Gorgeous Carat Hot

There are four [4] books in the first arc, Virtue of Darkness, and the story is continued in Gorgeous Carat: Galaxy published by Juné Manga, and while the smaller BLU publications are nice, the Juné Manga seems more luxurious. Great artwork, engaging story if you like action and it's set in Paris to begin with, in the early 1900s. Nothing graphic sex wise but an interesting relationship between Florian and Ray/Noir, the two main characters who are 20 and 18 years old respectively. The blurb on the back of v. 1 describes the story as a swashbuckling adventure and you just know Noir has led a hell of a life. It really surprised me that he didn't just pounce on Florian the way he obsesses about him! I would have liked some pouncing, I'm all for the pouncing! The author/artist You Higuri has made Florian the slightly more girly of the two appearance wise, Florian is a beautiful blonde, but he's tougher than he looks [just as well what with the abuse he has to put up with!], and you get the feeling that maybe Ray/Noir wants a partner rather than a servant/slave relationship with Florian, but isn't quite sure how to achieve that, probably because he has enormous trust and control issues :o) He wants to possess and protect Florian, one thing I can say for sure, if they were to move forward with their relationship, Ray/Noir would want Florian to be the uke, "One day I'll make those arrogant violet eyes succumb to me." However, Florian might have something to say about that. "Sorry, but I don't listen to orders from low class swine." Of course, as he's saying this Florian reminds me of one of Charlie's Angels about to flip his hair back with one hand, but hey, it works for me, pounce Ray pounce! *lol* Both men are my favourite characters in Gorgeous Carat and I'd love more books in the series, but have no idea if it'll go beyond the current 5 volumes.