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Eternal Love (Yaoi Novel) | 
| Authors: Mizumi Takaoka, Yukariko Jissoji
Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $8.95
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Rating:  6 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 250
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1569707111
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781569707111
ASIN: 1569707111
Publication Date: June 18, 2008
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Condition: clean text tight binding fast service
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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?
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 Surprisingly Good Read December 27, 2008
Michalyn (Towson, Maryland USA)
This was a surprisingly good read. I had really low expectations of this book when I first saw it and I almost didn't buy it. I thought it would follow the pattern of the usual "Sheik captures uke" yaoi manga/novels in which the uke is not only taken to a far away country against his will, but while there he is also taken against his will by the seme yet still professes his love for his rapist in the end.
Eternal Love thankfully moved away from this formula enough for it to be enjoyable. Tomomyuki is kidnapped by Aswil but apart from one dubiously consensual scene, there are no brutal rape scenes. There was very little sex in the novel, period. I also found Tomoyuki's inner turmoil, his resolve to return home even in the face of his conflicting feelings towards Aswil to be fairly realistic. I appreciated that he didn't spend his time simply pining for Japan but actually took concrete actions to try to get himself there.
Of course, with this kind of book there is always the problem of explaining how a person who kidnaps his lover is anything but an abusive tyrant but even this I thought was handled quite well. Aswil's motivations are not completely credible but the author gives enough glimpses of his own weaknesses and the societal pressures he feels to allow the reader to (somewhat) suspend disbelief.
Finally, there is a kind of poetic justice in the end in that to gain Tomoyuki's love, Aswil has to experience a loss of freedom similar to Tomoyuki's before they can find any semblance of happiness. This wasn't a perfect read by any means but overall I thought Eternal Love was a well-plotted story with surprising depth for its genre.
 Eternal Love by Mizumi Takaoka September 6, 2008
Elisa Rolle (Italy)
Not that I read many, but usually the yaoi novel are all quite... hard-core. I often think to them like little porn; maybe for the format, the print book is so small, rather cure, but inside they are scorching. Not Eternal Love: this romance is almost innocent, the only sex scenes are old style the type in which all happens behind closed doors.
Tomoyuki is a young Japanese business man; while studying in England six years before he fell in love for a college mate, Aswil, an arabian guy with a mystery halo around him. Aswil had almost a royal behavior, so proud and aloof. After months of blissful love, Aswil was forced to return home, but he promised that he would return for Tomoyuki. Months after Tomoyuki found that Aswil was the king's son of a little Arabian country and that he needed to marry for political reason. Tomoyuki gave up to their love and returned to Japan.
Now six years later, Aswil lures Tomoyuki into a trap and drags him in his country. He holds Tomoyuki in captivity, even dresses him up as a woman in the women quarters of his palace. When Tomoyuki asks for his behavior, the only excuse of Aswil is that he makes all for love, that he wants to respect the promise he made to Tomoyuki. And Tomoyuki even if he is still in love with Aswil, can't accept to loose his freedom and to be treat like an object by Aswil.
As I said the story could be very more erotic than it is. It's not that Tomoyuki and Aswil didn't have sex, it's only that you don't read about it. Only the first time you have a bit of information on the almost non consensual sex Tomoyuki has to suffer, but then you only read about the regret of Tomoyuki, on how he feels guilty and how much he wants to run away from Aswil, but the reader can't quite understand it since he doesn't know what happens between them. This romance resembles a bit the "sheikhs" Harlequin, the sweet romances which take inspiration from the "historic" bodice rippers of E.M. Hull, The Sheikhs, and which inspired the famous movies with Rodolfo Valentino. In those romances, the sheikh is always a mourning man, who sweeps the heroine from her quiet life to drag her in the desert, better if on the back of an horses... you know that the sheikh, in the shadow of the tent, makes passionate love to the heroine, but you don't read it. Same here: you know that Aswil does something to Tomoyuki, but you haven't the privilege to be present... well I feel like the author robbed me of something!
On the other hand, this is maybe the first yaoi novel I read where there are also other characters other than the two heroes, and maybe it's since the two heroes need to do something else since they aren't always in the bedroom...
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