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A review by ocinovel
Daddy Issues by Seth King
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.