Boys Be… 15
Posted: April 21, 2008 Filed under: Boys Be... Leave a comment »Okay, so I’m nearly square with this series, I’ve just got the newest volume to read, which I only got last week. After that one, there’ll be only four volume left, then I’ll never have to read another volume of Boys Be again.
I was disappointed once again with the stories in this volume. The first story got things off on the wrong foot right away since it was yet another story about a couple that hadn’t had their first kiss. The gimmick this time was that the girl didn’t want to kiss the boy because his lips were chapped and there was a whole comedy thing about him applying her chapstick and it being an indirect kiss… et cetera.
There was a two-part story which I thought I kinda liked about a boy having a crush on a teacher-in-training and it being a kind of destiny thing since he’d met her a long time ago too. This story was pretty sweet, but you could sort of tell where it was going to go since there was a secondary female character hanging around right from the beginning that didn’t really have a place. I did really like the teacher character, who played it pretty cool around the boy and girl in the story. You never did find out what she was thinking, so it’s left up to the reader whether she had feelings for the boy or not. Once again though, no action, no kissing, no hand holding, nothing. We get the beginnings of something, but things just don’t go all the way.
The only other story I liked was one about a boy who shyly tried out pressure points on his tomboyish video game obsessed girlfriend. Things kept getting more and more crazy as he kept hitting pressure points at her request that did different things. yeah.
No Boys Be Justice stories this time around. Can’t say I missed them.
