⭐️ 3.5/5 – Heartbreaking backstory, sweet payoff.
🌶 2.5/5 – Not all spice hits right... but Daddy still made it sweet.
This book hit me right in the damn chest. 😮💨 It's an MM DDlb age play romance about two boys—Trent and Hayden—who survived the kind of childhoods that NO ONE ever should’ve gone through. The financial stress, the emotional neglect, the domestic abuse… yeah, it wasn’t easy to read. My heart ached for them, but it made their happy ending all the more meaningful. 😭🥹
Even as kids, their bond was adorable. Trent was such a sweet, accepting little bean, and Hayden? Gosh, my poor boy deserved all the love and safety in the world. Watching Trent grow up into this kind, good-hearted man who saw and embraced all of Hayden—every part of him—was beautiful. They were just meant to be. 🥰💞
Now, as for the kink/dynamics… it was a bit much for me personally. The Daddy and age play bits? Love it! It was cute, heartwarming, even spicy in parts. But the Dom/sub, “Sir” stuff? Yeah… didn’t do it for me. I guess I’m just more of a Daddy’s girl through and through. 🙂↕️😌
And to every shitty parent out there who abuses, neglects, or abandons their kids—I wish you all nothing but pain and suffering. 💩🖕🏻
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Quotes:
My grandma called him a pack rat in training, but I didn’t think he looked like a rat. She’d just laughed when I told her that. He was kind of scrawny but not creepy looking and didn’t have to be chased out with the broom, so I didn’t get it.
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“But are you a girl? They sometimes don’t have much boobs either. Like Annie down the street. She’s old enough to date and don’t got no boobs.” Grandma said she was just a late bloomer, but I wasn’t sure what flowers had to do with it.
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I gave him a hug but maybe it was too hard because he kind of squeaked like a dog toy that I’d stepped on. “Sorry.”
Had I broken him?
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“Do you like your dick? I don’t think you get to keep that if you get turned into a girl.”
“I want to keep that.”
“Okay. So you’re a boy who likes to get fancy.”
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When everything was simple and just a matter of understanding that everyone liked different things, life hadn’t been that complicated.
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I didn’t know why I was surprised. This was the guy who at eight had decided it was cool if I liked dresses just because he hadn’t wanted to see me cry.
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“I love my needy, slutty boy. Don’t ever forget that.”
He was everything I’d ever wanted.
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“Do you like it when I play with your titties? I bet you’d like my mouth on your pretty titties.”
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“Have I told you recently how much I love you?”
“No, it’s been hours since I heard it. You’re falling behind.”
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“Who do you belong to, boy?”
“You. Always you.”
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“One of these days I’m going to slip a ring on your finger and we’re going to buy me a pretty dress and I’m going to get the most incredible present I’ve been dreaming about since I was a kid.”
“Baby. Just when I think nothing in the world could make our life better, you surprise me with something else. I’ve never loved anyone or anything more than I love you. You’ve been in my heart since before I knew what love was, and I can’t imagine life without you.”
“And you’ll never have to.”
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⚠️ Detailed spoiler below ⛔️
RC and MCs:
🎀 MM, strict top/bottom
🎀 Trent 18yo and Hayden aka Hailey 18yo
🎀 Trent: Top, Daddy Dom, Sir, muscular
🎀 Hayden: Bottom, sub, little boy, lean
Genre and tropes:
🎀 MM contemporary romance
🎀 Coming of age romance
🎀 Age play
🎀 Daddy/little dynamic
🎀 Childhood friends to lovers
🎀 Kink explorations
🎀 Double virgin MCs
🎀 First times
🎀 Femme MC
🎀 Caretaker protective Daddy
🎀 Who do you belong to?
🎀 Pet names: Baby
Safety info:
🎀 Angst: Medium
🎀 OW/OM drama: No
🎀 Cheating/sharing: No
🎀 Third act breakup: No
🎀 Ending: HFN
🎀 Epilogue: No
🎀 POV: Dual, 1st person
🎀 Series structure: Standalone
Spice and kinks:
Daddy/little dynamic, age play (little, changing clothes, binkie, baby doll, feminization (nightgown, lace panties, barrette/hair clip, feminine terms on male anatomy (titties)), praise (good boy), spanking, cum in pants (in the car at a restaurant's parking lot), dirty talk, degradation, spanking, fingerfucking, bareback, coming hands-free
CW/TW:
Abusive parents (physical and emotional), drug addict parents, alcohol consumption, poverty, domestic hardship, trauma, emotional distress