1. Everything was rushed. Hardly anyworld building. The author is very much a "teller" and not a "shower" when it came to showing how Trap City and the different gangs worked. All we see of the villain is that he supplies drugs, but used them to keep sex slaves. Where does he get the drugs, who are all his buyers, why is nothing in depth at all? The world was very bare bones, and we only know what we needed to know to just get the story out there. Author plays up this city like it SHOULD have detail and yet there is absolutely no substance there. 2. Romance was super rushed. Practically no build up, a standard "they jump into sex" but then afterwards there was hardly any cute scenes or anything genuinely romantic to show the feeligns start to really build. It was all "youre housebound and cant leave lets have sex" and "we met once in the past so obviously i fell in love with you at first sight" bleh. What a standard trope. I felt nothing towards this couple tbh haha 3. Author has no idea how gangs work because nothing was shown and it was giving "soap opera/wattpad" standards 4. Rape. Our MC in the beginning of the story was feeling the withdrawal of the drugs hed been forced to take by the villain. This drug made him want to be held by someone (the villain particularly), with no memory or recollection of what he did or was forced to do when in these states, something the villain used to control and keep him. First thing our ML does when he finds the MC in this state is have sex with him! No consent, no care to what MC might have been through, especially considering he was told what the MC had experienced at the hands of the villain literally RIGHT before this.
~Thats the definition of rape babes~
Also who the fuck would be okay with trying to escape from a an evil man who sexually abused him while drugging him, and then be okay with a random man he just met (to his knowledge at that time) fucking him while he was going through withdrawals and obviously didnt know what was really going on? Who the fuck would be in the situation and be totally okay with a stranger doing that to him. The author plays it up like he should be super grateful he was rescued but this is literally right after he meets this dude. Our MC has lived in this gang infested city his whole life and knows how dangerous it is to trust anyone considering thats what he has preached to others his whole life, and yet is totally okay with the guy he just met assaulting him when in the throes of drugs, after escaping from another man who did the same exact thing?
This story literally felt like the author wrote the bare minimum yaoi just to say theyve written a yaoi. The art was nice, but the story was SO lacking substance, rushed, and honestly really stupid.
Definition of what Id call "popcorn yaoi". Which is really disappointing considering the plot sounded unique and the world of BL is really lacking in that
Ill be honest this was super mid (spoilers)
1. Everything was rushed. Hardly anyworld building. The author is very much a "teller" and not a "shower" when it came to showing how Trap City and the different gangs worked. All we see of the villain is that he supplies drugs, but used them to keep sex slaves. Where does he get the drugs, who are all his buyers, why is nothing in depth at all? The world was very bare bones, and we only know what we needed to know to just get the story out there. Author plays up this city like it SHOULD have detail and yet there is absolutely no substance there.
2. Romance was super rushed. Practically no build up, a standard "they jump into sex" but then afterwards there was hardly any cute scenes or anything genuinely romantic to show the feeligns start to really build. It was all "youre housebound and cant leave lets have sex" and "we met once in the past so obviously i fell in love with you at first sight" bleh. What a standard trope. I felt nothing towards this couple tbh haha
3. Author has no idea how gangs work because nothing was shown and it was giving "soap opera/wattpad" standards
4. Rape. Our MC in the beginning of the story was feeling the withdrawal of the drugs hed been forced to take by the villain. This drug made him want to be held by someone (the villain particularly), with no memory or recollection of what he did or was forced to do when in these states, something the villain used to control and keep him. First thing our ML does when he finds the MC in this state is have sex with him! No consent, no care to what MC might have been through, especially considering he was told what the MC had experienced at the hands of the villain literally RIGHT before this.
~Thats the definition of rape babes~
Also who the fuck would be okay with trying to escape from a an evil man who sexually abused him while drugging him, and then be okay with a random man he just met (to his knowledge at that time) fucking him while he was going through withdrawals and obviously didnt know what was really going on? Who the fuck would be in the situation and be totally okay with a stranger doing that to him.
The author plays it up like he should be super grateful he was rescued but this is literally right after he meets this dude. Our MC has lived in this gang infested city his whole life and knows how dangerous it is to trust anyone considering thats what he has preached to others his whole life, and yet is totally okay with the guy he just met assaulting him when in the throes of drugs, after escaping from another man who did the same exact thing?
This story literally felt like the author wrote the bare minimum yaoi just to say theyve written a yaoi. The art was nice, but the story was SO lacking substance, rushed, and honestly really stupid.
Definition of what Id call "popcorn yaoi".
Which is really disappointing considering the plot sounded unique and the world of BL is really lacking in that
oh well. To each their own I guessヽ(`Д´)ﾉ