

File Size: 226 KB
Print Length: 27 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Yaoi Press (May 24, 2011)
Publication Date: May 24, 2011
Sold by: Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B0052N2ZVC
Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Lending: Not Enabled
Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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I really, really liked "Belovéd 4490'"---and I have to be honest, here: I wasn't expecting to. I tend to be very picky about the kind of yaoi I like (though I will usually read any yaoi that's given to me just because there just isn't enough of it in the world generally speaking), and I've found I don't really take to non-sequential stories very often.The problem, I think, is that each story has to be able to stand on its own and give information that the other stories have not. Which means that each story has to have some basic information that's in every story, but also give the reader new thrills so they don't think they've just read the same story twice when it's supposed to be two separate ones. Belovéd is non-sequential, meaning it isn't written in chronological order and even the chronology skips hundreds of years at a time. When I started "Belovéd 4490"', I didn't know what the numbers in the title meant, but I quickly learned that they represent the story's year and are therefore important to the title. (There's also "Belovéd 5860" and "Belovéd 3956", and I suspect there will eventually be more chapters set in other years as well.)The obvious reason why the stories are set so far apart in time is because Malachi, the warlord, sleeps for 200 years at a time. During his slumber, the world he dominates is at peace. When he wakes up, he fights seven avatars of the planet in war games; if he wins, he rules the planet until he sleeps again. If he loses, he becomes a slave. He always won, so the war gods that oversee the games gave him "a sexual appetite and the capacity to fall in love". He becomes fascinated with Jace, the avatar from the world's most prominent country.
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