MacTíre's Reviews > Wanted: Tender Daddy

Judging by the five-star ratings, I must be reading a completely different book. A book that is not at all what was said in the blurb. I'm seventy percent through the book and there's no daddy, tender, or otherwise. There's a detective, a former dom. And there has been almost no interaction with the other MC (Archie) yet. So far, they have touched (non-romantically) once.
So what happened in the previous 70% of the book? Archie rants about his trauma. Constantly. The narrative does not develop in any way. It's still the same few sentences about what happened. Over and over.
Almost the entire rest of the book was filled with characters from previous books. They remind me of cockroaches or maybe termites. They do not contribute to the plot, they just crawled into the book and slowly ate more scenes from it. Lots of names, and lots of "we are so cute" scenes, but those scenes usually go nowhere.
And the rest of the book is populated by Archie's adoptive parents, who are embarrassingly overprotective to the point that they come across as completely unrealistic parodies of the characters.
If you (like me) were looking forward to some age-play, you're out of luck until at least 70 percent of the book. Just the old boring, artificial stuff again.