Heather Adores Books's Reviews > Sugar Plum

1⭐
Genre ~ romance
Setting ~ no idea
Publication date ~ 2019
Est page Count ~ 85 (12 chapters)
POV ~ dual 1st
Featuring ~ forbidden love, off limits, age gap (40 & 20), best friends daughter, father's best friend, virgin, curvy girl, insta~love, minimal steamage

*spoilers and rant ahead*

Yet another one I put on my kindle back in December 2020 that I most definitely wouldn't have put on there recently because it's a big nope. It was probably free so that's my excuse.

Bastian & Holly
She's had a crush on him for a while. He's been in love with her since she turned 18, like instantly he felt it when she became legal, but never said anything until she practically threw herself at him when she's 20.

I don't mind an age gap, but Holly was SO immature. Maybe I'll take my future age gap books more like 30/40, or 30/50 would maybe even be fine. I can appreciate her making the first move and I do feel like she was realistically written for her lack of experience ~ her hands shake, she stutters when she's nervous, but can I please get a somewhat realistic first time? It does not just slide in there nicely and where's the condom please. AND she was drunk just an hour ago, but all of the sudden she's stone cold sober and knows what she's doing, unacceptable. Let's wake up regretful while we're at it. You've been waiting ages for it to happen and it finally does and now all you can think about is your father. Buzz kill.

This bugged me too ~ they were at a charity benefit and as a surprise he's created the Barbara Halliday Foundation in honor of Holly's mom who died of breast cancer. That's great and all, but why wasn't Holly's dad, his BFF, there who still hasn't been able to move on from her? Rude.

Please stop calling your father Daddy. And don't call him Uncle anymore. And ewww with sharing a toothbrush.

BTW ~ Daddy didn't give one hootenanny about the situation at all....my father woulda thrown a hot fit as would my husband. And not only are we instantly in love, but we're engaged a half a minute later, please.

Not as Christmasy as I thought it would be either. There's a small bit of her decorating and they drink eggnog...that's it. Oh wait, her name is Holly Halliday and he calls her Sugar Plum, even Littlest Sugar Plum when she was younger, so I guess that's supposed to count. Let me just go throw up now with that nickname.

I don't want this to be a total negative fest, so it didn't take me too long to read it and I liked the end and how he was a great father with their 3 year old daughter, which was 7 years after they first got together, so I guess no worries from the first time with no condom.

I don't see it on Amazon any longer, so if you fancied it you're outta luck.

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