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blackcat23's review
1.0
I was okay with this book but when the author referenced himself in the book along with the description “hopelessly ugly” he lost me. Self reference is really off putting and it’s like he was fishing for compliments. Now he may have thought it was funny and it’s just my opinion but it killed my will to finish the book. Seth if you read this I’m sorry because I like some of your other books but you and I both know you’re not a bit ugly.
brendymegs's review
5.0
Another brilliant story from an amazing author
When I read the excerpts Seth King posted on his author page for Daddy Issues, I had high expectations for this book and Seth did not disappoint.
22 year old Elliot Prince and 41 year old Robert Glazer had an instant attraction when they met following the death of Elliot’s grandmother. Only it wasn’t the first time they were meeting. Ten years previous, Robert had been married to Elliot’s mother for a very short time before he accepted his sexuality and told her he was gay. During the marriage Elliot barely knew Robert as he lived with his father and didn’t spend much time with his mother. Despite this fact, they still felt it was wrong to pursue each other and tried to fight the attraction which only grew stronger until they were craving each other.
Daddy Issues is a beautiful love story told from both Elliot and Robert points of view, which I really loved because it gave the reader an insight into what both characters were thinking and feeling during this emotional roller coaster of a story.
It is really hard to review a Seth King book and tell you what I loved without using spoilers, and there was so much that I loved that I can’t tell you. You have to experience this book for yourself.
This book is funny, emotional, suspenseful, and is packed with family drama. It had me crying sad and happy tears. I would expect nothing else from Seth King’s writing. It’s one of the things I love most about Seth’s work is that he makes the reader feel what his characters are feeling.
There are some steamy scenes in this book, but I think it is just enough to enhance the story and not there for the sake of it. Although I am not opposed to some hotness.
I wanted to read it slowly to savour the first time read and at the same time read it quickly because I needed to know the plight of these characters. As usual the need to know in me won and I read the book quickly. The ending was the worst part about this book, because it ended and it left me wanting more.
This is another 5-star book from Seth King and that’s only because the rating doesn’t go higher.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good love story because love is love and age is just a number.
When I read the excerpts Seth King posted on his author page for Daddy Issues, I had high expectations for this book and Seth did not disappoint.
22 year old Elliot Prince and 41 year old Robert Glazer had an instant attraction when they met following the death of Elliot’s grandmother. Only it wasn’t the first time they were meeting. Ten years previous, Robert had been married to Elliot’s mother for a very short time before he accepted his sexuality and told her he was gay. During the marriage Elliot barely knew Robert as he lived with his father and didn’t spend much time with his mother. Despite this fact, they still felt it was wrong to pursue each other and tried to fight the attraction which only grew stronger until they were craving each other.
Daddy Issues is a beautiful love story told from both Elliot and Robert points of view, which I really loved because it gave the reader an insight into what both characters were thinking and feeling during this emotional roller coaster of a story.
It is really hard to review a Seth King book and tell you what I loved without using spoilers, and there was so much that I loved that I can’t tell you. You have to experience this book for yourself.
This book is funny, emotional, suspenseful, and is packed with family drama. It had me crying sad and happy tears. I would expect nothing else from Seth King’s writing. It’s one of the things I love most about Seth’s work is that he makes the reader feel what his characters are feeling.
There are some steamy scenes in this book, but I think it is just enough to enhance the story and not there for the sake of it. Although I am not opposed to some hotness.
I wanted to read it slowly to savour the first time read and at the same time read it quickly because I needed to know the plight of these characters. As usual the need to know in me won and I read the book quickly. The ending was the worst part about this book, because it ended and it left me wanting more.
This is another 5-star book from Seth King and that’s only because the rating doesn’t go higher.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good love story because love is love and age is just a number.
ocinovel's review
3.0
Premise: Young man falls in love with his step father after seeing him again for the first time years after the latter’s divorce from the young man’s mother.
What I liked about it:
+ The concept of the forbidden romance between a young man and his ex-step father (if it was well written).
What I didn’t like about it:
- The writing feels a little weird at times. I didn’t like the first two chapters describing the main characters’ first meeting. It’s lust a first sight and the author makes that fact really clear.
- How judgemental Eliot seems regarding other people’s appearance and how to determine one’s sexuality based on one’s appearance.
- The dialogue and the characters feel weirdly written and makes me wonder if people really talk like that in real life. Everything seems to be about sex.
- The pacing is weird and the story doesn’t seem to flow correctly.
- The NC scenes are badly written imo. They happen very fast and the description is brief and almost clinical. We do not get to explore the characters’ emotions during that scene.
- The characters are rather one-dimensional and seem to deal with the events in the book in an unrealistic way. They do not do a good job a communicating whatever they feel to the readers. Their monologues don’t help us understand them at all and whatever issues they are going through, the author makes it difficult for the readers to care. One character is supposed to be older than the other and yet there doesn’t seem to be big difference between their POVs.
- The author doesn’t do a good job in building the world they live in including their friends and family and how their interactions with them changes them as a person.
- The MLs seems horny all the time and most of their interactions seems to be about sex. It makes this book feel more like an unedited fanfic rather than a book. So when emotions suddenly come in to play, they feel empty. It is difficult to care the characters haven’t spent meaningful time together.
Conclusion: All in all, this just seems like a horny fanfic published as a book. I didn’t enjoy my time with it and simply rushed my way through it.
What I liked about it:
+ The concept of the forbidden romance between a young man and his ex-step father (if it was well written).
What I didn’t like about it:
- The writing feels a little weird at times. I didn’t like the first two chapters describing the main characters’ first meeting. It’s lust a first sight and the author makes that fact really clear.
- How judgemental Eliot seems regarding other people’s appearance and how to determine one’s sexuality based on one’s appearance.
- The dialogue and the characters feel weirdly written and makes me wonder if people really talk like that in real life. Everything seems to be about sex.
- The pacing is weird and the story doesn’t seem to flow correctly.
- The NC scenes are badly written imo. They happen very fast and the description is brief and almost clinical. We do not get to explore the characters’ emotions during that scene.
- The characters are rather one-dimensional and seem to deal with the events in the book in an unrealistic way. They do not do a good job a communicating whatever they feel to the readers. Their monologues don’t help us understand them at all and whatever issues they are going through, the author makes it difficult for the readers to care. One character is supposed to be older than the other and yet there doesn’t seem to be big difference between their POVs.
- The author doesn’t do a good job in building the world they live in including their friends and family and how their interactions with them changes them as a person.
- The MLs seems horny all the time and most of their interactions seems to be about sex. It makes this book feel more like an unedited fanfic rather than a book. So when emotions suddenly come in to play, they feel empty. It is difficult to care the characters haven’t spent meaningful time together.
Conclusion: All in all, this just seems like a horny fanfic published as a book. I didn’t enjoy my time with it and simply rushed my way through it.
missysreadingcorner's review
5.0
Great Ending!
Damn you, Seth King! That ending almost ruined me. I loved this story. Eliot and Robert were great together. I really enjoyed Eliot’s mom. I can’t describe how much I enjoyed this book.
Damn you, Seth King! That ending almost ruined me. I loved this story. Eliot and Robert were great together. I really enjoyed Eliot’s mom. I can’t describe how much I enjoyed this book.
lbrick363's review
2.0
Eh...
Not really a great story. The angst just wasn't there and it was so long winded in some places. I didn't get his ridiculous daydream.
Not really a great story. The angst just wasn't there and it was so long winded in some places. I didn't get his ridiculous daydream.
lvndrgms3's review
3.0
The first couple of chapters before Eliot and Robert even speak to each other are brilliant. I liked how the author described the intensity and that desire between them, and also how their minds were all over the place realizing who the other was and what it would mean or what it would like. In fact, a good chunk of the story is about how people would react to them, especially Eliot’s mother.
The only thing off to me was the sequence at the end which reminded me of a ploy the author used in another of his books that I’d recently read. Overall a good read but to me, his book, Honesty, is still tops on my list.
The only thing off to me was the sequence at the end which reminded me of a ploy the author used in another of his books that I’d recently read. Overall a good read but to me, his book, Honesty, is still tops on my list.
kittenreader's review
1.0
I was only able to make it up to 10% and that involved putting the book down a lot. It tells instead of showing and the telling is very repetitive.
recepanda7's review
3.0
Almost tossed my NooKie!
I gave this book 3* because I enjoyed the story. Towards the end I almost tossed my Nook across the room but glad I didn't. Well played Mr. King and I will continue on to the next book! Loved the development of this complex relationship and thrilled when they brave to take a leap because they were right...Love is love.
I gave this book 3* because I enjoyed the story. Towards the end I almost tossed my Nook across the room but glad I didn't. Well played Mr. King and I will continue on to the next book! Loved the development of this complex relationship and thrilled when they brave to take a leap because they were right...Love is love.