Manga Review: Secretly, I've Been Suffering About Being Sexless by Togame

Rating (Out of 5): ~3

Publisher: Yen Press

Release Date: July 2019

Volumes: 1.

Spoilers?: Light.

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Goodreads Synopsis:

True confessions from a sexless marriage...
Togame and her husband are happy in love and want to have kids. There's just one problem: Their bedroom has turned into a no-bang zone! With her raging libido frustrated by her beloved husband's practically nonexistent sex drive, Togame is climbing the walls in search of release...Left to her own devices to get her fix, will fulfilling her needs spell doom for Togame's marriage?!

Review:

This is about Togame and her sexual issues with her new husband. She wants sex relatively often, and has been trying to get his attention, and yet he seems completely uninterested. He doesn't know why, either.

I had really high hopes for this volume. It's an issue that we don't see very much, and I was curious how it would be handled here. Plus, the art work is really cute. Her husband is drawn in a particularly cute way, too, making him look like a sweetheart.

All of this is leading to the fact that I was disappointed. Togame is surprisingly vocal about her issues, and brings it up to her husband so they can deal with it. He doesn't seem to have put any thought into her issue, though, and doesn't really put any effort into trying more or figuring out what the real problem is. He's perfectly fine with smiling and shrugging it off.

All of the pressure with sex is put onto Togame. She tries a couple of different things to get his attention. And then at one point they decide that she hasn't been putting enough effort into her looks, so she tries to dress nicer and lose weight. A good enough amount of time is put on this option as the problem that it kind of ruined it for me. I really didn't want this to be a focus at any point, honestly, and was disappointed when he was like, “yeah, maybe you're just not making yourself look hot enough for me?” Again, seemingly without much thought for the idea, either.

This doesn't end up being the real problem, and it's kind of fixed weirdly easily in the end, but still. I was hoping for something more, I guess.

DNF Review: Tether Me Not by David Dachauer

Rating (Out of 5): ~2

Genre: Spiritual, Somewhat-Autobiographical, Contemporary, Adult

Publisher: Brown Book Publishing

Publish Date: 2011

Spoilers?: Not really.

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Goodreads Synopsis:

A widower, anxious to find a way to deal with his grief over the untimely death of his wife, turned journal entries into a compelling work of fiction that tests the bounds of love and asks the question: is there life after death.

DNF Review:

I tried to read this book. Apparently not very hard, but I did try. It sounded interesting, a lot of people apparently like it, I thought I would give it a try. However, I didn’t make it very far before deciding that I wasn’t going to finish it.

This book is very spiritual. There’s a lot of God influence in it, and some Indian, ghostly stuff. I didn’t think it would be such a big part. When I started it, the romance sounded nice. And, still, the romance maybe is good, and I do think that the way the author felt about his wife is very sweet and heartwarming. But there is a lot of God stuff, and I just can’t handle any more of that.

I wanted to read more, give it more of a try, but I just couldn’t do it. I knew that, were I to keep reading, I was just going to get frustrated and annoyed and angry at all the pushy God stuff, so I decided to stop. I’ve only ever DNF’ed a very small handful of books, so that says something. Not that this is a bad book (because, as I said, a lot of people liked it), but that this book isn’t for me.

Because it’s not. Sorry, but I couldn’t finish it. Thank you, though, for sending it to me.

A review copy was provided by Goodreads First Reads Giveaways. Thank you!