Cannonball Read 18

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“On this island where gemstones bloom like flowers…there lived a powerful demon king.”

Dear Demon King by Emu Soutome

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There’s so much here that I like and it just didn’t click for me as a whole — magic, BL, interesting world building, solid art — none of it enough to make this something I really enjoyed. Dear Demon King has a complicated setup about a world where the demon king Kougyoku rules over a floating island full of magical beasts, and also the island has all of these gemstones full of magical power on them that humans want, and fifty years ago the humans attacked […]

I understand less than half the words in that sentence, but God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee

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“Are you going to be sick?” I raise my head. The duke is gone, but Helena is on the window seat, twisting her necklace around her fingers. I don’t answer, because I don’t believe a prisoner owes his captors any sort of report on his health. That, and if I’m going to be sick, I’d prefer to do it all over her, and I’d prefer it to be a stealth attack. ― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue On paper, Henry “Monty” […]

“I seem to have caught the eye of a real handful of a guy.”

Real-Time Fever by Taberu Kasumi

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Real-Time Fever follows Shizuka, a university student who livestreams as an anonymous cam model. He likes the attention of people seeing him and he has a crush on his favorite commenter, “Shiro.” One day he accidentally calls Shiro while he’s masturbating and saying his name, and it turns out that Shiro is actually a student at his school, Kurosaki. Kurosaki figures out that Shizuka is the anonymous cam model and blackmails him into doing a class group project together. If Shizuka wants his side work […]

“Even stuff like trash and dirt can sparkle brightly when light shines on it.”

Even When You Close Your Eyes, You Can See the Light by Maki Marukido

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Major spoilers follow throughout this review. I have mixed feelings about this one. I did enjoy it and thought it was an interesting story, but there are big parts of the work that make it probably impossible for me to recommend to the average person. Jin is an adult film star and a top who gets paired with Hikaru all the time for the gay porn company they work for, Cherry Bonbon. Cherry Bonbon makes gay porn aimed at women, and the part of the […]

“I’m bored if you’re not around.”

Here and There and Us (Volume 2) by Thanat

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Major spoilers follow throughout this review! This was a letdown from the first volume. In this book, university entrance exams are coming up and initially Sokoki and Majima get dinner together after cram school every day, so their friendship continues. However, the assumptions that they keep making about how the other person feels, especially combined with Sonoki’s nervousness around Majima and his decision to pull back from their friendship, means that they spend a lot of time here talking to other people about what’s happening […]

I don’t wanna ruin my life, but I wanna go home with you.

Counterpoint (Twisted Wishes #2) by Anna Zabo

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An alternative title to this was “Like Hannah Montana, but make it adult, queer, and with a healthy dose of BDSM.” Domino Grinder is a rockstar. With spiked hair, makeup, leather pants, copious tattoos, and a black-lipsticked sneer, he is the guitar god of the rock band Twisted Wishes. As soon as the show is over, Domino removes his makeup, peels off his skintight outfit, and morphs into his true self: nerdy, book-loving, bowtie-and-glasses-wearing twink, Dominic Bradley. Twisted Wishes has gone from radio-favorite-up-and-coming band to […]



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