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Yaoi Press -DARK PRINCE 1 & 2

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DARK PRINCE vol.1

Yamila Abraham & M.A. Sambre

Yaoi Press

156pp$12.95 

Prince Davon murders boys whose name start with the letter ‘A’. The loyal retainer Lowry is summoned by the king to put a stop to it. Lowry assumes the prince is insane due to inbreeding. As he investigates he learns of Davon’s dark religion, and of the god Davon claims is his lover. Is this dark god who commands Davon to kill even real? Lowry seeks answers from Davon’s brother Lor, but he can scarcely rely on him when he’s also claiming to be Davon’s lover. 

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DARK PRINCE vol.2

Abraham & Sambre

Yaoi Press

156pp

$12.95  Prince Davon flees to the kingdom of

Ralstorm after his jealous brother Lor tries to kidnap Aeon, Davon’s new love. Ralstorm proves to be even more macabre than Davon’s home kingdom, with a king who’s obsessed with Davon, and a mad scientist determined to cure Davon’s impotence using electricity. Nice use of black and tones. I have to admit that there was a problem at first because the style is such that the male and female characters looked the same!  Luckily,once you start reading you don’t need to check who is what! 

The story flows well and I have to admit to being quite surprised.  When I mentioned Yaoi Press people kept saying “Oh! That’s Manga porn!”  Uh,well,maybe a bit of sex is involved but nothing really graphic.  Maybe it’s because I,uh,did some work for Eros Comix but this was all very tame to me [and if you’ve seen Eros titles you might know what I mean].  Enjoyable though there is “Mature Content –NOT for Children” warning which I guess is justifiable.  But buy the books and read them because whatever anyone says there is an interesting story here. Probably a book for the Manga fans,though?

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