Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #Forced(3)

An old style romantic fairytale with a yaoi spin. A lonely prince forced to marry according to tradition and not for love and the poor but sweet boy who gets selected to be the unwitting bride. This is the kind of story where misconceptions and anger have the prince lashing out at his bride and using him cruelly because he believes that the boy he thought was beautiful is a gold digger. It made me feel super sorry for the uke to be forced and treated so coldly when he deserved kindness and respect. The prince needed to feel more pain for his treatment of his bride, I would have liked to see a bit more suffering tbh. Still, it’s literally a HEA for the pair and they are going to be alright in the long run.

Not the most comfortable read, but with a yandere seme and an emotionally damaged uke, a normal and sweet story wouldn’t make sense. I really liked the obsession between the two, and how each needed the other. I also liked how the uke was fully capable of dominating the seme at times. The manipulations were satisfyingly dark, especially once you realised they were both guilty of doing that on occasion. Finally openly accepting each other was perfect, and I loved how it seems the seme still isn’t fully aware of how manipulative the uke can be. These MCs are made for each other. For the future, it’s probably safest if nobody tries to come between these guys.

Trigger warning: Rape These two intertwined stories set in the Omegaverse were so good! In the first story delinquent Kuma lived to fight and could easily take down multiple thugs. One of his favourites to go toe to toe with was Hachi, another dangerous delinquent and Second in the Hachi group, but during their latest fight Kuma goes into heat... From that point these two come together forcefully, but they become a very cute couple, particularly the cheerful Kuma who loves stuffed bears and learning to be the wife Hachi needs. The second pair are Mitsorou from the Hachi group and Suzume, Second of the Amatobi group. Suzume had fallen for Mitsorou at first sight but the reserved older man had no interest in romance. Until a broken engagement and being abducted leaves him in a vulnerable position and Suzume proves himself to have his own somewhat crazy version of maturity and trustworthyness. Suzume is adorable and persistent in his pursuit, he really is so loveable.