(Digital Bundle) Our Funny Love Story, Resistance Book 1 (eBook)
Own your digital copy of Byrd Koto's debut novel, a BL romantic literary mystery with heated banter and hidden layers! The digital version includes six original illustrations from cover artist xiehuajun.
The bookshop-only digital bundle includes the eBook (delivered via BookFunnel) and three character art digital wallpapers, for the same price as retail platforms!
Story:
A Tokyo BL Publishing Mystery: Book 1 is now available, Book 2 to follow on December 30th.
What would you say if no one were watching? Something funny, so the night becomes less lonely?
A comedy of errors, until fate reveals its twisted sense of humor.
Kamada Eizo, a web novelist fresh from college, lands his dream—a flagship fantasy serial with an ambitious publisher. His breezy charm is a front, concealing desperation to claim a life that could be taken from him.
Miyamoto Ran detests liars. Grim and uncompromising, the editor stakes his future on one goal: unearthing the lost work of an author who vanished eight years ago. Securing Eizo’s success is his only path to that prize.
Polar opposites—and fueled by a misdelivered package—they clash at every turn, trading barbed banter and tit-for-tat one-upmanship until a high-stakes deadline forces an uneasy truce. Yet, as they draw closer, Ran begins to see through Eizo’s mask, sensing that the fragile connection they share is built entirely on artifice. But for two men who have had the story of their lives once stolen, how far will one go to win it back, even if it means silencing the other's voice?
OUR FUNNY LOVE STORY is an Achillean publishing mystery perfect for fans of danmei, BL novels, and introspective fiction with queer yearning so oblique it puts a tsundere to shame.
Please note this is Book 1 of a duet that ends in a happily-ever-after and contains no spice.
Both digital and print formats come with artwork and scene illustrations for an immersive reading experience.
Praise for Our Funny Love Story:
Fantastic book. If you enjoy indie novels, danmei, misunderstandings, and enemies to lovers, this book is for you!
The writing is lucid, and the imagery and semiotics are striking...It's so beautifully layered.
This story is full of secrets and hidden meaning; it's like peeling back the layers of an onion without knowing the end, which adds complexity and humanity to the characters as we try to unravel the mystery of half-truths and lies.
As Eizo is a writer and Ran is an editor, there were snippets of the stories Eizo has written, and Ran has edited, interspersed throughout the book, and I was HOOKED on dissecting the hidden meaning behind each snippet.
Has enemies to lovers written all over this book while the slow-burn romance builds so naturally and hits all these deep notes on identity and loss.
Check out more reviews on Goodreads here.
The exclusive Digital Bundle comes with:
- eBook of Our Funny Love Story (delivered through BookFunnel)
- Three high-res digital wallpapers of Ran and Eizo (Dreamy Night, Enemies, Kabedon!)
- Product note on how to download your eBook
