Good to Excellent Under-read NU BL
Good to Excellent Under-read NU BL
This is a list of BL I found to be really good reads with small NU readership (<4000 readers), and/or few reviews. They usually feature one or more of the following:
1. Strong plot
2. Good characters/characterization
3. Power couple.
Most (but not all) are HE as well. I generally read more historical, but there will be others as well. The list will be slowly updated over time. I will also try to add comments or reasons to why I like the novel, especially to titles I didn't leave a review for already.
Additionally, while this generally a rec list, that doesn't mean that I will have glowing things to say about every single one of them. I will still have criticisms and complaints about things I didn't like about each of these.
Note: This is NOT a list of all BLs that I consider to be excellent (there are many I consider to be good reads but are much more well-read i.e. >6,000 readers, even). An absolutely favorite list might be posted separately at another time.
1. Strong plot
2. Good characters/characterization
3. Power couple.
Most (but not all) are HE as well. I generally read more historical, but there will be others as well. The list will be slowly updated over time. I will also try to add comments or reasons to why I like the novel, especially to titles I didn't leave a review for already.
Additionally, while this generally a rec list, that doesn't mean that I will have glowing things to say about every single one of them. I will still have criticisms and complaints about things I didn't like about each of these.
Note: This is NOT a list of all BLs that I consider to be excellent (there are many I consider to be good reads but are much more well-read i.e. >6,000 readers, even). An absolutely favorite list might be posted separately at another time.
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Created: Jun 23rd, 2022, Updated: Aug 28th, 2024
Created Jun 23rd, 2022
Updated Aug 28th, 2024
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#5Jinyiwei
25 Chapters Every 65.8 Day(s) 765 Readers 2 Reviews 12-19-2022
Currently keeping up with the translations, and it's very entertaining, not a dull moment. Set during the Ming Dynasty featuring many actual historical figures. The... more>>
#6Yingnu
46 Chapters Every 101 Day(s) 1842 Readers 1 Reviews 12-27-2021
Although the story opens with Xu Lingyun and Li Xiao, the focus of the story is really on an earlier timeline in the past involving crown prince Li Qingcheng (MC) and his bodyguards, one of whom is the actual ML. The life of the early timeline is actually the baseline focus of the story, but it starts to become apparent who Xu Lingyun, Li Xiao, and other present-timeline characters really are, and how they are connected to the first timeline. It's a story in which elements of foreshadowing are there already, you might already have been able to guess in some ways that the first timeline wasn't happy, but as more and more of the... more>>
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6 Chapters Every 130 Day(s) 1118 Readers 4 Reviews 12-25-2023
Warning: NP and BE. Wrote a review for it.
0 Chapters Every 2065 Day(s) 3795 Readers 61 Reviews N/A
Depressed unreliable narrator, very evocative, and melancholic. You definitely get a sense for the political issues an Imperial Uncle has to deal with, and the... more>>
0 Chapters Every 1421 Day(s) 3842 Readers 44 Reviews 08-05-2021
Jun Wei Xia is the lesser read between the two of "The Wife is First", but I personally enjoyed this one more. Some issues in general with this author's writings though (which I have noticed from reading TWIF, Submissive Emperor, and halfway through Peach), is that many female characters aren't portrayed very positively in general, and there's some racial stereotyping in depictions of some non-Han ethnic groups.... more>>
193 Chapters Every 79.2 Day(s) 5300 Readers 101 Reviews 04-30-2022
This is a story much more focused on kingdom building and the political maneuvers of power, and less upon the romance of the main CP.... more>>
0 Chapters Every 105.5 Day(s) 4272 Readers 75 Reviews N/A
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19 Chapters Every 95.6 Day(s) 869 Readers 5 Reviews 06-28-2022
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- StrawverryTae· Feb 24, 2023 01:22 PM
omg i like reading ur reviews! they helped me put some new books in my libraryReply · 1 · 0- wetheril· Author · Feb 24, 2023 03:39 PMYou're welcome! I'm glad you've found this helpful. :) I forgot about updating this for more than a month, but I will try to post updates on it soon.Reply · 1 Like · 1 · 0
