Beautiful illustrated story with a nostalgic, heavy feeling to it. It's slow paced, what helps build up the atmosphere of that time. Given the period with it's restrictive social norms, Laurents behavior is realistic and Arthur's act of resigning of his land and title to go after the male servant of another manor is quite a scandal. Carel, as the master of that manson can be seen as the protector of those two, as he allows them to be together under his roof far from peering eyes. I enjoyed the story. Although I do understand the little frustration one can get as a reader, for the desicions which are made, as lots of us are used to the quick paced progress and 'i don't care what others think, let's just be together'-attitude in most other BL/yaoi. But then again, the historic setting has to be taken into consideration.
Beautiful illustrated story with a nostalgic, heavy feeling to it. It's slow paced, what helps build up the atmosphere of that time. Given the period with it's restrictive social norms, Laurents behavior is realistic and Arthur's act of resigning of his land and title to go after the male servant of another manor is quite a scandal. Carel, as the master of that manson can be seen as the protector of those two, as he allows them to be together under his roof far from peering eyes. I enjoyed the story. Although I do understand the little frustration one can get as a reader, for the desicions which are made, as lots of us are used to the quick paced progress and 'i don't care what others think, let's just be together'-attitude in most other BL/yaoi. But then again, the historic setting has to be taken into consideration.