Rainbow Reviews

BOOK BLURB:
In Nagasaki, newspaperman Ryuu Shimada falls in love with a young guy who resembles his lost love in Tokyo. A novel by a woman who's been reading too much yaoi.

BOOK REVIEW:
Shimada has a very controlling older brother, Daitaro, who interfered with his life to the point of helping to break him and his boyfriend, Seiji, apart until he left Tokyo for Nagasaki to start all over again. Shimada goes into a noodle shop and sees a young man, Yoshi, who looks just like his lost lover. One night Shimada is out walking when he happens upon Yoshi in a difficult situation with an overbearing man never expecting that his assistance will be the action that may just change both their lives.

Yoshi ends up loosing his apartment placing them in close quarters where their budding interest blossoms into a relationship they never expected. Their lives settle into a comfortable life until an unexpected offer of the perfect job for Shimada has them questioning a move back to the city that neither thought to ever return to, Tokyo. What will happen to Yoshi and Shimada return to Tokyo? Will their love stand the test of time as they face challenges they never expected?

Ms. Mayerson wrote this book to exercise her history of Japanese yaoi stories, but in fact she has written a book filled with love, laughter, and enough heart to satisfy any reader, especially anyone who loves Japanese yaoi stories. The androgynous descriptions of Yoshi make him seem quiet and subservient, but in reality he is so much more. Shimada is a mixture of a world-weary man who has seen the worst of life while he is still open to taking a chance of a new love. It was fascinating to watch all the difficulties Yoshi and Shimada go through upon returning, but with help from an unexpected source they just might find what they were missing, family. Thanks go to Ms. Mayerson for an incredible read.

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