犬ほど素敵な商売はない

Pet Loversシリーズ #1

by 榎田尤利, 志水ゆき (イラスト)

悪い子だ。発情してしまったのか?

自覚のあるろくでなし・三浦倖生は、うだるように暑い夏のある日、会員制のデートクラブ『Pet Lovers』から『犬』として、寡黙で美しい男・轡田の屋敷に派遣される。そこで倖生を待っていたのは厳格な主人・轡田の厳しい躾の日々だった。人でありながら犬扱いされることへの屈辱と羞恥。そして、身体の奥底に感じる正体不明の熱…。次第に深みにはまっていくふたりだったが!?

究極のコンプレックス・ラブ。

Genres: Japanese Literature

248 pages, Paperback

First published June 26, 2006

About the author

Yuuri Eda is a Japanese Light Novel writer.
The genre of her works is Boys Love (BL).
Her debut novel is「夏の塩」(2000).
Yuuri Eda was one of the disciples of Azusa Nakajima ( 中島 梓, pen name of Kaoru Kurimoto / 栗本 薫.
She uses the pen name 榎田ユウリ for her general audience (not BL) works.
※Her two names in Romanization are the same.

榎田 尤利（えだ ゆうり）は、日本のボーイズラブ小説家。
7月16日生まれ、蟹座、O型。
2000年「夏の塩」（成美堂出版 クリスタル文庫）にてデビュー。同作品は、1996年『小説JUNE』77号に掲載。
『小説JUNE』にて連載されていた投稿作批評コラム「中島 梓 (栗本薫の別名義)の小説道場」の門下生。文章力に定評があり、物語性のある作品が多い。シリアスからコメディまで、作風は多様性に富む。
BL以外のライトノベル作品は、〝榎田 ユウリ〟で執筆している。

Reviews

[Commie Simpson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another example of really questionable story but so well-written that it's absolutely annoying, frustrating, but goddamn touching at the same time. If these people do exist in real life, I refuse to give them any sympathy as I honestly don't give a damn about how they screw up their lives and wallow themselves in sentimentalism and excuses or whatever. As fictional characters, well I still think these peeps suck but their life stories and the ways they think and act are so well-portrayed I just can't stop reading and then despise them and sympathize with them and then despise them gaaaahhh.

It's a really well-written book and I really enjoyed it but I refuse to give it anything higher than a 3/5.

[Eli Malavasi · Rating 5 out of 5]

In general I liked this book. Even tho it talked a lot about pet play it was not too sexual. But I found the top really unstable and difficult to understand, sometimes he was really affectionate and suddenly he was cold. It was explained in the end but I'm not sure I really bought it. I pitied the bottom a lot and I hope he will live a good life from now on. I also saw that there are other books in the series so I will probably take a look at it.

[Sophie · Rating 4 out of 5]

While this is probably not for everyone and even I kept thinking, "Wow, this is fucked up" if I'm honest I really liked it (mostly because of the fucked-up-ness). I would have liked it even more if we had a chance to really get to see the seme's POV, too - because we don't, the relationship between the two of them seems really unbalanced and unhealthy, especially in the middle. But I liked how she tried to show the psychology behind the pet play. And I did like Yukio a lot. If he was my friend in RL, I'd tell him to run, and run fast, but since this is BL I'm happy for his happy ending.