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マフィアの愛は獣のように
兄の借金のせいで望まぬ結婚をすることになったセシリータ。そんな彼女の前に、初恋の人イサークが現れる。三年前、セシリータに裏切られたと誤解したまま、戦地で亡くなったはずの彼は、アルゼンチンでマフィアのボスになっていた。再会を喜ぶセシリータだが、彼は憎しみの眼差しを向け、彼女を連れ去り陵辱し続ける。だがある日、病に倒れたセシリータのうわごとから、三年前の真実と彼女の一途な想いに気づき――。
304 pages, Paperback
First published September 3, 2015
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華藤 えれな
96 books3 followers華藤 えれな（かとう えれな）は、日本のボーイズラブ小説家。
9月5日生まれ、乙女座、B型。京都市出身、在住。
1997年「彼からのスペシャルレッスン」（桜桃書房 Eclips romance）が初の単行本。
異国人×日本人or日系ハーフ、異類婚姻譚の作品が多く、作風はドラマティック。
Elena Katoh is BL (Boys Love) author of Japan.
Birthday: September 5, Zodiac signs: Virgo, Blood type: B. Born and live in Kyoto, Japan.
First published work: 「彼からのスペシャルレッスン」1997.
【Caution】There is a possibility that pirated editions are included in English page.
9月5日生まれ、乙女座、B型。京都市出身、在住。
1997年「彼からのスペシャルレッスン」（桜桃書房 Eclips romance）が初の単行本。
異国人×日本人or日系ハーフ、異類婚姻譚の作品が多く、作風はドラマティック。
Elena Katoh is BL (Boys Love) author of Japan.
Birthday: September 5, Zodiac signs: Virgo, Blood type: B. Born and live in Kyoto, Japan.
First published work: 「彼からのスペシャルレッスン」1997.
【Caution】There is a possibility that pirated editions are included in English page.
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June 4, 2017
This book will damage your brain cells and lower your IQ.
Now that you have been warned, here is an exhaustive summary:
Cecilita Fuentes (of Spain), the daughter of some aristocratic humanist who died before the story begins is a confused hoe who is about to marry that asshole guy Lionel who's rich and handsome. Only then her old flame Isaac crashes the wedding, demands that she marry him instead, and when she bitches at him that she would never marry him because of class struggles he just grabs her arm and walks her out and on board a ship that takes her to Argentine, the country where he inexplicably spent the last years training to be a high mafia personality. We only find out later that he came to Spain because his old darling/nemesis who betrayed him 3 years before by bitching at him about class struggles because he found out about her marriage plans. I'm not sure how exactly Isaac found out about it because Argentine in the 1930s didn't have facebook but I guess the daily newspaper warned about the event in faraway Spain weeks ahead of time so that he could plan his revenge. I dunno. The plotholes in this one are massive and best ignored.
The first thing Cecilita does on the ship is uphold her bitchy story about class struggles, and then demands to be brought back to Spain, only to then demand that he should only avenge himself on her and no one else. I don't really get that part because clearly he's only takin her to Argentine and didn't shoot her racist pig of a brother while he waved a gun in his face back in the wedding church. Moving on, Isaac convinces Cecilita (kind of) to have sex with him, which leads to her screaming no and getting wet a lot. This part was pretty awkward to read and I blame it on Japanese hentai where the women always scream nooooo at the top of their lungs. They are the harbingers of No Is The New Yes.
From then on, the story doesn't actually move forward for 150 pages, because Isaac keeps insulting Cecilita and Cecilita keeps blaming everything on class struggles and demands to be taken home to Spain in order to marry Lionel, who for some reason would surely take her back, I suppose?
But we do get the sorry backstory of the two, with all the unimaginative details. Basically Cecilita got hit by a car while playing outside without any nurse to see to her and suffered amnesia. Isaac, whose mother and sister had died shortly befpre, picked her up from the streets and took care of her until Cecilita's father found her and practically fell over himself to thank Isaac for his heroic actions. He then offers the gypsy boy not only employment but also a spot in school and expects his infantile daughter to marry him when she grows up. Because fuck logic and class struggles.
This makes Cecilita's brother jealous and angry and he contrieves to have the pesky gypsy boy sent to war. A plan that Cecilita brilliantly and heroically counters by ... insulting Isaac and claiming no interest in purusing their relationship further. Many tears later Isaac somehow ended up in Argentine with the mafia. Don't ask me how, not even the author knows.
Anyway, fast forward to the present, where the boat has nearly reached Argentine and Cecilita once again started her old argument. It's getting her nowhere so she resolves to flee. In the port she throws her luggage into the water, screams for help and runs off to the police station where the officer magically produces an article about her death, which shocks her so much that she resolves to suffer Isaacs dramatic revenge after all even before Isaac pops up into the office and gets her back.
After that comes the only memorable scene in the book, in which Isaac exclaims to Cecilita:
"But why would you flee from me? Didn't you know the police here is corrupt? They could have sold you to the next whorehouse!"
Cecilita, recalcitrantly ignoring one of his questions just quips "Well better a whore than with you!"
Damn girl. That's savage. Unfortunately for the reader, Cecilita immediately floods the chapter with a regretfull monologue and the resolve to do "anything" to make Isaac "happy", which apparently involves becoming a whore.
Isaac, being the spineless maggot he is, doesn't go through with shit. Even though Cecilita is already poised and ready to whore herself out like nobody's business, he rushes to the dancefloor in regret and punishes her by having sex with her. I guess. Anyway, they have words. Lots of words. And many monolgues.
Isaac claiming her has made Cecilita upset because she would have preferred whoring herself out to this weird status quo (and honestly better a whore than with Isaac just sayin') and skips three meals, which makes her collapse, mortally ill. She spends the next two months (!!!!) in delirium, retelling her whole life story once again and regurgigating everything that happened in the book and telling Isaac how much she loves him. To make everything worse, Isaac then gets a chapter from HIS POV in which he rehashes everything Cecilita gargled in her delirium and adds thoughtful monologue to Each. Piece. Of. Dialogue. I'm not lying. He rehashes everything she said, then regrets everythig he ever did in the book and promises to god and everyone too stupid too run away that he would do better.
As Cecilita finally recovers, he promptly breaks that promise by telling Cecilita nada about his newest resolve, proving him once again the most spineless character in the book. They dance tango, when suddenly a wild enemy appears (mind you, this is page 270 of 300 of the book). The wild enemy is some vague mafia person who is never mentioned before or after.
Cecilita and Isaac ditch the evil guy, dance tango somewhere, and Cecilita decides out of nowhere that she doesn't have to go back to Granada (even though she spent 80% of her dialogue wanting to go back) after all.
Then the book fasts forward several months without telling us anything about the random bad guy, and Isaac suddenly throws a wild wedding dress at Cecilita's feet (nope this isn't a metaphore) and demands she get changed. When she says no he informs her that they are getting randomly married. When she's doubtful and hesitant, Isaac finally remembers his resolve to be nicer to her (which sure didn't bother him in the months between her recovery and then).
Isaac holds a redemptive speech, claiming that he was wrong and should be forgiven. Before he does that, however, Cecilita refuses going back to Spain because she'd prefer being a Mafia mistress. All of sudden.
It went like this:
I: I did a shit move but I want you to forgive me.
C: Umm nope no way. I can't forgive you. Well ok maybe I can. I guess I can. Ok rite. I forgive you. Let's have sex&get married&have lots of children.
The whole thing - Isaac demandin marriage, her wanting to be his mistress, him wanting forgiveness, her forgiving him, them getting married and having happy end sex - took 7 pages. 7 pages! well, it's longer than it took the plot to.diappear after the bad guy finished his brief appearance within the paragraph.
The end.
Like there was literally NO conflict. It was all about Isaac thinking that Cecilita is a bitch and her thinking him a rude bastard and both being right until they decide they were wrong after all and start beig happy? and what about the evil mafia guy on page 270? I just don't get it. Apart from Isaac and Cecilita, only her husband to be, her brother and Isaacs right hand man José appeared. No one else ever showed, and only the father was mentioned. So that begs the question: who is this guy? what does he want? what motivates him? And what is this book actually about?
If you can't feel my pain yet imagine looking up words like "dripping female wetness" and trying to memorize how that kanji looks, while at the same time thinking that only a terrible writer would use that kanji in the first place and you will never see it or use it again. At least the author was too braindead to offer more than one synonym for each anatomical part of the heroic characters in this tale of woe. It spared me some pain.
Now that you have been warned, here is an exhaustive summary:
Cecilita Fuentes (of Spain), the daughter of some aristocratic humanist who died before the story begins is a confused hoe who is about to marry that asshole guy Lionel who's rich and handsome. Only then her old flame Isaac crashes the wedding, demands that she marry him instead, and when she bitches at him that she would never marry him because of class struggles he just grabs her arm and walks her out and on board a ship that takes her to Argentine, the country where he inexplicably spent the last years training to be a high mafia personality. We only find out later that he came to Spain because his old darling/nemesis who betrayed him 3 years before by bitching at him about class struggles because he found out about her marriage plans. I'm not sure how exactly Isaac found out about it because Argentine in the 1930s didn't have facebook but I guess the daily newspaper warned about the event in faraway Spain weeks ahead of time so that he could plan his revenge. I dunno. The plotholes in this one are massive and best ignored.
The first thing Cecilita does on the ship is uphold her bitchy story about class struggles, and then demands to be brought back to Spain, only to then demand that he should only avenge himself on her and no one else. I don't really get that part because clearly he's only takin her to Argentine and didn't shoot her racist pig of a brother while he waved a gun in his face back in the wedding church. Moving on, Isaac convinces Cecilita (kind of) to have sex with him, which leads to her screaming no and getting wet a lot. This part was pretty awkward to read and I blame it on Japanese hentai where the women always scream nooooo at the top of their lungs. They are the harbingers of No Is The New Yes.
From then on, the story doesn't actually move forward for 150 pages, because Isaac keeps insulting Cecilita and Cecilita keeps blaming everything on class struggles and demands to be taken home to Spain in order to marry Lionel, who for some reason would surely take her back, I suppose?
But we do get the sorry backstory of the two, with all the unimaginative details. Basically Cecilita got hit by a car while playing outside without any nurse to see to her and suffered amnesia. Isaac, whose mother and sister had died shortly befpre, picked her up from the streets and took care of her until Cecilita's father found her and practically fell over himself to thank Isaac for his heroic actions. He then offers the gypsy boy not only employment but also a spot in school and expects his infantile daughter to marry him when she grows up. Because fuck logic and class struggles.
This makes Cecilita's brother jealous and angry and he contrieves to have the pesky gypsy boy sent to war. A plan that Cecilita brilliantly and heroically counters by ... insulting Isaac and claiming no interest in purusing their relationship further. Many tears later Isaac somehow ended up in Argentine with the mafia. Don't ask me how, not even the author knows.
Anyway, fast forward to the present, where the boat has nearly reached Argentine and Cecilita once again started her old argument. It's getting her nowhere so she resolves to flee. In the port she throws her luggage into the water, screams for help and runs off to the police station where the officer magically produces an article about her death, which shocks her so much that she resolves to suffer Isaacs dramatic revenge after all even before Isaac pops up into the office and gets her back.
After that comes the only memorable scene in the book, in which Isaac exclaims to Cecilita:
"But why would you flee from me? Didn't you know the police here is corrupt? They could have sold you to the next whorehouse!"
Cecilita, recalcitrantly ignoring one of his questions just quips "Well better a whore than with you!"
Damn girl. That's savage. Unfortunately for the reader, Cecilita immediately floods the chapter with a regretfull monologue and the resolve to do "anything" to make Isaac "happy", which apparently involves becoming a whore.
Isaac, being the spineless maggot he is, doesn't go through with shit. Even though Cecilita is already poised and ready to whore herself out like nobody's business, he rushes to the dancefloor in regret and punishes her by having sex with her. I guess. Anyway, they have words. Lots of words. And many monolgues.
Isaac claiming her has made Cecilita upset because she would have preferred whoring herself out to this weird status quo (and honestly better a whore than with Isaac just sayin') and skips three meals, which makes her collapse, mortally ill. She spends the next two months (!!!!) in delirium, retelling her whole life story once again and regurgigating everything that happened in the book and telling Isaac how much she loves him. To make everything worse, Isaac then gets a chapter from HIS POV in which he rehashes everything Cecilita gargled in her delirium and adds thoughtful monologue to Each. Piece. Of. Dialogue. I'm not lying. He rehashes everything she said, then regrets everythig he ever did in the book and promises to god and everyone too stupid too run away that he would do better.
As Cecilita finally recovers, he promptly breaks that promise by telling Cecilita nada about his newest resolve, proving him once again the most spineless character in the book. They dance tango, when suddenly a wild enemy appears (mind you, this is page 270 of 300 of the book). The wild enemy is some vague mafia person who is never mentioned before or after.
Cecilita and Isaac ditch the evil guy, dance tango somewhere, and Cecilita decides out of nowhere that she doesn't have to go back to Granada (even though she spent 80% of her dialogue wanting to go back) after all.
Then the book fasts forward several months without telling us anything about the random bad guy, and Isaac suddenly throws a wild wedding dress at Cecilita's feet (nope this isn't a metaphore) and demands she get changed. When she says no he informs her that they are getting randomly married. When she's doubtful and hesitant, Isaac finally remembers his resolve to be nicer to her (which sure didn't bother him in the months between her recovery and then).
Isaac holds a redemptive speech, claiming that he was wrong and should be forgiven. Before he does that, however, Cecilita refuses going back to Spain because she'd prefer being a Mafia mistress. All of sudden.
It went like this:
I: I did a shit move but I want you to forgive me.
C: Umm nope no way. I can't forgive you. Well ok maybe I can. I guess I can. Ok rite. I forgive you. Let's have sex&get married&have lots of children.
The whole thing - Isaac demandin marriage, her wanting to be his mistress, him wanting forgiveness, her forgiving him, them getting married and having happy end sex - took 7 pages. 7 pages! well, it's longer than it took the plot to.diappear after the bad guy finished his brief appearance within the paragraph.
The end.
Like there was literally NO conflict. It was all about Isaac thinking that Cecilita is a bitch and her thinking him a rude bastard and both being right until they decide they were wrong after all and start beig happy? and what about the evil mafia guy on page 270? I just don't get it. Apart from Isaac and Cecilita, only her husband to be, her brother and Isaacs right hand man José appeared. No one else ever showed, and only the father was mentioned. So that begs the question: who is this guy? what does he want? what motivates him? And what is this book actually about?
If you can't feel my pain yet imagine looking up words like "dripping female wetness" and trying to memorize how that kanji looks, while at the same time thinking that only a terrible writer would use that kanji in the first place and you will never see it or use it again. At least the author was too braindead to offer more than one synonym for each anatomical part of the heroic characters in this tale of woe. It spared me some pain.
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