Fruit of the Tongue
7 Interesting strong quick read.
How to Be the Chosen One
8 The mc is so shameless, it's so iconic. He’s the master of bullshitting. No wonder it’s the same author of virgin witch. They really do feel related lmao It’s SO FUCKING FUNNY. This made me laugh soooo hard. It kinda reminds me of Single Not Ready to Mingle, but even better i think. There’s so many pop culture references it’s so fucking funny. “Wanna worship and chill” “fifty shades of abroria” And the religious dirty talk is so hawwwt. It feels so unholy to read lol, but really spicy eheheh The religious fanatism anecdotes are really poignant too. Chill inducing really. I hate the priest ml so much. He legit scares me I was reading it for shits and giggles. It was overall so light hearted and hilarious the whole time. But it suddenly shifted into such a heavy theme with the priest raping scenes. It broke me out in sobs…. the way the mc just tries to be complacent and gaslight himself that he’s not being raped since he knows he can’t escape either way so he’s trying to take back as little control as he can to survive through it. I’ve never seen such a triggering and raw insight into a victim’s mind during rape in BLs. I expected this to be a “turning your brain off” smutfest, but it sobered me right up. It’s so accurately written that makes it that much more triggering. It very accurately depicts PTSD from SA and what goes through a person’s mind while it’s occurring— which was completely unexpected from this series and well, made it incredibly triggering. I’m almost desensitized to rape in BLs since it’s so freaking common. For better or worse it’s usually romanticized the heck out of it, so you just kinda compartmentalize and be like “yaoi logic, just gotta turn off my brain for this one ig” But this time, it was so rawly depicted from the person’s being raped POV that it was sobering (and triggering)
Bloody Lies
8 Much better than I expected. Yes the art was a bit wanky at times and the dicks looked demonic in some panels LMAOOO. But the psychological aspects to it were so yummy. The gaslighting and slight paranoia… ugh. It kept me guessing everyone’s intentions too (including the mc’s). The plot was scrumptious even if not revolutionary so far (other than the great mental game). Can’t wait for s2
Single Not Ready to Mingle
8 It’s so so much better than I expected. I thought it was just gonna be a In the castle 2.0 smut fest (I mean, I still enjoy that genre a lot lol) but it was actually also a really good isekai story. There’s so much satire of bl tropes it’s absolutely hilarious. It’s so unseriousssss, I love it. The smut is also pretty hot. And the mc has a fucking backbone. We love that. And surprisingly there’s also very touching moments between characters with sad backstories. As well as mystery elements regarding the OG hero, the dreams, the dif Aegio etc. I’m enjoying it so much more than I thought I would! HOWEVER I can’t stand purple hair. Every time I start feeling the slightest bad/empathetic towards him, he does something barbaric yet again to remind me why I hate him so much in the first place. I hated that the mc ended up just submitting to him smh. He ended up acting just like the mcs he was making satire of
Paladin's Eden