Reviewed by Jess
TITLE: Santa Daddy
AUTHOR: Keira Andrews
PUBLISHER: Self-published
LENGTH: 130 pages
RELEASE DATE: November 29, 2018
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Mall Santas aren’t supposed to be hot
Hunter Adams is hopelessly adrift after college. He’s still a virgin, can’t find a real job, and has no clue what to do with his life. In desperation, he returns to his humiliating old job as an elf at the Santa’s Village in his hometown’s dying mall. The Santa on the job is an unexpectedly sexy lumberjack, twice Hunter’s size and age. He makes Hunter feel very naughty—too bad he’s grumpy and intimidating.
Years after the tragic death of his partner, Nick Spini has his beagle and long, hard days on his Christmas tree farm. That’s plenty. But he can’t refuse a loyal friend’s plea for help and finds himself filling in as Santa at the local mall. Despite Nick’s attempt to stay aloof, the beautiful, anxious young man playing elf brings out his long-dormant daddy instincts.
When a surprise blizzard traps them alone in Nick’s isolated forest home, their attraction burns even brighter. Will they surrender to the sizzling connection between them and find the release and comfort they crave?
Santa Daddy is a holiday gay romance from Keira Andrews featuring an age gap, steamy m/m first times, daddy role-playing and light spanking, Christmas romance feels, and of course a happy ending.
REVIEW:
Keira Andrews is becoming a must-read author for me. She writes such good, believable characters who have amazing chemistry with each other, and even in a short, kinky story like this, there’s always a good plot. This story totally brings the steam and then makes us fall for Hunter and Nick.
You can’t get a better holiday meet-weird than the one between anxious, unemployed college grad Hunter and gruff, isolated widower Nick. Hunter as a reluctant elf in a too-small costume and Nick as a gruff, crabby Santa who all the local moms drool over is such a good set-up for painfully awkward flirting and indignant confrontation. I like how Nick gets schooled on his vision of the typical millennial by seeing how Hunter has his own struggles very unique to his age and peer group.
It’s a short story, and much of it is erotica, but there is actual story here. It’s easy to relate to Hunter as a mid-twenties college graduate who feels he should be on a set course in life that got derailed a long time ago. I love his close relationship with his mother, who he respects and sees as a confidant and a friend. Close relationships between gay kids and their parents will always make me feel warm and fuzzy.
I like books that actually analyze and take in the whole “daddy” kink. It’s a popular erotica trope lately, but it’s tricky to work into an actual story without it sounding like a cheap porno every time. Hunter is young, but that’s not really the root of why he wants Nick as his Daddy in bed. Hunter wants someone to slow him down, take himself out of his own head, let him forget his post-grad stress for even just a little bit. And Nick understands that, because he’s not new to the kink itself. They make such an excellent match with their desires, so watching them come together and discover (or rediscover) a kink together is delicious.
If you’re looking for this year’s kinky, indulgent holiday read, this is so your pick. Tons of steam, tons of angst, tons of sweetness, and a whole lot of Christmas warmth.
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