Only the Ring Finger Knows Volume 2: The Left Hand Dreams of Him (Yaoi Novel)

I really love this series!!! Better than the 1st volume!!! Not too many illustrations - but it keeps you visualizing

One of my ultimate favorite yaoi novel. It is beautifully written. it takes such great depth into the characters. The story line is phenomenal. I highly recommend this story.

I love these books. I really like the normalness of this novel I guess. It's not some fantastical story with demons have sex with pretty boys. It's an as true to life story as you'll get. I can;t say anything on the poor translation quality. My mind overcompensates and fixes most typos and syntax erors automatically. Ona few occasions I had to stop but if you're like me you shouldn't have any trouble.

i love this book you should totally buy it trust me you won't regret it.i would like to tell you more but i don't want to spoil it for you

First of all, I'm very disappointed with DMP's editing of the context... So many missing quotation marks... and some lines that are supposed to be /thoughts/ aren't even italicized or anything. Some of the translation was a bit rough and awkward in diction as well... but, that part I can excuse since they try to translate as literal as possible. Please keep in mind that English and Japanese writing styles differ, and it is impossible to translate so that it fits the English reading mind 100%. I do wish they keep honorifics though... One mistake they're still repeating is the placement of the illustrations... sometimes they appear few pages before the scene actually happens, and sometimes after it happens. At the very least, I was hoping the layout be correct, but apparently not. As for the actual story itself, despite all those technical errors, I just totally love the couple even more now! Kazuki and Wataru in here is so... precious Kannagi-sensei's writing is romantic, deep, and insightful. The relationship between K and W is just so down-to-earth, and their worries and struggles are really realistic. (It is clearly an example that plot-movement is more important than loads of fanservice) In the second chapter, for once we see Kazuki being troubled, and it's Wataru who reassures him - since it has always been the other way around. As LKK stated, we begin to see flaws in Kazuki's character, so now their relationship feels even more reciprocal. Not only that, but the new characters Asaka and Shohei feel very necessary to the plot even if they are side casts. And as always, I love Odagiri-sensei's illustrations to death. If you're looking for smut-type of plot, or even action filled drama, you definitely won't find here. Rather, the events that happen in the novel are really normal and typical, but it's how they effect Kazuki and Wataru that are the highlights - it's the ever fluctuating and strengthening of their relationship that really matters.

...DMP needs to proofread their novel translations! Geez. I can't tell you, since I actually lost count, how many easily identifiable mistakes were in this printed novel. I actually think this one had more than the first novel for this series. It wasn't that there were mispelled words, no. I'm sure DMP ran MS Word Spellcheck on it at some point, but that seems to be where they ended. There were words that were obviously meant to be other words and numerous mistakes that I could believe someone who did not read and write English as a first language would make grammatically. I would hope that a major publisher of yaoi manga in America would hire someone to do the job of an editor and fix these kinds of things, though. The translation was a little awkward, but I'm not about to blame the fact that English and Japanese are such different languages on the publisher. I can however complain that the writing style in the translation lacked cohesiveness. Sometimes thoughts were in quotations, but often they were not, and as the reader I had to spend more time trying to figure out who was saying what, or if they were saying it at all. It also seemed that in a number of the instances where thoughts were not quoted, that they originally had been, because the first letter in those thoughts was still capitalized. There were also a lot of punctuation mistakes. Some of them were unfinished sentences, and a few seemed to be the result of a paragraph or sentence being broken in the middle, but the punctuation to correct this not being added. Also, related to this is the seemingly out of place illustrations in this volume. In the first volume the illustrations popped on the pages at just the right moments for the events they depicted, but in volume two they are often either several pages too early or too late. Odagiri does the illustrations again, and again they are beautiful. The color illustrations at the beginning of the book are even wonderful enough to make me want to have them as a poster on my wall. Anyway, aside from my nitpicking it really isn't a bad read. My heart has a little place carved out for Yuichi and Wataru's love for each other (one of the more beautifully written in the genre), and I always enjoy reading their adventures. The story really is beautiful. It is not that anything is overwhelmingly surprising or exciting, but I would have to settle on "inspiring." This lovely couple makes you want to believe that everything, despite obstacles, fighting and misunderstandings, is going to turn out just fine. The Left Hand Dreams of Him is a true sequel to the first novel, so if you aren't familiar with the first book, you might want to read that before giving this one a try. This one was written after the manga version, so that little extra side story that Odagiri wrote for the end of the manga makes some cameo appearances in this volume (a couple parts towards the end of the book were laugh out loud funny). Volume two