Review: It Depends On What You Want
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 11, 2013
I think whether or not someone will enjoy this book depends on what they want.  The idea behind it is really intriguing, an entire Society where the men are all papas and the women are all either nannies or "littles" and married to their Papa.  The men get to leave for a while and see the rest of the world, but many choose to return and take a bride in the Abbeyville way - which is that the woman is chosen at the age of 18 to marry a man who is in his late twenties.  She is married two weeks before her 19th birthday and her husband is not allowed to consummate the marriage until the actual day of her 19th birthday to give them time to get to know each other.If the storyline sounds intriguing to you and you just want to read about an age-play relationship with lots and lots of spankings, some erotica and some other play, then this might be a good choice for you.  The scenes are well-written and very inventive - especially when Sara is punished at the same time as her friend Helen.However, if you need the plot to make any kind of sense... you might end up like me, unable to enjoy the good parts because the rest of it is bothering you so much.  First of all - why did Sara even dream of having an adult life with parties and grown-up activities?  What on earth about her atmosphere / raising gave her the idea that her life would be anything like then when she was raised in a community where that doesn't happen?  She is in NO way prepared for what her life will be like upon marriage, even though the entire community is based on this kind of life... it makes absolutely no sense.Following that is how quickly the characters fall in "love."  Despite the fact that Sara hates everything David and her Nanny do to her, despite the extremely harsh spankings that she receives, and her conviction to run away... she also falls "in love" with her husband within a 48 time period where she's hating everything that's done to her and is receiving no pleasure or promise of relief.It's like the author wanted to write an age-play story with a young woman who was unprepared for the way of life, but also had a great idea for the Abbeyville Community and just decided to throw both story-lines together without thinking about how they didn't make sense.  It also seemed like the author didn't want to be bothered with taking the time to build up love and trust between Sara and her husband/Papa - it was just easier to say "oh they're in love now" even though they met on the day of their wedding and their first interactions were all punishment.  There's no tension between the characters, very little chemistry and the whole "love" thing had me rolling my eyes.  Sara is very quickly devoted to her husband and her new way of life without any real motivation or explanation.Then, at several points in the book, it's like the author forgets what she wrote about the community.  At the beginning of the book Abbeyville is all about making sure that the women are cherished and cared for - that's what Helen tells her and what her husband and Nanny tells her.  But Nanny and her husband also make her wait to eat until everyone else is done and she can be fed - shouldn't a cherished "little girl" be fed FIRST?  And then about halfway through the book when we meet men other than Helen's Papa Stanley, we find out that they think the women are there for THEIR pleasure and don't need to be treated well at all.  That's completely contrary to what the beginning of the book said about the Papas being screened and interviewed before they returned to the community and were allowed to become Papas.  There are just tons of plot-holes, contradictions and confusing moments like that.If that kind of thing doesn't bother you... then you'll probably like the book.  It's got a lot of really hot scenes, a lot of great discipline scenes, and has a lot of creative and interesting ideas within it.  But if you're like me and you need the story line and character motivations to make sense because you won't be satisfied by the subject matter alone and you need/want the overall plot to be just as good as the standalone scenes, then this is not the book for you.