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ARC Review: The Daddy Upgrade by Chara Croft (Dirty Daddies Pride 2022)

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Dirty Daddies Pride 2022 by Rayanna Jamison Rating: 5 of 5 stars This review is for  The Daddy Upgrade  by Chara Croft Content Warnings for book: N/A Kink: Daddy kink, plush play, referenced off-screen age play What a sweet and adorable novella! Chara Croft's writing in this is amazing as usual. I didn't see any errors or issues, but beyond that, I loved how you could tell the difference between each POV, as Croft always has this unique way of tapping into the voices of her characters through language choices and the way their thoughts come onto page. Ollie and Yves were so sweet together. I hated Grant and the way he treated Ollie, so I am very happy that Yves found him and helped him out. We get a kink awakening here with Ollie being new to being a little, while Yves is an experienced daddy. Unfortunately there is no on-page ageplay or exploration of the non-sexual little side, but we do get plenty of sweet heat with this. The bedroom scenes were hot, especially with the
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Review: By Pain of Death by Suzanne Clay

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By Pain of Death by Suzanne Clay Rating: 5 of 5 stars Content Warnings for book: Depictions of chronic pain, agoraphobia, reference to off-page sexual assault (not by or about MCs), reference to suicide, misgendering, death Kink: N/A, has one veiled sex scene "Stop. Torturing. Yourself. For me," Seph whispered between kisses. Then he held him tightly, a warm barrier against spine-covered terror. "Stop. Stop, stop, stop." "I want to be better than this..." "You are exactly who I want you to be." Seph sucked in a gasp of wet air, speaking through quiet tears. "Upon my word, whatever fears you have, whatever pain you feel, I don't care for you despite them. They're a part of you. Do you understand? And whatever makes up who you are? That's what I'm falling deeper and deeper for every time I see you." I... am finding it difficult to put to words how this made me feel except that despite it's length (40ish pages),
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Review: -30- by Clinton W. Waters

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-30- by Clinton W. Waters Rating:  4 of 5 stars A friend recommended this to me because it was thought-provoking for them, and I was intrigued. I knew it had a romantic subplot (in general, I read only MM romance), and I was intrigued by the concept and admittedly, it's length. Waters' writing is really well done. Not only do they know how to excellent pace a novella and use the pages they've put down, but they also have evocative writing. Through the first half I didn't feel like I was touching on emotional beats, but as we got along further, suddenly all the emotions came! There is also some sci-fi worldbuilding in here that was woven within the narrative, so nothing felt like an infodump. Despite it's futuristic and fictional premise, there was a lot of that rang true to life now: thoughts about technology, memories, and grief. I cried a lot in this story. Having known the pain of loss, personally, and also the way that desiring death during those dark moments,
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ARC Review: Daddy's Adorable Assassin by Gianni Holmes

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Daddy's Adorable Assassin by Gianni Holmes Rating : 5 of 5 stars Content Warnings for book: Physical abuse (between MCs), emotional abuse (between MCs), toxic jealousy, disordered eating and body checking, gross child endangerment, parental neglect, parental abuse, reference to attempted child murder, murder, killer for hire, dubcon (between MCs and between others), noncon (between MCs and between others), morally reprehensible MCs, cheating, gun violence, victim blaming, child grooming, manipulation, blackmail, betrayal, incarceration, forced isolation, sex injury, infantilization, claustrophobia (due to being buried alive), disrespect of the dead and graves Kink: Ageplay, ABDL, daddy kink, knifeplay, blood play, dollification, purposeful sex without lube, rough sex If you've read Daddy's Stepstalker by Gianni Holmes, you know that this author is willing to cross lines and make dark romances dark, not softening the edges or morals of the characters involved to m
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Weekly Reads (May 2nd - May 8th)

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  Read: Roman by Grae Bryan . eBook. ARC provided by GRR. 5/5. Omg. Y'all. I'm obsessed with this book. It's an author debut and it is soooo good. Fated mates, sweet possessiveness, level-headed MCs, characters that truly shine, fleshed out side characters... seriously. So good! If you like things on the instaconnection side, vampires, all of that-- check it out. Read my full review here. We Choose You by Katy Manz . eBook. ARC provided by GRR. 3/5. What a sweet and adorable MMM romance, and touching on a concept I haven't seen before. We all wonder what happens if those fated just don't meet at the right time, because life happens, and they're with other people. What do you do? Manz aims to explore this and this low-angst novella crafts a sweet story through it. Read my full review here. The Keystone Alphas by Ashe Moon . eBook. KU. 3/5. This is a harem-style MMMM romance, between three alphas and one omega. I liked the sort of OHSHC vibes we got in the beginni
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ARC Review: We Choose You: An M/M Shifter MPREG Romance (Choice Versus Fate Book 1) by Katy Manz

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  We Choose You by Katy Manz Rating : 3 of 5 Stars Content Warnings for book : Off-page parental neglect, off-page parental death Kink : Group sex We Choose You is a cute MMM novella about an alpha who has an established and happy marriage and mating with a beta, and the fated omega he finds ten years after. So begs the question of choice versus fate, and if these three can find happiness. I thought this novella was overall very cute! There is a lot of presence of children, so if that isn't your thing, you might not like this book. I was surprised to find this was a shifter world (the ARC I received didn't mention the shifter part), but it wasn't a bad thing. I do think that aspect of the world left a little bit to be desired in fleshing it out, because it was approached so nonchalantly - I couldn't tell you if humans knew about shifters or not, it seemed it could be either way. The bigger theme of this book - choice versus fate - was an interesting one. I liked the id
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Review: Twice Bitten (Javier Coven 3) by Jayda Marx

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  Twice Bitten by Jayda Marx Rating:   3.5 of 5 Stars Content Warnings for book: Gun violence, blood, gore Kink: Bondage, group sex Twice Bitten by Jayda Marx is the final in the Javier Coven series, featuring Sam and the twins Flynn and Fletcher. We get ourselves a MMM romance where the twins have romantic feelings for Sam, but not with each other. This was a funny read because the antics of the vampires and Sam's humor are hilarious to me. I chuckled a lot and enjoyed the back and forth. These two come together in typical Jayda fashion: just a moment of sadness and then it is all fixed up. There's a lot more jealousy between the twins than I expected, which was interesting. However, I found the sex scenes lacking a tad in feeling all the details of whatever was doing was included. I'm sad to see this found vampire family come to an end, but thankfully there's a spin-off where we see them again! View my other reviews here
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