Reviewed by Donna
TITLE: His Fake Prison Daddy
AUTHOR: Thursday Euclid & Clancy Nacht
PUBLISHER: Eine Kleine Press
LENGTH: 216 Pages
RELEASE DATE: January 15, 2020
BLURB:
When eighteen-year-old hacker Elias Stuyvesant ends up in a maximum security state prison, he’s woefully unprepared despite his time in juvie. On day one, he’s thrown in with a man known as the Santa Fe Slayer, Ambrose Hughes.
Hughes is quiet, disfigured, and weirdly urbane. Elias was so young when Hughes committed his crimes that he has only the faintest idea what Hughes is in for. However, Hughes makes clear that Elias is his ideal victim type…and there’s no one to protect Elias from the much larger man with his prison-jacked body and that hard gleam in his dark eyes.
Whoever paired them has it in for Elias; that much is obvious.
Elias is terrified of Hughes, but he soon realizes the other prisoners are worse. If Elias is going to survive, he’ll have to choose the lesser of the evils: To preserve himself, he’ll need Hughes for his Daddy. And given Hughes’s skewed morality, they’ll have to fake it till they make it.
REVIEW:
It’s time for me to confess. I’m one of those readers that likes to think they love reading dark stories. I’ll read a blurb and see words like serial killer, and prison, and victim, and violence and I’ll be all like, hell yes, this book is for me. But what I actually want is a story that is more dark-lite. I want the stabby, strangly serial killer to turn into a growly possessive teddy-bear who will fuck up anyone that messes with his boy. And that is exactly what this book was.
Pretty, blond, eighteen-year-old Elias is sent to a maximum security prison after he pisses off the warden at the juvenile facility. To make matters even worse he is locked up for endless hours with a notoriously violent serial killer who is known to eat his victims. Luckily for Elias, Hughes doesn’t like the idea of being used as an unwitting hitman, so he decides to keep Elias around. Besides, without two people, their book club couldn’t function.
The plot that drove this story outside the romance wasn’t actually what I was expecting. It was much more complex and I appreciated the fact that the authors took the time to develop the plot beyond the Daddy/boy prison shtick. It was actually much more than a bit of salacious sex with a side of danger.
While Hughes felt kind of mysterious and unknown throughout the entire story, I loved Elias. The virginal twink was a delicious blend of snarky naivety and devious siren. I loved the way he enjoyed wielding the power of Hughes’ affection for him. He went from potential prison fodder to first lady of the prison and he was very aware of the influence that granted him.
If anyone is interested in this book but is worried it sounds a bit too angsty, rest assured that you can dive right in knowing that where his boy is involved, Hughes is a nice serial killer, who only wants to eat Elias’s enemies so his boy is safe and happy. Awww, who needs flowers?!
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