Aiden to Haru: A Stepbrothers BL Harem | 
bailedI keep striking out on the books I pick for the #AToZReadingChallenge2021 mini challenges. August's prompt was an indie author, so I hunted down an indie audiobook on Hoopla and found this one. The writing style was so clunky (see the first sentence)... And I know this genre often fetishizes gay relationships, but there's literally a character who tells gay characters what she wants their sex life to be like and I had to bail on this one at 30%.
Kenyazero I was also not loving that one character's chapters were in first person and the other character's chapters were in third person. One final note: This is a small thing, but it also killed me when one of the readers pronounced yaoi as "yeaow"... Look up how to pronounce unfamiliar words before you record!) 3y
Kenyazero I realized that another thing I hated about this book was that it enforces cultural covering demands. I don't think that's what the author was intending, though. This book follows brothers who grew up in Japan and thus have Japanese mannerisms while living in the US. The narration frequently mentions them forgetting to not do Japanese things like say "ittekimasu" when leaving the house, implying that their Japanese way of doing things is wrong. 3y
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