khyie's Reviews (267)

I just got really bored with it.  I might go back because I can't think of anything actually bothersome about it and I was interested in the mystery of just what was going on with the MC but it wasn't holding my attention.

 It was alright at first, though still very much a cute-MC-who-can-only-sell-cute story which I usually end up DNF'ing anyway just because I get so bored with them. Also there's something incredibly bothersome about the childish MC and usually the ML falling in love with them either in a form that is... really odd or really creepy. This one wasn't quite as bad as most of them and I was, at points, genuinely entertained by the MC's insistence that he was a super tough guy and that the ML was his wife and he needed to get taller so that he could raise him better. On the con side, again, the MC was mostly there to sell cute. He was both a super genius but also really, really naive and childish. He was, of course, perfect at literally everything he attempted, blowing everyone out of the water, and the ML was only 20 but somehow, even though he hadn't even graduated yet, living on his own, insanely rich even after being cut off by his family, and had an elite group of super secret special agent types working for him that were even better than anything the royal family could offer him. Still, it was entertaining and I was mostly having a good time until about 80 chapters in when the story suddenly switched tracks entirely, dropping the entire original supporting cast, all original plot threads and abilities that were being developed, and suddenly became a post-apocalypse farming novel. I would hope it was eventually going to go back to it's original plot although the how of it was beyond me unless they introduced some ridiculous deus ex machina (I would not actually put it beyond this story tho) and I wasn't here for it. So I'm done here. Not the worst cute-pet-MC novel out there but yet another on the absolute mountain of them that I have DNF'd 

A bit darker than common stock of contemporary yaoi as the MC in this book has a lot of internalized homophobia that he struggles and fails to deal with.  It's a better conflict than these stories usually come up for why their might be mutual pining going on, but it doesn't make for a particular fun story to read and the MC is sometimes a real jerk.  That being said, it wasn't a bad story.  It did feel a bit like it wrapped up too neatly though.  

The bit about him looking for serious love doesn't actually seem to be a focus of the book at all.  It's mostly around the MC's biases and stereotypes regarding city folk and country folk.  It's otherwise a pretty standard, fluff, contemporary story.  The highlight of the book though was the ML's fear of bugs and just how far he would go to avoid them.

A short story about a beta who's rumored to be able to help alphas find their fated pair if they date him so he has a couple of disastrous relationships before getting entangled with an alpha who likes him so much he has pheromone blocking surgery to prove he won't leave him.  I didn't find it as funny as I think it was trying to be but YMMV