Review: Enjoyable domestic discipline fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2012
Because I write domestic discipline fiction, when I ran across this book, I had to read it. I wasn't disappointed. I found an Old-Fashioned Man to be a likable, enjoyable read typical for the domestic discipline genre. What commonly occurs in DD fiction is that after the hero announces he'll spank the heroine for misbehavior, she, of course, misbehaves as often as possible, leading to many spankings. An Old-Fashioned Man is no exception.In this case, Ava, a young widow with an infant son, goes to spend the holidays with her friend Frankie and her family of brothers. But it isn't until she gets there that she discovers that this old-fashioned family protects its women by spanking them for their own good. And now that Ava is under their roof, she's subject to the family's rules. Ava and Heath, the oldest brother and the head of the family, are instantly attracted to one another, but that doesn't stop Heath from spanking her when she misbehaves by not taking care of her health.I only had a couple of glitches with this story. First, there's was an incident in which Ava became ill, during which time the family took care of her son. After she was starting to recover, she wanted to tend to her son, but one of the brothers threatened to spank her for doing so (he thought she wasn't well enough yet). Spanking is the whole point of DD fiction, but I thought it was excessive to threaten to spank a mother for wanting to take care of her child. That did not sit well with me.Second, I thought the background related in the first few pages should have been "dribbled" into the story instead of presented all at once, but it was only a few pages and the story moved quickly after that.The other thing I'd like to add is that while this book is labeled "adults only," with the exception of adults spanking adults, it's pretty much G-rated. There are no sex scenes in this book (part of Frankie's family's old-fashioned values to not have sex before marriage).And Old-Fashioned Man is a quick, light read. Readers who enjoy domestic discipline fiction will find this an enjoyable cup of tea.