Would You Act Your Age?

Book reviews

21 Jan

Written By Anzhelika Li

Do you feel weird for loving daddy kink?

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1. ACT YOUR AGE by Eve Dangerfield

SYNOPSIS

Just because Kate ‘Middleton’ McGrath, wants a man to call ‘daddy’ in bed doesn’t mean— Oh, you stopped reading. Cool.

Kate gets it. Kinks aren’t for everyone. Hell, they’re probably not for Mr.Henderson, her grumpaholic boss. She really shouldn’t have a crush on him, but the man is just so goddamn stern. Sure, a lot of that comes down to ‘being her boss,’ but still, it feels like there might be something there.

Tyler Henderson is a golden boy who’s lost his shine. He’s old, his dream career is over, his fiancée’s left him. Now all the former firefighter can do is try and bury his troubles in paperwork and hard liquor. He says ‘try’ because he can’t get Middleton out of his head long enough to wallow properly. He’s not going anywhere near the girl. HR issues aside, he’s done with sweetness and things don’t come sweeter than a cupcake-baking engineer who knits her own hats.

A case of mistaken identity causes Kate and Ty’s attraction to give way to blistering sex. They have more in common—and more to lose—than either of them realized. When it comes to an unreasonable attraction you can rarely change your mind but can you act your age?

BOOK REVIEW

Eve Dangerfield was bold and captivating with this one. She gave life to very unconventional characters, quite lovable despite their shared kink for some really weird at least to me stuff (daddy love and roleplay aren’t doing it for me just in general, honestly speaking). Besides, the author did an amazing job of developing both of the main leads. Both Tyler and Kate were multi-layered and incredibly deep, I could totally understand the reasons behind their cravings for things of that ‘nature’.

Ty wasn’t religious, but his desire to play daddy from such a young age made him wonder if reincarnation wasn’t real. It felt like he’d inherited another man’s tastes. As though some higher power had said ‘Daddy is the word, and the word is Daddy and Daddy is the only thing that will turn your crank. Also you have a sadistic streak, enjoy that. Amen.’

Tyler Henderson was an enormously broody man in his mid-40s, a dominant kind with a slightly sadistic side to him (his obsession with spanking was too much sometimes). ‘Every time he saw Kate’s face, with its upturned nose and lightly freckled cheeks, he wanted to do terrible fucking things to it. Up close he was powerless against thoughts of tearing her out of her high-necked, knee-length clothes and keeping her naked in his bed for a week. Transform her from a good girl into a writhing animal who lived to pleasure his dick.’ Definitely not my type of a guy (too kinky and smutty for my liking), although I did sympathize with his disastrous past (nothing overly dramatic but bad, nonetheless).

Sexually inexperienced as she might be, Kate was and always had been kinkier than a bag of zig-zags. It felt like she’d been born that way, craving things she didn’t understand way before she reached sexual maturity. The dad in Taken had a particular set of skills, she had a particular set of fantasies. Unlike her, they weren’t polite, they weren’t nice, and they didn’t leave when they were asked.

Kate ‘Middleton’ McGrath didn’t share my opinion. Obviously. She was basically lusting after Ty despite him being twice her age (plus being her boss) and dreaming about the mere fantasy of them being together intimately. According to Kate, her obsession with him wasn’t even original. Everyone had a crush on Tyler Henderson. ‘Women, gay men, straight men, more perceptive animals. It was like having a crush on a Hemsworth brother—it made you basic as hell.’

Needless to say, the chemistry was out of the roof but had some unique sort of an edge to it. Really, it’s hard to properly describe the things that are fascinating for a rather marginalized group of people (or maybe not that marginalized based on the info from the book, I honestly don’t know)…

Act Your Age was an interesting book that took me out of my personal comfort zone, no doubt. It was a quick and entertaining read, charged with ‘laugh out loud’ vibes and filled with oftentimes quite cringy dialogues, as well as extremely hot fuckery (no other way to name those sex scenes).

SPOILER! Kate had a bad case of ADHD.

NOTE! Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental disorder of the neurodevelopmental type. It is characterized by difficulty paying attention, excessive activity and acting without regard to consequences, which are otherwise not appropriate for a person’s age. Individuals with ADHD can also display problems with regulating emotions.

1.5. NOT YOUR SHOE SIZE by Eve Dangerfield

SYNOPSIS

Kate McGrath knows the daddy situation has changed. For one thing, her kink’s gone mainstream (what up, internet!) For another, her relationship with Ty, AKA Daddy, has growing pains. After years of protecting herself with faux-girliness, Kate finally feels like a woman. She wants Ty to treat her like a grown-up (bedroom excluded, obviously), but emancipation is the first fantasy her daddy doesn’t seem able to fulfill…

Tyler Henderson is happy with things the way they are. And if they have to change, why can’t Kate marry him? That would be nice. And make him look like less of a dirty old man. He’ll fight to keep Middleton where she is, but he isn’t counting on a daddy rival, a man from Kate’s past who would be more than happy to take her off his hands...

Jealousy combines with mistaken identity to throw the status of one of Romancelandia’s top five D/LG couples (at least!) into turmoil. Ty and Kate need to find common ground, but love is a dangerous game, no matter what your age.