Tome Thursday: Dance for Daddy

 

Hello everyone!

 

Something a little less conventional from me tonight.

 

Or, unconventional, rather.

 

Then again I kind of ran across this author completely by accident, I think. I don't even fully memorize how or when I pick something up in terms of books, so this one either got me through Instagram, a recommendation, or someone on Goodreads reading it from my friends and me thinking, why not.

 

See, every once in a while, I pick a book up that's more smut than plot.

 

I call it a brain reset.

 

It doesn't require more from me than sitting there leafing through it, and the plot, however little of it there is, is brief enough that it doesn't make me bend over backwards to understand anything.

 

That's exactly what happened with tonight's book of choice.

 

Without further ado: Dance for Daddy.

 

As I don't have any other books by this same author anywhere on this blog, there aren't any links to be had down at the bottom of this page.

 

Dance for Daddy features Aileen, who's in an arranged marriage with party boy Declan, and Declan just so happens to be the youngest son of a powerful man high up in the Irish mob.

 

See, Aileen's dad owes said man, so the families arranged for the match trying to even the scales.

 

Problem is, Declan couldn't care less for Aileen, loves humiliating her for his own pleasure, and Aileen would much rather eat rocks than marry him, but a deal's a deal.

 

So when her best friend and dance instructor breaks her leg, she puts on a wig to impersonate her and go earn some extra cash at an elite burlesque club. This is where things get interesting, because not only does she basically hump a pole up on stage to get herself off in front of the audience (all consisting of high society men who just LOVE doing a little DIY right there on the spot), but after she gets rushed and flees the stage, she runs into a man she names in her head Mr. Burgundy.

 

Mr. Burgundy loves her little performance sesh so much he offers her double the money for a private dance, and turns out he's got another name, a real one: Declan's dad.

 

Whoops, Aileen thinks, now THIS is some kinky shit.

 

Does she stop?

 

Hell no.

 

Actually, I commend her for fessing up exactly how little Declan thinks of her and telling his old man Angus (who definitely does NOT look like an old man, trust me ...) what's what, which prompts Angus to reevaluate why he agreed to this arrangement in the first place.

 

Turns out, he was looking for a woman to keep in his own orbit, so he's like, you know, let's just switch.

 

Marry ME instead.

 

Considering the fact the novella then turns into one long ass sex session between these two characters that SHOULDN'T work based on who they are to one another IRL, but yet strangely enough it works just fine, thank you very much, I'd say the story accomplishes what it wants in the short amount of pages it has to work with.

 

I found it incredibly entertaining that Declan was also RIGHT THERE at the club at the same time, and while constantly telling Aileen she needs to lose weight and wear makeup and whatever, he thinks the "blonde" his dad's got for the night is the sexiest thing since sliced bread, and I was laughing so hard at that, you wouldn't believe me.

 

All in all, it ends with a quick wedding, and Declan apparently turning a page and trying to be a bit more mature, while Angus and Aileen are very clearly into one another and will keep on going at it for the rest of their natural lives.

 

Five out of five stars for helping turn my brain off, straight up communication between characters, and giving more reasons to want an older lover.

Does it have some questionable moments? Sure, and I probably wouldn't be like Aileen (seeing as I'm a skinny non-descript nobody heh), but this is a book.

I enjoyed it for what it is.

Daddy definitely delivered.

 

xx

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