Forum - View topicREVIEW: Past Life Countess, Present Life Otome Game NPC?! Novel
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whiskeyii
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Is this a standalone novel? Also, the cover seems to imply a female love interest. Is that handled well, or are we looking at more of a predatory lesbian setup here? >.>
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Seagloom
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It is. Based on this review, I guess I'll pick it up. Sounds like it plays with genre conventions in an interesting way. |
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Princess_Irene
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No predatory lesbian. This is one of my favorite releases of the last couple of months. |
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#HayamiLover
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Um, neither the synopsis nor Rebekah's review even suggests there are such characters. One way or another, judging by the positioning on the Internet, at least the authors see it as a typical otome harem.
In general, if we talk about queer love interests in straight romance, then you can see that female-focused works are usually more tactful in this than male ones. I literally can name just a few LN, VN or manga for boys where the so-called "gay option" character was not full of homophobic or at least sexualized stereotypes. |
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whiskeyii
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Fair point! I'm just used to that particular type of "mine" image being used to convey a very specific type of yuri pairing, so I thought I'd check to be sure. ![]() |
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nobahn
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I am trying not to be pissed off here; but, really, this is too much.
So I am immediately intrigued by a standalone book. But then I start looking at the details. I can deal with e-format files; but I have a Linux system and it would appear that none of the offered apps are compatible with Linux. Are you serious???!!! Maybe I'm just missing something here. ![]() Google Play doesn't work. So apparently you're supposed to buy separate hardware in order to read these proprietary files. That's crossing a red line for me; I don't care how much Rebecca Silverman is impressed; for me, this is a deal-breaker. |
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Princess_Irene
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That sucks, I'm sorry.
![]() (It makes me sad when people can't read books, and this was part of my concern with the rise of digital-only or digital-first publishing.) |
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murdock_tm
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Bookwalker's Web app (get some free samples to see if it works for you?) is decent for providing eBook content within a web browser with customizable layouts (colors, font size etc. They do *not* provide good eReader support however). Also if you can somehow get iTunes working, Cross Infinite World's publications on the iBooks store tend to be DRM-free. |
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