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AI NO KUSABI THE SPACE BETWEEN THE NOVEL VOL. 3 NIGHTMARE (ADVANCE REVIEW) |
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Sunday, 22 June 2008 |
 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | DIGITAL MANGA PUBLISHING | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | REIKO YOSHIHARA / KATSUMI MICHIHARA | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | WESTERN / B&W | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 174 | | | ▪ | RATING: | | M | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 07/08/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 06/22/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | HOLLY ELLINGWOOD |
At last the three years with Iason Mink are revealed in the expanded version of Ai No Kusabi. Riki served three years as Iason’s pet. In this volume of the novel series discover exactly what happened between these two men, and the betrayal and horror that Riki learned of upon his release. Forced against his will to be a pet to Iason Mink, Riki must be trained to be the perfect sex slave to the arrogant Tanaguran. First on the cold Blondy’s list is to break the dark slum mongrel of his hard won pride. The task proves more difficult, frustrating and ultimately more exciting than Iason could have imagined. What the reader witnesses is a level of dehumanization that is shocking, more so towards the end of the novel when upon his release, Riki learns exactly where the “furniture” in Midas actually came from and “its” fate. The servitude not only shows Riki’s change as he is slowly broken by Iason, but also Iason’s own devolution as he contends with his obsession with Riki. For Iason no emotion is acceptable, yet his reactions to Riki are anything but indifferent curiosity. It leads to a strange fall from station for both of them as they each must deceive those who know them in order to maintain the disdain and attitudes expected of them. Yet when Riki is released he learns that even though a slum mongrel would do anything and sell anybody in order to advance their station and survive, there are some things Riki will not abide and the horror behind the “furniture” is one of them. But what can a mere mongrel from Ceres do against Midas? And when he learns of the depth of the betrayal surrounding him, even more layers of existence as he knows it are about to unravel. This is like no shonen ai/yaoi that I have ever read. It is solid science fiction that pushes the boundaries of erotica as it explores an unsettling foray into bondage, submission and true sexual slavery and obsession.
IN SUMMARY:
The third novel in the Ai No Kusabi series provides an unsettling view into the three years Riki spent with Iason and the even more disturbing discoveries he uncovers on the way to his destiny. |
