving the mystery of an ancestor’s hanging might silence the clashing whispers in Sophia's mind, but the cult in her town and the supernaturals who secretly reside there are determined to silence her first.

As Sophia unknowingly crosses the line into an elemental world full of vampire-like creatures, shapeshifters, and supernatural grim reapers, she meets Charles, a man who becomes both lover and ally.

But can she trust him?

It’s not until someone nearly kills Sophia that she realizes the only way to unveil the source of her family's curse: abandon her faith or abandon her humanity. If she wants to survive, she must accept who she is, perform dark magic, and fight to the death for her freedom.

My Thoughts on the Book
This book was…wow…I never thought I would like a book that centers on a witch. I don’t like witch books but since this had other supernaturals in it I decided to stick to it and finish reading it. I am so glad that I finished this book!!! It was great I loved every moment of it and I hated it when the book ended, I just hope the second book comes out sometime soon.

I enjoyed the characters they was a mix of different personalities. Sophia is a  newbie Wicca she doesn’t have many friends because of what happen long time ago and how everyone thinks she is studying the dark magic. Which is wrong because she only practices the good magic. She has a strong personality and is really stubborn when it comes to her relationship with Charles. She isn’t close to her family but she does have two friends Ivory and Lauren. There is not much interaction with Lauren but Ivory is in it a bit more then Lauren before she disappeared and reappeared halfway through the book before disappearing again. Charles is a sexy guy, though he can not make up his mind about anything. He wants Sophie but then he doesn't want her. You learn many things about him that keep you attracted/interested to him hehe!

The Romance in this book goes around in circles a lot. If you thought Twilight was bad with Edward hating himself and not wanting to be with Bella because he's a vampire then this is just as bad. Charles wants to be with Sophie but he shouldn't because of what he is. Then he goes and kisses her before breaking apart and change the subject. He then asks her to move in so he could watch over her but says she's to stay in the guest room but wants to be near her. . .like I said it goes around in circles for a long while. Sophie is no better she's confuse by how he acts towards her even when they feel the same way towards each other. Besides all the running around in circles they do end up together and they act so cute together. He's sweet and takes care of her, this book is diffidently not for teens because of how the describe the sex scene but otherwise it was a great romance from the middle onward.

The plot was so fun!! I really loved the plot it centers around Sophie and how she learns about another world she never knew before. She gets more pulled into it when she learns about her heritage and about the people around her. There is a few twists in this book that would make you freak go "What!!" not to mention that the ending will leave you wanting more.

Cover Design

It is so beautiful!! I love her outfit and the Gothic look over her. The image really stands out and captures your attention right away. The model is so beautiful and the background is pretty too. Now I wish I could pull off that makeup on my eyes. The Title font is prefect with how it's placed in the middle of the book. Though it didn't need the "Forever girl series" at the bottom of the page. The bars under the Title is alright since it does match the orange background shown behind the girl.

Overall
I do recommend this book if you like the supernatural world and Witches. It's a great plot and once you get past the circles in the romance that's quite good as well. I'm sure everyone would enjoy this book.

Rating
4 out of 5 Howling Wolves

After I Win/Hoshigarimasen! Katsumade wa Manga Review

Author: Itsuki Kaname
Artist: Itsuki Kaname

Genra: Yaoi

Year: 2006

Original Publisher:

Houbunsha  

Volumes: 

 1 Volumes (Complete)

 Licensed (in English)

Yes
English Publisher
June

Summery
Beautiful and popular Nakatani Hiyori has fallen in love with his dormitory roommate and underclassmen Amano Kasumi. But being in the same room with the one you love day in and day out is a strain. From here, there is only one way to advance.


My Thoughts on the Manga
This was such a cute story, a bit fast moving but still cute. I'm pretty sure I've read it before, I probably have it on my manga shelf somewhere who knows but yeah I really do like the story!


Nakatani is a cute character, even though he's older then the other, he still acts just as cute. He doesn't know how to confess to the person he likes properly that he ends up getting hurt a few times. He's a bit preverted because of his brother and what happen in the past but otherwise he's just a big cutie who doesn't know how to express himself causing him to get nervous and get sick cause of that. Amano is cute and shy, he doesn't know if what he feels is the same as what Nakatani feels. He's also kind of slow but real sweat. I really like his character and if your wondering he's the brown haired on in the cover picture above.


As for the Romance, it moves quite slow because of how they have to deal with each others on insecurities about the relationship. Nakatani gets nervous whenever he's with Amano and gets sick to his stomach at the result. So they have to take it slow but it's sweat how they learn to be with each other and face their insecurities.


It's a great plot line showing how they first met and how they learned they both like each other. Then it shows you how they get over the small things to be together. Not to mention there is a cute sidestory at the end that tells you about Nakatani brother and a past releationship that has that character shown in the main story.


Manga design

This scene is from the second story and you see Nakatani brother. Anyways this Mangaka loves to put detail into each panel. Not only in a few pages, every page is almost as detailed as this. It's very well done and you can't help but fall in love with the characters because of how well it's drawn. This style of detail is what drew me into reading this manga, with all the detail put into it I wouldn't have read it otherwise. You can clearly see that there is detail in the hair and clothes not to mention the details in the face which you can clearly see what they are feeling. The characters are cute and memorable more so with the style they are drawn with.





Overall
It's a great short story and I do recommend reading it. It's not the best but it's cute and the romance is great when they get to it.

Rating

3 out of 5 Howling Wolves

In My Mailbox [8]

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at the Story Siren where you can learn about all the awesome new books I've picked up this week!

Here are the list of books I've receive in the last week with a link to their goodreads page:

Bought:

Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter


Free:


Won:

Special photo post
You guys probably don't know this but I do live in Canada yet I still enter contest meant for USA. Well Thanks to my friends mother who lives in the USA I'm allowed to enter those contests and have the prizes sent to their house then shipped up here and it's free! I don't have to pay my friends mother at all for shipping up here so I'm so very lucky and thankful for her!!

So below I have all the books that have been recently brought up here. LOOK AT IT ALL!! hehe I'm so excited to get started and read it. Not to mention WHEN THE HELL DID I WIN CINDER! I seriously don't remember me winning it @_@ which is seriously crazy!

and yes I've won everything here in a span of 2 months.

Malevolence By Devyn Dawson

All I want is you by Sherrill Bodine
Cinder by Marissa Meyer
The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe
Prized by Caragh M. O'Brien ( I gotta get the first one T_T )

Other books won:

Forever Girl by Rebecca Hamilton

Shepherd's Moon by Stacy Mantle
Me Before you by Jojo Moyes

Kimi Note Manga Review

Author: Junko
Artist: Junko

Genra: Yaoi

Year: 2010

Original Publisher:

Kaiohsha 

Volumes: 

 1 Volumes (Complete)

 Licensed (in English)

No

Summery
For some reason, Miyasaka finds himself absolutely enamored by the scent of his attractive male classmate Sawatari. But when he tries the cologne Sawatari recommends, the effect just isn’t the same–it has to be on Sawatari or the cologne won’t have the same effect.

A sweet story about the high school love between two boys.
Plus Three other unrelated stories.

My Thoughts on the manga
I've been trying to find the other three stories summery but I gave up on searching. It seems that the first story is the main one and whoever gave the summery only wanted to focus on that. Though the second story of the three extra's was really good, I will just talk about the first main story.

Miyasaka is a sweet normal highschool boy, who can get very jealous. He loves Sawatari scent and later starts to love Sawatari as well. To be closer to Sawatari Miyasaka buys the same scent that Sawatari owns but didn't know how to wear it and ends up putting on to much, which in turn draws the two characters closer together. Sawatari is a cutie, he loves how Miyasaka is straight forward and lets people know what's on his mind. Sawatari is quite a shy boy but also get's jealous when he see's Miyasaka around girls.

The Romance between those two are fast, since they both quickly fall in love and start going out. They even take a trip together and stay at a hotel togehter. It is all very fast but I guess that's what happens when you have only one volume to get the story across.

The plot is cute and exciting to read when you want to know what's going to happen next. The plot on all three stories is great too, espisially the middle one. There is only one plot line I didn't really like but I was glad that the other stories made up for it.






Manga Design
The design is cute, though not as good as other manga design's I've seen it's still just as good. There is detail in the backgrounds, if not a normal background then it has a gradient added to it. The boys of all the stories are cute and you can see a difference in them. There isn't much detail in the face but there is lots in the hair. Yeah I picked this page because of the chest image hehe!









Overall
It's an alright manga, I would have wished that the first story carried on more but it didn't. It's a good story if you like short stories.

Rating

3 out of 5 Howling Wolves

Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver Review

Pandemonium

Author: Lauren Oliver

ISBN: 006197806X (ISBN13: 9780061978067)

Release Date:  February 28th 2012
Format : Hardcover

Pages: 375

Genre:  Romance, Fantasy, Young Adult, 

Dystopian

Series:  Delirium #2

Summery
I’m pushing aside the memory of my nightmare,
pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana and my old school,
push,
push,
push,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence,
behind a wall of smoke and flame.

Lauren Oliver delivers an electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Delirium. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, forbidden romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite.

My thoughts on the Book
That is some sucky summery right there, it made me double read it thinking what kind of summery is that!

Can I say "OH MY F***** GOD" this sequel was so damn good. It took me two days and almost an all nighter to finish this book! I was so hooked right when I got it. I was contemplating at the time whether to finish Until I die arc or not. I did wait and I just wished there was so much more. It was so short though there is over 300 pages. It just felt so short to me, probably because i read 77 pages earlier but still I'm going crazy to get the next book! I want the next book to come out now!!

Get ready for a few new characters, because there are a couple different people. Lena stumbles upon a group of people in the wilds where she learns to live with them and to survive in the wilds. Raven takes her under her wing and teachers her. Raven is hard to like, I just don't like the fact that she's harden and doesn't show much emotion but I guess that's what happens when you live in the wilds. You have to be strong and hard to stay in the wilds but I hate her. . . I do like Sarah though! she's a cute girl not to mention she has the same name as me haha. Tack is a strange man, he's mean like Raven but you can also tell that he cares. Unlike Raven where you can't tell what's she's thinking and just feel like you want to continue to hate her. Then you mean Julian, oh he's such a cutie. He talks about how he kept getting brain tumor and the doctors had to cut out pieces of his brain to get out the tumors. Then he mention that if he gets the cure it might kill him but he doesn't kill. I thought he was crazy when he said that but then I notice it was in front of people because I would be scared at this. You find out later that he really is scared. He is sweet and loves to talk about his past to Lena and he is strong for a boy who only knows that Deliria is a disease. When he learns it isn't as bad as he was told to believe he was fine with it and grew closer to Lena. In this book Luna is stronger and passionate about the Resistance. She had to grow strong and leave Alex, Hana everyone she knew behind. She had to make a new name for herself and live by that name. She wasn't the naive girl from the first book who was scared of the new things Love brought with it. Now she takes that love, hides it within herself and make herself stronger.

The Romance in this story is really slow, that's right there is romance. It's between Lena and Julian, yes I know it seemed it would never happen but slowly things started to change between the two of them when they were captured. They began to talk, though Lena tried to keep everything to herself, Julian started to talk to her about things that happen in his past which caused her to talk. Slowly as the days passed they grew closer together, even when Julian found out who she really was it didn't take long for him to stay by her side. They are just too cute together and I couldn't help but love it when they kissed or when Julian showed his curious side. I was giggling during those times because it was just too cute the way he acted.

The plot was great, I loved it as much as I loved the first book. It was scary during the times when Julian and Lena were captured because you didn't know what was going to happen. Not to mention the twists all over the story and how Lena finds out something about her mother. It was all great and the get together between Lena and Julian was great too. The ending though is what will kill you in the end. IT WILL LEAVE YOU GASPING AND WANTING TO KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. Seriously reading the ending I wanted to bang my head against the wall over and over again because of how it ended. HOW CAN IT END LIKE THAT HOW!!!!!

Cover Design

The cover is kind of, bam! in your face with another face. It's not as pretty as the Delirium cover, it might be because of the fact that it's orange but it's just not as eye catching. Though I do love the title of the book, the lower case font for a title is different and fits right on the cover perfectly. Though seeing the author's name bigger then the title is a little off for me but still the peice works good. I do like the U.K version of the book cover more so the the America version it's just more pretty then this one. I do wonder what the third book would be like.




Overall
I do suggest that if you hate cliff hangers don't read this volume till the third book comes out next year or you will go crazy. I'm already going crazy with that OMG OMG OMG cliff hanger. This series is great and don't hesitate to buy it!

Rating
5 out of 5 Howling Wolves

Abarenbou Kareshi Manga Review

Author: Junko
Artist: Junko

Genra: Yaoi

Year: 2007

Original Publisher:

Shogakukan 

Volumes: 

 1 Volumes (Complete)

 Licensed (in English)

No

Summery
1) Naoto is Hajime's childhood friend. Naoto may look cute but then again, his attitude gets to everyone's nerves. Even though Naoto's like that, Hajime still has his eyes on him. But, the problem is, Naoto hates homosexuals, so much that he wishes they will become extinct and rot in hell!!


2) Shinji has always loved his younger brother, Haruki more than any older brother should. Yet when he receives an unexpected warning letter demanding payment on a delinquent loan, he is left speechless. With everything Haruki could ever ask for, provided by loving parents, he demands to know what it could be that would cause Haruki to be so greedy and so irresponsible. Can Shinji really handle the truth behind Haruki's unusually selfish actions? or will he give up on Haruki all together?

3)After his parents divorce, Hara Shuuji left Tokyo to live with his mother and attend the local school. With hopes of starting a new and peaceful school life Shuuji feels at ease when his first day starts out well. That is until a problem arises, a problem named Yoshie Kennichi, who carries the name of a "delinquent" with pride. Shuuji's first impression of Yoshie isn't good, but what's worse, is that his ideals for a peaceful school life are ruined when Yoshie suddenly recognizes him! Shuuji, a new student, has no idea how Yoshie can possible know him and frantically wonders, what in the world is going on!?

My Thoughts on the Manga
Out of all three short stories the second one is my favorite. The first one was alright and the third one is alright too. The second one just caught my attention more then the others did. I don't know maybe the characters just caught my attention more so then the others.

The first story were alright, Naoto is really funny character. Like the summery said he may look cute but he has a bad attitude where he likes to hit people if they flirt with him. Hajime has to be there before that happens. Hajime is really cute for liking Naoto for so long but never got the chance tell the other his feelings because Naoto hates gay people. That changes when Hajime gets into a accident and Naoto comes to visit. It's funny what happens between them and how it ended up where they started to date. Naoto still not use to the idea of dating never lets Hajime do anything else, so the romance is slow but slowly he opens up and lets Hajime love him. It's a sweet story and I love how it ends. 

The second story Shinji and Haruki are step brothers who live with each other. Shinji is the older brother who looks out for Haruki and secretly loves him. Haruki has a problem where he loves to pick up girls and sleep with them which left him in a debt and causes Shinji to yell at him but Haruki doesn't listen. One night when Shinji catches Haruki about to go out to pick up another women Shinji tells him he would be with Haruki. It's kinda exciting to read what happens next and you learn Haruki true feelings. Then it shows a story from the past where Haruki caught Shinji and stuff it's great and I really do love this story.

The last story the characters are funny, you have a deliquient Yoshie who is only nice to Shuuji. Shuuji can't help but think of Yoshie as that young kid from piano classes but seeing him at the school he is surprsed by how different he is. Yoshie see's nothing wrong with this and continues to hang off of Shuuji and always asks him to the piano room to play for a bit and to let him sleep on the matress. Shuuji learns later that, that room is actually used by the bad boys of the school who bring girls there to have sex with. When Shuuji learns this he gets mad and it's just so cute how they learn to be together and stuff and how Shuuji learns to love Yoshie as he is now and not who he was in the past.

Manga Design

I do love the way this manga is drawn. It looks like the mangaka takes the time to draw each scene of the manga.There is detail in the eyes, hair face everything. Though not every scene shows a background but where there is background it's so very pretty. The author knows how to draw really well and it works great in this manga. It's just great time spent into this short story manga I wished it was longer to see more of her pretty drawings.







Overall
I do like this manga, it isn't the best but the stories are great and you might like one of the three.

Rating

3 out of 5 Howling Wolves