Cold Sleep (Yaoi Novel)

I'm not sure if something was lost in the translation here (I'm sure that could be) but despite an intriguing premise this story fell a little flat for me. The basis of the story is a tried and true one about someone who loses their memory in an accident only to be taken in by a stranger who seems

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to have other reasons than the obvious. The couple interesting differences is that the man losing his memory, Tohru, does discover that maybe he is better off NOT regaining his memory as he just might appreciate having a clean slate. The other thing is that the person who winds up careing for Tohru and becomes the object of his affection, Fujishima, is an older man (this is a June yaoi story after all.)

I did like the characters well enough but felt as though the story finished without really explaining what, I felt, was really the most important part of the story; the mystery of why Fujishima took Tohru in and was interested in him in the first place.

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