Rose Prince completed Rose Prince AUTHOR: sendohime
LEAD: D.O.
GENRE; SETTING: romance; slice of life
CHAPTERS: 1
READER INFORMATION: None  

While roses have got to be the most cliché flower on the market, no one could resist a bouquet from a prince like him. But this prince has got it bad.

thoughts PLOT: Ah... it's kind of hard to say anything about this one without spoiling. But yeah, girl goes out flower shopping, boy-in-love goes out flower shopping, they attempt to buy the same last bouquet – except no, it is not that unbearably clichéd. Alas, I can say no more about this without providing a massive spoiler, so I won't. There is a romance tag, but the romance is more hinted at and budding, and very understated, which I really liked. And especially for something as short as a one shot that is set in the course of a few hours on one single day, I was very, very happy that it was done like that. Trying to build up a romance over the course of a one shot and make it look convincing in the same space is actually very difficult.

CHARACTERISATION: Characterisation is different in one shots compared to long stories, and I thought the author here captured the individuals' characters pretty well. Kyungsoo is an absolute fool in love, but very sweet, even if he might make you cringe just that teeny little bit a couple of times. The main character comes across as pretty normal – she's judgemental