Book Review: Entangled with You: The Garden of 100 Grasses by Aki Aoi
Title: Entangled with You: The Garden of 100 Grasses
Author: Aki Aoi
Published: Seven Seas, 2022
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 185
Total Page Count: 529,725
Text Number: 1941
Read Because: browsing graphic novels shelf at..., hardback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: 2.5 stars, bumped up for my favorite. One novella-equivalent with a Beauty & the Beast vibe and a few short story-equivalents, all gentle BL. Very gentle: tender, sexless dynamics, that, without either heat or friction, are a little bland. The exception is "Corrosion," which is weird and embodied and much more memorable. The art is beautiful, especially (and somewhat ironically) the loving, detailed backgrounds against which vaguely undifferentiated pretty boys wander. All told, I'm not wild about this.
Author: Aki Aoi
Published: Seven Seas, 2022
Rating: 2.5 of 5
Page Count: 185
Total Page Count: 529,725
Text Number: 1941
Read Because: browsing graphic novels shelf at..., hardback borrowed from the Timberland Regional Library
Review: 2.5 stars, bumped up for my favorite. One novella-equivalent with a Beauty & the Beast vibe and a few short story-equivalents, all gentle BL. Very gentle: tender, sexless dynamics, that, without either heat or friction, are a little bland. The exception is "Corrosion," which is weird and embodied and much more memorable. The art is beautiful, especially (and somewhat ironically) the loving, detailed backgrounds against which vaguely undifferentiated pretty boys wander. All told, I'm not wild about this.