Boys Love /yaoi manga and novels recommendations for July 2014

Boys Love /yaoi manga and novels recommendations for July 2014

Boys Love manga and novels for July 2014

Sandra from JapanReviewer features a series of boys love manga or manhwa from South Korea in her articles that are true jewels to be discovered, however, not all are exactly yaoi stories but rather shonen-ai. However, there is a growing diversity in the narrative and subjects at hand:

Tamer titles like Boy Princess by Seyoung Kim are aimed at ages 13+, Roureville by E. Hae is aimed at ages 16+ while Let Dai by Sooyeon Won is aimed at age 16+ as well. In stark contrast, U Don’t Know Me by Rakun has a Parental Advisory notice and is aimed at those readers who are 18 or over. And it’s not hard to see why when there are intense sex scenes and nudity in places.

You can read more on her article here. I’m really curious about Boy Princess and Roureville:

Titles like Boy Princess, Let Dai, and Totally Captivated don’t show the sex scenes normally associated with yaoi rather than shonen ai. Instead they use romance, storytelling and the possibility the lovers in the manga might be separated to create some conflict. In Seyoung Kim’s Boy Princess, Nicole, a boy is sent to a a neighbouring kingdom to pose as a girl princess to marry their prince and in turn unite the two kingdoms to prevent war. Instead Nicole has an accident with some apples that convince Prince Jed that he is not a princess. What he doesn’t expect is him falling in love with the young man. In the manga, you will only find partial nudity, mild sexuality and romantic situations that serve to bring the couple closer together.

Meanwhile, Sandra also recommends in Rainbow Book Reviews  the On the Run anthology series, tales of love and lust between the pursuer and the pursued, set in the 1940’s.

Lately I recommend the Cut & Run series by Madeleine Urban and Abigail Roux, a story about Special Agent Ty Grady and Special Agent Zane Garrett, two FBI agents who were partnered by their sadistic boss precisely upon their seemingly irreconciliable differences.