Dirty Filthy Rich Love

I love manga that takes something absurd, dials it up a few notches, and manages to successfully apply it across many different scenarios. Gags that don't feel overused, in other words. This manga was a perfect example of what I like and how I like it.

Way of the Househusband follows former Yakuza boss Tatsu (the “Immortal Dragon”) as he lives his best life keeping house for his successful career wife. He shops for deals, babysits for neighbors, makes adorable lunches, and treats his wife to small gifts, all while not being very successful at all at escaping his former persona. Turns out it's pretty hard to act like anything other than a Yakuza boss when that's all you knew.

Throughout this manga we're treated to little vignettes into Tatsu's life-after-gangs. A knife salesman comes knocking, and Tatsu makes him lunch all while silently intimidating the heck out of the salesman. He sets up a Roomba(-like robot), treats it like a gang member in training, and then creates a misunderstanding with neighbors after their cat causes a robot mishap. He offers to babysit for neighbors, tries to keep the kid occupied with gambling games, fails miserably, and when the kid breaks his wife's favorite anime figurine buries it six feet under. It's little scenes like that throughout the manga that really sells this.

I'm so pleased with this series, I look forward to picking up volume two!

Holy Hell! What can I say about Donovan Kincaid? He's arrogant. He's controlling. He's obsessive, overbearing and frustrating. And I love him!! While some might say manipulating the life of the one you want so that the game ends the way you want it to, isn't love. But for Donovan, that's exactly what it is. And he pulls it off exceptionally well.

I loved this couple. He loves her the only way he knows how. She loves him despite all of this.The heat created between these two is incinerating! I was thankful I was reading on my Kindle because I believe the paperback would have been too hot to hold!

Donovan Kincaid has it all. Except her. He's loved her from afar for so long. He's done everything he can to protect her, give her everything she needs, all without her knowing. He's kept anyone who might do her harm far away from her. Including himself. He's back and he's done running from her.

Sabrina Lind knows his secret now. He loves her. She's determined to solve the puzzle that is Donovan Kincaid and figure out why he's done the things he's done, both to her and for her. More than that, she needs to know if the love she feels for him, and that he feels for her is real. It's twisted and raw and complicated. It's not like any love she's ever known. It's unique to them, and them alone. But is it too much?

Can he learn to fully give his heart? Can they find a middle ground? Will a ghost from her past destroy them forever?
I really do hope there is a book three for this series.