Reviewed by Donna
TITLE: David’s Selfie
AUTHOR: Daisy Harris
PUBLISHER: Samhain Publishing
LENGTH: 117 Pages
BLURB:
When David, a single father, vows to get laid just once before the year ends, he doesn’t figure on losing his cell phone—and with it one very revealing picture. Lucky for him, his phone is found by a disarmingly handsome man who might be perfect for the kind of casual Christmas fling David is after.
Go-go dancer Craig never would have guessed that the guy with the cute cock shot would turn out to be a doctor. Or that he’d find himself lying about his night job and worrying David will find out the truth. To complicate matters, each of their hook-ups requires days of planning. Yet before he knows it, Craig has a new boyfriend, and possibly a whole new family.
David’s ready to dive head-first into something new, but if Craig’s going to commit, he’ll need to come clean about his job, his past, and—most of all—the naughty picture that drew him to David in the first place.
Warning: Contains a male exotic dancer and extremely intimate photography. May contain traces of Zumba, bad roommates, and sad childhoods.
Call your doctor if after six hours you still can’t get the grin off your face.
REVIEW:
Coming into the Christmas season this is just the sort of quick, light, holiday read that I keep an eye out for. Non-angsty and lots of fun the two main characters’ self-doubting antics left me grinning rather than exasperated.
The story begins with single father David, leg in the air in the bathroom, trying to get a photo of his dangly bits to send to someone he hopes will become an online hookup. Poor David is a single father to three-year-old Maia, who he has been raising alone since the death of his wife over a year earlier. David is bi-sexual but is looking for sex with a man rather than a woman because he’s concerned that a woman may remind him of his beloved, deceased wife. But David is sadly lacking in “hookup” practice, which results in him finding himself hiding in the bathroom of a club called Pony having an asthma attack while his leather daddy date is searching the club for him outside. In his rush to flee the scene he leaves behind his phone.
Craig is a go-go dancer who is sick of being treated like a sex worker. He may be shaking his ass at Pony to help pay for college but he draws the line at selling it. Men tend to treat him like a prize or a prostitute and all he wants is for a guy to like him for himself. When he finds a phone in the club’s bathroom he searches through the photos hoping to find the owner among the club patrons. But instead of a face shot, he finds a cock shot that has him willing to hand deliver the phone back to its owner.
This story could have easily been loaded down with angst and drama but it was kept warm and fuzzy instead. Which is really what you want in a Christmas story, right? In my opinion a depressing holiday story is just all kinds of wrong. While the characters each doubt that they are good enough for the other they’re not ridiculous with it and thankfully David doesn’t act like the world is ending when he finally discovers the truth about Craig’s job.
Both main characters were easy to like and I didn’t find the daughter’s presence annoying at any point. I can be pretty hard to please when it comes to children in books. They always seem to act like toddlers when they’re intended to be older or they act like obnoxious brats who spout Yoda-type wisdom. Thankfully Maia is really more of a prop than a developed character, so anybody who is unsure about reading this because of the kiddie factor, I think you’re safe to proceed.
The ending, which sees the two men back at Pony, is so very cute and the epilogue finishes things in a most perfect fashion. While it is only novella length nothing about the story feels rushed or incomplete, in fact I think if the story had been longer it would have felt too drawn out and slow to develop.
If you’re looking for something quick, happy and easy to get through then I’d recommend this book.
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