A RELUCTANT ATTRACTION

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  Posted by Readers in Japan

  Jan 05, 2010 (PST) | Translate to English
  力ずく要素は低め
  The brute force element is low
  連絡が途絶えた恋人グレッグの誕生日パーティに押しかけたリンデンは門前払いをくらうが、そこに声をかけてきたスティーヴンという男性の同伴者として入ることに成功する。しかし、そこで恋人の婚約発表が行われ、リンデンは捨てられたとショックを受ける。一方、スティーヴンはグレッグの婚約相手のいとこであり、「リンデンがお金目当ての女で２人の仲を壊そうと考えている」と思い込んでおり、リンデンに冷たくあたる。リンデンがまだ観光でしばらくとどまるつもりだと聞き、いとこに幸せになってもらいたいと願うスティーヴンは、２人に手出しができないように、ツアーと見せかけて自分の島へリンデンを連れていってしまう。「２人が結婚するまで、僕と一緒にここにいてもらう。逃げようとしてもムダだ」と。いろいろな人物が登場し物語が進むうちに、リンデンはだんだんとスティーヴンに惹かれていくが、スティーヴンはリンデンを誤解した態度のままで…。というようなストーリーです。作品説明ではスティーヴンは危険な香りの男で軟禁したとあったので、力強くて少し乱暴な俺様タイプを想像したのですが、男らしさと強引さはありますが山の少年のような素朴さと優しさがあるキャラのように感じました。気になったところは、２人の心の動き（特に、スティーヴンがリンデンに惹かれる過程？）が少しわかりづらかったり、ところどころ？な設定やセリフがあったように思いました。

  Linden, who rushed to her lover Greg's birthday party with whom she had lost contact, gets paid at the gate, but succeeds in entering as a companion for a man named Steven who called out to it. However, her lover's engagement was announced there, and Linden is shocked that she was abandoned. Meanwhile, Steven is Greg's fiancée's cousin, and he thinks “Linden is a woman looking for money and is thinking of breaking the relationship between the two,” and he treats Linden coldly. Hearing that Linden is still planning to stay for a while due to sightseeing, Steven wants his cousin to be happy, so he takes Linden to his own island under the guise of a tour so they can't touch them. “They're going to stay here with me until they get married. It's no use trying to escape.” As various characters appear and the story progresses, Linden gradually becomes attracted to Steven, but Steven still misunderstood Linden... It's a story like that. In the description of the work, it was said that Steven was a man with a dangerous scent and was under house arrest, so I imagined my strong and slightly violent type, but I felt like a character with masculinity and aggressiveness but with simplicity and kindness like a mountain boy. What bothered me was the movement of their hearts (in particular, the process by which Steven is attracted to Linden?) It's a little hard to understand, or somewhere? I thought there were settings and lines.

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