The Daddy Arrangement by Jesse H Reign: My Review
The Daddy Arrangement is the third book in The Situationship Series by Jesse H Reign. This series has easily become one of my absolute favorites.
Continue reading below to see what I thought of this age-gap, Daddy kink romance.
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The Daddy Arrangement – Summary
Someone once told me I give Daddy Issues a bad name. I laughed at the time, but since I found myself living with my dad’s best friend, Stuart Wiseman, it doesn’t feel all that funny anymore.
Living with him is a nightmare. He’s super pedantic about everything. He took one look at me and decided I need help with adulting, and he seems absolutely positive he’s the man for the job. He’s hellbent on improving me, scolding me about this and correcting me on that.
Obviously I don’t take it lying down, I give as good as I get.
Things come to a head one night and I find myself staring down the barrel of a thick, angry index finger pointed close to my face.
“You’re playing with fire, Boy, and you’re headed for leather.”
Every schema I’ve ever used to make sense of the world implodes.
I’m furious. I hate it. Fully hate it. Hate every single thing about it.
Except that I don’t – and that makes it worse. Way worse. Some stupid part of me loves it. Some even stupider part craves it.
Lucky for me, Stuart knows a Daddy’s boy when he sees one. He offers to discipline and take care of me, to do the hard parts of adulting for me until I get back on my feet. Obviously, it isn’t a relationship. He’s literally old enough to be my father. So no, it’s not a relationship. Get your mind out of the gutter. It’s an arrangement…A Daddy Arrangement.
And that’s all it will ever be.
Right?
The Daddy Arrangement – My Review
The Daddy Arrangement has easily earned a spot on my absolute favorite M/M romance books of all time list. That being said, if you are uncomfortable with Daddy kink, then this book is a big skip for you.
However, if you are of the opinion that it’s one of the hottest kinks to exist (much like myself), then you are in the right place. If this is something you aren’t sure about, I highly recommend giving this book a go because it is Daddy/boy romance done so well.
I loved the build up to The Daddy Arrangement. Over the course of the first two books in The Situationship Series, Jesse H Reign has set Gould up as being such a Daddy’s boy. By the time we finally get to his book, it makes so much sense for this type of relationship to be something he needs. And Stuart is more than happy to give it to him.
Stuart is Gould’s absentee father’s best friend, but the two men couldn’t be more different. Stuart is everything that Gould wishes his dad was. He is dependable, present, and it seems like he actually cares about Gould.
Once Gould moves into Stuart’s house, Stuart can’t help but start to take him under his wing.
"This boy is the definition of hard work. He's rude and entitled. Ungrateful in spades. He's arrogant and spoiled and has no clue how to behave. He couldn't adult his way out of a paper bag if his life depended on it. Not only that, he's angry and defensive about it. I don't think I'm overstating when I say he's the proud owner of the single biggest attitude problem I've ever encountered. To put it another way... he's like catnip to me."
Everything that Stuart says is genuine. He isn’t saying anything to play a part or to pretend to be a Daddy. He believes in what he is doing. Being a Daddy is who he is inside and out. It’s what makes the book so authentic and moving.
Because Stuart is Gould’s dad’s best friend and he is much older, he doesn’t allow the relationship to be sexual in nature. He simply creates rules and structure that Gould has always desperately needed and wanted.
Stuart also makes it clear that there will be consequences for these rules not being followed. Consequences of the spanking variety.
Gould is shocked by how much this affects him. It is something that he didn’t know he’s needed. But, the platonic spanking just isn’t enough for long.
"In my time, a lot of people have told me I'm a spoiled, or a brat, or a spoiled brat, or some other combination of negative attributes that amount to the same thing. Tonight, for the first time, I'm coming face-to-face with the realization that it might be true. Sitting so close to what I want and not having it makes me feel unhinged. Not just unhinged. I'm teetering dangerously close to losing my shit."
From here, I will let you read the book to see how everything unfolds. But, the asterisk beside the five peppers for the heat rating is because I was tempted to put ten peppers for how hot this book gets. But I was able to restrain myself to the five pepper system.
Just know that it was hard for me.
And that the asterisk stands for a metaphorical ten peppers.
All of this rambling to say that this book brings the HEAT.
I really enjoyed how Gould, or Elliot as Stuart would prefer, grows and matures and finds himself in this book. He goes from a person that even his closest friends would call a mess to someone who can effectively take care of himself. With his Daddy’s help of course.
He does slip up a few times. One of my favorite parts of the book is when Gould acts like a fool while walking the dog and ends up hurting himself badly enough to need stitches. This breaks one of Stuart’s rules in a big way, so he lays out a steep punishment.
Gould has a line that had me rolling:
"I changed my clothes three times this morning, and if I keep sweating like this, I'll have to change them again. Turned out I have no idea what you're supposed to wear to a caning. Absolutely none. Not a fucking clue. Is it formal? Semi-formal? Casual?
My final verdict is that anyone who likes Daddy kink has to read this book. Anyone who doesn’t like Daddy kink also should try this book out. You might just change your mind.
You can find The Daddy Arrangement on Amazon following the link below. Enjoy!
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