Product Description

Tomoyuki was headed to England for work, but in an attempted robbery he is rendered unconscious. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself in a palace in the desert! Brought to the Kingdom of Madina for the pleasure of their future king, Aswile, Tomoyuki protests at being abducted and locked in the palace - but he is easily pacified by a single kiss. Will Tomoyuki let the arrogant Aswile contine to toy with him?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #286287 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781569707111
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Pretty impressive Yaoi novel
It has been a while since my last Yaoi novels, "Don't Worry Mama" and "OTRFK" as I was not too impressed with the translation then.
So I am pleasantly surprised with how much the translation has improved with "Eternal Love" which I have to admit I picked up because of the lovely cover.
Eternal Love has a nice plot, with angst filled moments. Tomoyuki has an established career, as work was the only thing he could rely on to forget his foreign lover who left him 6 years ago. So when he was kidnapped by said lover, Aswile, and woke up in a palace in the middle of the dessert, he was in emotional turmoil. Does not help that Aswile is to be married and crowned king of the oil rich nation soon, even if he refused to give up Tomoyuki. Aswile has his own problems. He is your typical forceful seme but endowed with foreign features from a deceased English mother, life has not been easy for him. He has to prove to his father and people and live with his "differences" all through his life. How this pair of reunited lovers reconciled 6 years of misunderstandings and emotional conflicts and end up together despite the odds is an enjoyable and angsy read. There are tense moments in the plot and a few interesting supporting characters like Aswile's cousin. Too bad this cousin prefers women! The one thing which I find a bit lacking is the mangaka's failure to explore Aswile's feelings better even though she does a fine job expressing Tomoyuki's emotional ups and downs. I like how it all panned out for the lovers and I am surprised at how well the sex is written in the last chapter.

The graphics interspersing the novel are really pretty. Overall a nice Yaoi novel and I certainly will be getting more.

About the level of a bad harlequin sheik romance
I've been reading all the new June BL novels, and while I like some, this one seems to be filled with the most ridiculous plot of all of them. It's like a bad sheik romance novel from the 80s. My summary:

A Japanese guy and an Arabian prince have an affair in London, then the prince has to go home to stabilize the country because his father's dying. Six years later, his father is still dying O_o, but since the prince set a wedding date the country is more stable. So he kidnaps the Japanese guy and sticks him in a harem and tries to imprison and rape him nicely. >.< Meanwhile, the Japanese guy is whiny because the other guy a) never called him once, and b) (kind of a big one) is getting married. But he just can't stay mad whenever they have sex because what little brain he has seems to be located below the waist. Plus he's still in love and he doesn't really mean to be mad but gosh darn it he keeps saying things that perpetuate the problem.

That's just the beginning. It gets worse. This book was incredibly annoying.

It's telling, I think, that the most interesting thing in the book to me is the heterosexual romance that crops up in the last third or so of the novel.

Skip this stinker!
First let me say that I love the yaoi novels that June publishes. They have come a long way since OTRFK v01. But this title should have been left on the shelf.

I can forgive the stupid, cliched "sheik love story" and the fact that it was ridiculously predictable. What I can't stand, is that I was supposed to find anything endearing about the whining, useless uke in this story.

First complaint, the uke, Tomoyuki, whined on every single page that he made an appearance - seriously! He had absolutely no redeeming qualities. This was a pointless story. I didn't read this wanting the two guys to get together in the end. I read this hoping, wishing and praying the seme would run as far away from this wimpy uke as possible! Even the smutty scenes weren't hot because Tomoyuki was whining about how he didn't want to do it. Being an uke isn't synonymous with being a whiney, little wuss!

Which brings me to my second complaint. The author seemed to depend too much on those kind of stupid stereotypes that ruin good yaoi stories. The uke was a crying, nagging "woman" and the seme was a cold, sex machine. The seme, Aswil, didn't really speak much in his few short scenes. He usually just proceeded to force himself on Tomoyuki and then would exit - stage left. I guess from a couple of looks Aswil gave Tomoyuki; we were supposed to divine Aswil's true feelings. But I just couldn't understand why Aswil would persist on pursuing what I consider to be the worst uke I have ever come across. Tomoyuki thought he was a useless person and definitely not good enough for Aswil. I'm inclined to agree.

It's not much of a yaoi love story if you DON'T want the seme and uke to end up together.