Love

by Suilan Lee

Kyo Tatsuya is a painter working his way through college and selling his paintings to earn a living. He grew up an orphan living in a foster home with two foster siblings, a brother and a sister.

And then he meets Ryuu Shin at an art exhibition who takes him to meet his real mother. Due to a bad experience in his past, Kyo doesn't believe Ryuu's claim that he has found Kyo's mother.

Ryuu's determination takes him back to his real mother's house, and a love he never would have found were it not for Ryuu Shin.

Genres: M M Romance, Romance

49 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 4, 2012

About the author

Suilan Lee creates fiction set in a boy meets boy world. She has written The Reluctant Consort, The Prince and His Royal Guard, The Assassin, and The Morgan Lore, among others.

When she's not writing, she teaches others how to farm sustainability. She lives with her husband, and their beautiful family of four.

Reviews

[DC · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars
For the most part this is a sweet story but I think it really should/could have been more. Considering this was supposed to be a romance between Kyo and Ryuu, there wasn’t a lot of interaction between them. Rin seemed to get more air time than Ryuu. I also didn’t like that I got the feeling that Kyo was pushing his adopted family aside. The ending was way too abrupt and barely HFN. This story would have benefited greatly from a decent epilogue.
As far as the writing goes, this was full of the typical spelling/grammar issues (wrong verb tense, misspelled words, etc.) found in this author’s stories.

[Soraya · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very short read, mostly centered on a young man who's just met the mother he never knew. Forgiving her and learning to balance how he was raised with what he could become are the real plot of this story.

[Riayl · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wanted to like this more but after I finished I was left with the uncomfortable feeling that Kyo was giving up everything that meant anything to him to please his birth mother and to be with his lover. I think I'm supposed to see this as them giving him everything, but the only thing they really gave him was money. He already had a family - one he liked - now he finally has his mother, but the rest of his "real" family appears to be a loss. He had a flourishing start to being a well-known artist, something that not only fulfilled him, but gave him joy. Now he is going to be the heir to the company - something he finds no happiness in, something he isn't interested in, something he is only doing to please his mother and his lover. I didn't like that it seemed like his mother and his lover were a package deal. Like, if he chose not to be part of the family, or not to be "the heir", that he would lose not only his mother, but also his lover. While both of them supposedly loved him so much, it didn't seem like they ever really bothered to get to know him (but I guess since they investigated him they felt like they knew all they needed to know) and they only seemed interested in changing him to fit what they thought he should be. So, at the end, I just couldn't see this as a happily ever after. I felt like someday something was going to break, and it was probably going to be Kyo.

I guess I just hit a wrong note with this story and never recovered.

[Ashly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked Kyu and Ryuu. I liked how when they first met in the beginning. I liked Kyu attituded but it disappears in the end. I didn't like how he gave into his real family, how he took the family name. It was fast, I know it was about ten months but it was quick to me. The other family members was mentioned but was never in the story. I picture this as a Jdrama, it had that vibe to it.

I got this for FREE on Amazon for Kindle.

[Laura Susan Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love (Ai) is a moving short love story with good writing and characters. It's about the self-imposed separation of a struggling and talented artist from his lover, so that he can concentrate on his career which is on the verge of great success. I enjoyed the backstory of how the lovers met, and many secrets and surprises are revealed. Enjoyed very much!

[Furio · Rating 1 out of 5]

This little, short romance has two problems:
first, its plot is probably influenced by manga narratives and its characters behave so irrationally to Western eyes as to make it absurd;
second, it is too short; too many transitions appear abrupt and it never manages to introduce the reader to its exotic setting.
That is why a potentially intriguing story ends by being nonsensical.

[M'rella · Rating 2 out of 5]

A yaoi novel. Little bit of angst, little bit of sex. Lots of eye-rolling. 2 stars.

[Thomaidha Papa · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 Hearts
Review written for MM Good Book Reviews

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