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A review by vrstal
Secrets in the Dark by M.A. Innes
3.0
2.5/5.
Secrets in the Dark has an interesting premise of daddy and boy meeting at blind date in the dark - though they weren't paired together. Logan is an older lawyer who is formal and traditional, and Mason is a younger freelancer who has a hard time talking about his desires.
This book was just okay. Logan read as ND to me because of his habits and relying on formality when struggling with a social situation, which isn't a bad thing. Mason didn't express his desires well at first for fear of judgement, understandably, but is able to open up to Logan through therapeutic exercises that Logan is advised to use.
It was kinda weird that the therapist was talked to without Mason's consent, and he was never invited into those conversations when they are all about him. Now of course people talk about their significant others with their therapists but this guy is like... a BDSM/sex therapist? So I think it's a bit different. My main issue though is that while this is called an age-play book, there is only one age play scene at the very end. This is more accurately a book about daddy kink and orgasm denial. That is fine, but I wish it had been clear in the blurb so my expectations were not for something else.
Another issue I had is that this book cuts off weirdly. These two meet, get in a relationship, get deep in the dynamic in a couple of weeks and then... it ends. no "I love yous", no marriage, no moving-in-together. It ends with a chapter-long age play + sex scene. So I guess its a HFN, but it felt like the book was clipped off more than it was wrapped up nicely. A shame.
Secrets in the Dark has an interesting premise of daddy and boy meeting at blind date in the dark - though they weren't paired together. Logan is an older lawyer who is formal and traditional, and Mason is a younger freelancer who has a hard time talking about his desires.
This book was just okay. Logan read as ND to me because of his habits and relying on formality when struggling with a social situation, which isn't a bad thing. Mason didn't express his desires well at first for fear of judgement, understandably, but is able to open up to Logan through therapeutic exercises that Logan is advised to use.
It was kinda weird that the therapist was talked to without Mason's consent, and he was never invited into those conversations when they are all about him. Now of course people talk about their significant others with their therapists but this guy is like... a BDSM/sex therapist? So I think it's a bit different. My main issue though is that while this is called an age-play book, there is only one age play scene at the very end. This is more accurately a book about daddy kink and orgasm denial. That is fine, but I wish it had been clear in the blurb so my expectations were not for something else.
Another issue I had is that this book cuts off weirdly. These two meet, get in a relationship, get deep in the dynamic in a couple of weeks and then... it ends. no "I love yous", no marriage, no moving-in-together. It ends with a chapter-long age play + sex scene. So I guess its a HFN, but it felt like the book was clipped off more than it was wrapped up nicely. A shame.