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Trapped Wizard
Explicit Adult Content! The wizard Archiebund always forces the gorgeous demon Scythe to do his bidding, but one day his chants go wrong and Scythe gets control of him! Now the demon has a chance for some very sexy and creative revenge.
52 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 3, 2012
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About the author
Yamila Abraham
178 books424 followersYamila Abraham founded the publishing company Yaoi Press in 2004 and published over 50 graphic novels, many she wrote herself.
Abraham is a prolific writer of male/male romance, yaoi, yaoi graphic novels, science fiction romance, and erotica. She's known for explicitly detailed love scenes and dynamic premises. She wrote two of Yaoi Press' best selling series: Winter Demon and Dark Prince. Her best known ebooks include Maelstrom, UnPrison, Alien's Bride, and the Vanquished series.
Abraham has been a speaker or guest of honor at 150 anime fan conventions.
Abraham is a prolific writer of male/male romance, yaoi, yaoi graphic novels, science fiction romance, and erotica. She's known for explicitly detailed love scenes and dynamic premises. She wrote two of Yaoi Press' best selling series: Winter Demon and Dark Prince. Her best known ebooks include Maelstrom, UnPrison, Alien's Bride, and the Vanquished series.
Abraham has been a speaker or guest of honor at 150 anime fan conventions.
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December 30, 2014
Trapped Wizard
OR
Seriously, Throw Away The Key
I spent over a year debating if I actually wanted to read this thing. After a year of debate, I said, hell with it! Give it a shot, if you haven't forgotten it after so much time, it's got to be worth something, right?
....Right?
I should have known better.
I liked the setup. Enough to come back after over a year of contemplating. Wizard messes up his spell and ends up his demon's captive? Hell yes, I say! Fantasy and gay things and bondage, all right up my alley!
Well, it certainly had fantasy, the world is littered with odds and ends to remind you of the fantastic just in case you had forgotten over the last two pages.
Gay? Yup, but this is a book born out of yaoi, so all the gay is very, VERY stereotypical. There are very clear Rules about Who May Do What To Whom and the view of homosexuality is frankly offensive at points, including one guy declaring he is only gay for his love interest and otherwise totally straight. (Yes, that can happen for people, but this was done to underline how masculine the top was while the bottom was feminized at every turn).
Bondage? Nnnnnnnnot really? They don't even really play with the servitude aspect beyond about one scene. The rest of the time, it's not really there. There's some recreational drug use, but that's really as kinky as the sex gets.
And despite having two of the three requirements, I was only disappointed.
The biggest problem is the pacing, which is clearly designed for manga. In a manga, it probably works with pictures conveying more emotion and the story needing to proceed quickly due to limited page count.
But in a pure prose format? It's a crushing fast pace that does the work no favors. There's a wink and a nod in the direction character development and world building. But both of those are things that, especially in a fantasy novel, work better if they are actually given the time to build and develop. And this novel bounced from brief plot interludes to brief sex scenes to some more nods of plot, sex, and then a brief ending.
Really, I was just left wishing that someone had taken the time to write this novel properly. A big sprawling gay fantasy epic with bondage overtones. Why is this still withheld from me?
OR
Seriously, Throw Away The Key
I spent over a year debating if I actually wanted to read this thing. After a year of debate, I said, hell with it! Give it a shot, if you haven't forgotten it after so much time, it's got to be worth something, right?
....Right?
I should have known better.
I liked the setup. Enough to come back after over a year of contemplating. Wizard messes up his spell and ends up his demon's captive? Hell yes, I say! Fantasy and gay things and bondage, all right up my alley!
Well, it certainly had fantasy, the world is littered with odds and ends to remind you of the fantastic just in case you had forgotten over the last two pages.
Gay? Yup, but this is a book born out of yaoi, so all the gay is very, VERY stereotypical. There are very clear Rules about Who May Do What To Whom and the view of homosexuality is frankly offensive at points, including one guy declaring he is only gay for his love interest and otherwise totally straight. (Yes, that can happen for people, but this was done to underline how masculine the top was while the bottom was feminized at every turn).
Bondage? Nnnnnnnnot really? They don't even really play with the servitude aspect beyond about one scene. The rest of the time, it's not really there. There's some recreational drug use, but that's really as kinky as the sex gets.
And despite having two of the three requirements, I was only disappointed.
The biggest problem is the pacing, which is clearly designed for manga. In a manga, it probably works with pictures conveying more emotion and the story needing to proceed quickly due to limited page count.
But in a pure prose format? It's a crushing fast pace that does the work no favors. There's a wink and a nod in the direction character development and world building. But both of those are things that, especially in a fantasy novel, work better if they are actually given the time to build and develop. And this novel bounced from brief plot interludes to brief sex scenes to some more nods of plot, sex, and then a brief ending.
Really, I was just left wishing that someone had taken the time to write this novel properly. A big sprawling gay fantasy epic with bondage overtones. Why is this still withheld from me?
September 15, 2018
It started off well but went off the rails once the Wizard,Archiebund, is introduced and he visits the demon, Scythe, whom he has trapped below the palace.
The story was written to be satirish/comical but fell really short. I found it to be a bit annoying and was very unsatisfied with the story. Archiebund and Scythe are really sappy when they interact since Archi who is "supposedly straight" is in love with Scythe but hides behind intellectual threats and banter about spells and whatnot but in actuality could be construed as the two dancing around each other to hide their attraction to each other since they both consider the other an enemy. The writing and behavior of the characters just seemed very exaggerated and the banter between Archi and Scythe was really annoying. It just didn't work for me.
The cover looks fantastic and was one of the reasons I was thrown to give the book a read.
The story was written to be satirish/comical but fell really short. I found it to be a bit annoying and was very unsatisfied with the story. Archiebund and Scythe are really sappy when they interact since Archi who is "supposedly straight" is in love with Scythe but hides behind intellectual threats and banter about spells and whatnot but in actuality could be construed as the two dancing around each other to hide their attraction to each other since they both consider the other an enemy. The writing and behavior of the characters just seemed very exaggerated and the banter between Archi and Scythe was really annoying. It just didn't work for me.
The cover looks fantastic and was one of the reasons I was thrown to give the book a read.
February 14, 2021
Still not getting a hang of it. Manga really isn't for me. It was just... weird.
March 1, 2013
Didn't make much sense, jumbled plot and storyline, not worth the time.
February 10, 2015
Love it
Trapped wizard was a good read love it. To just 45 minutes to read it I love every single minute wish it had a book two for it!
Trapped wizard was a good read love it. To just 45 minutes to read it I love every single minute wish it had a book two for it!
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