Embracing Love 5
by Youka Nitta
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Author: Youka NittaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-01
ISBN: 193344018X
Number of pages: 216
Publisher: Be Beautiful
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Book Review: Another fabulous English language release for the genre.
Summary: 5 Stars
I was only going to give this volume four stars, but then I reconsidered and I'll tell you why: BeBeautiful's fabulous work. Their translations are always well done (even when they do less than commendable things like laughably stating obvious child characters as adults *coughMidaresomenishi: A Legend of Samurai Lovecough*) and in this volume they even included an interview they did with Youka Nitta herself. They always include character profiles and the "story so far" page, which is very helpful when they sometimes make us wait 6 months or more between releases. This time around was not one of those long waits, though. Embracing Love 5 comes just a few months after the release of Embracing Love 4 and my hat's off to you guys for it, BB. Thank you very much!
As for the story itself there is a lot more of the same old, same old in this volume (which would have been the reason for giving it four stars). The easily predictable outcome carried over from the not-really-angst in volume 4 might have been completely boring if it were not for the well played emotional relationship Nitta has developed between the two men. And let's not forget to mention the hot love scenes as well. Considering that the main storyline only comprises half of the book, and in most of the first half of the main storyline Katou and Iwaki are separated from one another, we can forgive that we only got two of these scenes this time around. The scene I really liked, though, was the extra short story "Always Asking for the Moon," where a somewhat insecure Katou and a comically stoic Iwaki talk about hairstyles of all things.
The second half of the book is a period piece (Meiji era-1860s-samurai love story) called Winter Cicadas and, while the ending is a bit heart-wrenching, according to Nitta herself at the end of the book it has some carryover "prequel" allusions to the Embracing Love storyline (reincarnation, anyone?), so we're supposed to be more hopeful about it than upset.
If you're in love with this series, by all means pick up volume 5 as well, if you are browsing this title for the first time, you might have trouble getting into it since the characters and situation are already so well established that you don't really get that kind of backstory explanation anymore. I would recommend checking out an earlier volume instead.
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