I started reading the story after I purposely jumped to the climax of the story, read it to the end And right after I finished it, I started again from the beginning this time.
The story is Anthology, the second story out of three stories that all take place in a university and related to each other by the characters.
So, Mark who is freshman in (wait for it...) engineering faculty, was in love with Bar, a senior from the same faculty. He confessed his love to him (quite bravely, I must say) but was cruelly rejected as this guy is in love with other guy (previous story). In his extreme sadness, he got drunk so much, that he confused some other guy for Bar, try to harass him to make Bar break up with said boyfriend. That's how we meet Vee, who is not Bar,but his best friend and what's so ever, doesn't look like him and more over, he got so mad at Mark for his drunk shenanigan and he decided to teach him a lesson.
That's the kick start of the story. Vee has an unfaithful girl friend, best and supportive friends awesome parents and a brother I would have trade with my own brother. Still, he is an unfaithful rapist himself without morals and integrity.
The stories goes by Vee treating Mark abhorrently. Really he treats him like trash- he does a lots of stuff with Mark, but continues to go out with his gf. He continues to love her, even after he, and the whole university know, that she is a cheater (they don't know about him though). He continues to be indecisive about who is he want to be with and Makes Mark waiting or him for on and on and on.
Argggggg...
Those who know me know that I'm a sucker of the movie Flipped. The author of Theory of Love used it smartly in her story and Faddist here doing it here too.
All of the sudden Vee finds out what a treasure he had in his hands, but by then, he is doing one of the stupidest moves that I saw in my career as romance reader and loses Mark.
Even though this review is a HUGE spoiler, I wont tell you what he did. Go read LOL.
My thoughts.
Well, I'm portraying my feelings for the story through the whole review and i'll focus in a few points that remain.
RAPE IS WRONG!
Rape isn't romantic, rape isn't a jump start for a relationship, even if it's LGBT one. But the Thai has a culture of using the "rape" theme very lightly. This story not unique in this.
I love a good groveling.
I confess, I do. In this story, in oppose to others, Vee acknowledged that he used force and try to atone it (sort of, but still). For that, Kudos to the author. He chased after Mark and Mark gives him run for his money. Very delightful.
Beside the first episodes, all the sexy scenes were very steamy that put a smile on my face- let's just say that Mark LOVES sex, especially with Vee. LOL
Both our guys get their happy ending. Mark isn't alone anymore and Vee learns to be a human being.
I gave it 4 out 5 because of some few things that I didn't like in the story. But I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the drama, the angst, the redemption, the cuteness and the narrative.
(Long ass review).