Comadrin's Manga

That was a good one. Fun and funny characters, a certain amount of action, and a nice message. Thank goodness the theme is something other than "He's rich, handsome, and horny and she's beautiful, dumb, and craves his touch" (Putting it that way because I'm actually trying not to be vulgar).

I liked it. They were both pretty decent people and both had some trauma in their past. Unfortunately, I have known people like her psychotic nutcase stepmother and her gullible moron father. I'm afraid that my reaction on finding myself in her situation is to cut such people out like a tumor.

Not totally bad, but I couldn't get into it. After 22 years in the infantry and two combat tours, the idea of putting your life on the line for fun and thrills leaves me cold. I've just seen too many thrill seekers die what I can only think of as stupid deaths.

I liked it. The characters were pretty fleshed out instead of being the 2D cardboard cutouts so many of these HQ stories have. The story was pretty good also.

I kind of liked the plot, and definitely liked the niece, but the two main characters gave me a pain. The ML definitely looked down on the FL, and I never saw an ounce of respect for her in his words or actions. She was pretty juvenile in the beginning, but he was way older, and should have expected some of that and been prepared to deal with it and NOT by treating her like an idiot child. He goes crazy when she meets an old boyfriend (although she completely shut the dude down), but he hangs out with "she's only a friend" who looks (and acts) like an obvious hoe. He jumped to conclusions, but was totally butthurt and clammed up when she did the same thing (with more excuse for it than he had), and yet was completely sure that he was the objective and mature one of the couple.

I read a couple of chapters and decided that it was definitely not my cup of tea.

Kind of a cute story, but it suffers from the same thing as all the other Harlequin "Sheikh" stories, to wit: a lamentable lack of understanding about the culture the story is supposedly set in. That syndrome seems to have started with Rudolph Valentino's "The Sheikh" from 1921.

I liked the FL, but the ML was as pushy as hell, as well as being a sexual harasser. His conduct on first meeting her was not up to the gentlemanly standards I was raised with, and to point out that she was too poor to buy his leavings (the cottage she loved) when he was bored with it was really cad-like and patronizing conduct.

Old Professor Roofie should have gone to jail; preferably with a cell mate who was in jail for killing someone who attacked his sister.

Wow! Horny, rich, and dumber than a box of rocks. What a combination for disaster.