Genre:
Historical Romance
Themes:
Against All Odds
Coming of Age
Erotic
Girl Next Door
Grumpy / Sunshine
Historical
Self-Discovery
Sex Toys
Toaster Oven / Gay For You
Heat Level:
Hot & Steamy (full, graphic description of sexual acts occurs and may include crude language)
Archetypes:
Actor / Performer
Student
Geographic Location:
Asia / Pacific Islands
Setting:
Big City / Urban
Suburban
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Femme
Androgynous
Tomboy
Questioning
Protagonist Identity:
Asian
First Love
The Serial of Love Series, Book 2
By Hildred Billings
It's always the one you least suspect
The REN’AI RENSAI (Serial of Love) series is an ongoing look into one lesbian relationship over the span of decades, told in non-chronological order in novel, novella, novelette and short story formats.
If society has taught Aiko anything, it’s that one day she will marry a man. Not until she meets Reina, a lesbian with a knack for flirting, does she decide she wants to experience a different kind of sexual liberation – assuming she can overcome her insecurities and nosy family. As she succumbs more and more to Reina’s charms, however, Aiko wonders if she can really abandon everyone’s expectations.
Reina has met plenty of girls like Aiko before: cute, naive, and ready to screw the status quo. After being burned by countless young women who go on to marry men and forget their lesbian lives, how can Reina trust yet another “good girl” following her around? Especially when she thinks she may be having those foreign feelings for her best friend instead.
Time will only tell if Hatsukoi, or “first love,” has really come to two such different people. Is their relationship genuine or just another footnote amongst flirting, lying, and sneaking around love hotels?