Amazing Grace

by Mariko Hihara

Masatake Kuji is an informant to Nango, a police detective.
Nango treats him like a whore and orders him to act as a watchdog over Song, a priest of a little church in Roppongi.
Kuji first met Song when he served a jail sentence and fell in love with him when Song visited the jail.
Kuji starts to work as an organ player in the church and reports all the names of people Song meets.
He is curious to know why Nango wants the information.
At a meal distribution site he meets a man who works for homeless people and comes to know Song's hidden stories.



The love story of sacrifice and atonement.

Genres: Yaoi, Light Novel

144 pages, Paperback

Published May 27, 2016

About the author

Mariko Hihara

Author of over 50 novels, mainly Yaoi (boys' love/BL) and fantasy. She also writes scripts for manga. Six manga titles have been published so far.
She lives with many cats.

Visit her website and find more books.

Reviews

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wasn't going to write a review for this because i didn't think it was going to be that deep of a story. Yaoi/BL-novels often are pretty shallow and just fun if you overlook some details, often relationships have a "fine line" (aka thick as a rope line) of being abusive but disguising it as a romantic possessive/obsessive "love".
But this one is not only well written but it's story where the main character, who is a young man named Kuji who has had a troublesome past, is working as a spy for the police but falls in love with the man he is spying on.
The thing with this story though is that it's a tragic story, abuse and rape does occur. And there is a lot of questionable choices from each character. But what i think makes this story different from the other stories is that it seems like Kuji doesn't seem to know how to properly express his emotions to the man he loves and therefore acts bad - probably because of all the abuse he has lived through in his past. Since he was abused in jail and also by Nango i think it's left it's scars on him and I think he was just trying to express himself in the only way he knows how. But this story also shows how he changes overtime. And this story does a good job at showing the characters as humans, and not just flat personalities with only one goal in mind.

So yeah, I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I loved the ending, which was beautiful.

[Funzee Shu · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't expect the ending to be like that. It kinda sad....but also beautiful...