Review: OK if you like stories about football, the romance (erotic or otherwise) is lacking
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2014
I can only give this book an ok rating. I was expecting an erotic romance, but found that Daddy's Game focuses more on his game, not as a daddy to his little girl, but to his professional game, football.Carmen and Natron's relationship is barely mentioned beyond a few sex scenes which only touch on the daddy/little girl aspect. I thought it was going to be really strong because it starts off with Natron explaining the dynamic to Carmen which I liked. After that the communication dies. Neither discusses their relationship together and Carmen is blindsided to hear on tv he wants to marry her. She also doesn't tell him that when he's hurt and needs help with his recovery that she feels pushed out by Natron's mom until almost at the end of his recovery. Then there's a big blow up about a picture of Natron in a tabloid with a prostitute in a hot tub. Instead of discussing it Carmen gets drunk and does a stupid, illegal move I hate in books: sets his stuff on fire. Of course, he's innocent and if she'd just thought about celebrities and tabloid and then spoken to him... There's no romance for me with out communication between the principle characters.Natron also pushes the line a couple of times including one when he beats Carmen with a belt in drunken anger (because of his work situation) and she's worried he'll get her with a buckle. She doesn't use her safeword. Bad, irresponsible dom, bad, irresponsible submissive. We know she knows how to use a safeword and that it's her prerogative because it's mentioned a couple of times by her and by her other "little girl" friends. He does apologize the next day, but we don't get access to the details, the text just says he apologizes and it's back to the text giving us more info. about his job.About the erotic part: I didn't find the book really steamy, again probably because I didn't feel the characters were really connected. There is a pony play scene which kind of comes out of nowhere and I'm not sure how it fits with a daddy/little girl relationship.The rest of the book was about Natron and football. I don't mind sports heroes and getting a little detail about his work situation, but I was reading this for the (erotic)romance.So, while the writing flowed well and the story moved along, I'd say 80% was about Natron and football and 20% was about Carmen and Natron, but wasn't well developed and had some problems for me.I received a copy from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review.