Solfege

A collection of BL stories by Fumi Yoshinaga.

I love Fumi Yoshinaga but these stories weren’t great. They’re overly dramatic and don’t get away from the classic yaoi relationships that are basically sexual assault.

The longest multi part story is about a music teacher who sleeps with his student. I will say that I am really sick of stories involving romantic relationships between teachers and students. I’m a teacher myself and I think it’s one of the most overused plots that personally infuriate me. The music teacher is the one to come onto the student so that’s awful. The student is characterized as being somewhat dimwitted which makes it worse. And the happy ending to the story seems to justify that everything that happened was OK. It’s terrible.

Also you don’t say a student isn’t understanding solfege when you’re playing a random note on the piano. You’re mixing sight-singing with notating a melody!

~dakazu