Look. I'm not a very big fan of 'hear me out,' because I stand by my taste and I refuse to be embarrassed by it. That means I am dedicated to never starting out a review with 'hear me out,' even when the subject is... (flips through the book)

feral dub-con sex to arranged marriage double-dicked sharkman yaoi with the setting of ethnically unlikely fantasy island savages and like, some stuff with a guy being a 'bride' as a sort of gender/sexual role but don't worry, it's fully-formed, huge invisi-dicks the whole time, the only odd anatomy is reserved for the sharkman

This is not beginner friendly BL, but I'd say it's... about what you can expect from something so primarily sex-driven. A guy gets married to a shark shape shifter. This is smut with very specific kinks in mind, and the plot is basically in service of them. Honestly, as a dyed-in-the-wool fujin, I just thought they could've gotten even weirder with it (some of the sex is just with the shark guy in human form! BOO!), but I liked what I saw. What I saw was a bunch of muscular dudes doing it, and one of them turns into a shark form with a tail and two dicks.

If you are concerned about the representation of tribal life on a tropical island, given Japan's violent and oppressive history with such groups, well, there's no prize for 'not as blatantly offensive as it could've been, and basically kind of generic and didn't make me throw the book in the ocean.' I suspect it does better than Dickfight Island, but I confess that I have not yet set my eyes upon that notorious masterpiece. It's also (deadpan) so, so interesting how one of the couple's skin is so much lighter in the color illustration on the front.

All of that being said, it has a lot of things I really liked, which is to say, I like monster guys/mermen, and I thought the leads had a cute and genuine chemistry, and the plot did have something to do with finding the sort of manliness within you regardless of your role within the bedroom and society.

I want to see the twink friend get obliterated in the next one.