Nicole B. (noisechick) reviewed on 9/7/2009 + 95 more book reviews

Three stories. The stories themselves are ok (one a fantasy of a half-demon youth taken prisoner in a circus, one a gang member being reunited with his reform school love, and the last a dark tale of an abused slave rescued by a cop in the backwoods of Idaho.)

The art is... cartoony and immature in the first 2 stories, pretty good in the last.

While very MA - (the last story disturbingly so with it's real world setting) - it's that type of yaoi that shows "everything but" - whiting out the naughty bits. (If this was genuine Japanese work, I could understand that cultural bias, but this is an online American publication. So it's just annoyingly parroted.)

Needless to say, the second anthology didn't look any better and I'm passing on it. Half the joy of this genre is the art, so this was disappointingly amateur.

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