檻之外

堂野 & 喜多川 #2

by Narise Konohara, Sakae Kusama (Illustrator), 木原音瀬

別れから六年経ったある日、堂野崇文は、自宅近くの公園で喜多川圭に再会した。喜多川は「ずっと捜していた。一緒に暮らしたい」と告白する。六年前とまったく変わらぬ一途な想いに堂野の心は乱れ、連絡先を教えてしまう。が、すでに堂野には妻も子供もいて…。『箱の中』待望の続編!せつない二人の物語『雨の日』や『なつやすみ』など、大量書き下ろしを収録。

Paperback

First published May 25, 2006

Reviews

[Sophie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I honestly don't know what to make of this. I absolutely loathed the first part - for various reasons it made me furious. The short middle part was good, and the last part was, tbh, freaking amazing. However, all in all and especially taken together with volume one, the last story didn't feel like it belonged with the rest.

My main quibble is that to me it’s like she couldn't decide whether she wanted to write BL or a “serious“ novel. Why does she have to decide? There are shortcuts I will let slide in BL which I find unwilling to forgive in “serious“ novels, and to me it feels like she had to take some of those in order to make it work. The entire events and characters of these novels seem too much and implausible. I mean it when I say that the last part feels like a different novel - if the entire work had been like that I would have liked it a lot better.

I just am not sure what she wanted to accomplish here. I am aware that other authors I like do things similar to her, but always in a way that works for me. Ultimately I don't think she's a bad author- I actually think she's a good author - but just not for me.

The underlying sexism really pisses me off, though.

[⋆˙⟡♡ sam ♡⟡ ⋆˙ · Rating 5 out of 5]

“If you’ll be happy with me, I’ll stay by your side.”

[Tabby · Rating 5 out of 5]

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