Well, I did it again! Last year I found myself reading [b:The Promise 50638930 The Promise Ki Brightly https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1579829052l/50638930.SY75.jpg 75643370] by this author and now this one. I confess to having chosen both primarily for the covers (they're yummy) and I they're both winners. This is a delicious age gap, dirty talk, almost porntastic tale about Jaxson “Jax” Bell, an ambitious recent college graduate whose flexible moral compass allows him to sleep his way up the political ladder. To this end he sets his sights on Vane Elwood, the deputy mayor of New Gothenburg, a fictional town in NYS. Flint strikes steel and we are off to the races. The age difference is never specified (maybe fifteen years), Jax is no shy virgin and Vane is ruthless in his wants and desires. What he wants includes a kink that I hadn't thought of or encountered before. I won't say what it is, you'll find out or have an idea within the first couple of chapters, he's really committed to it and Jax more than likes the results. I will say that I had the same experience with this as I did when I read my first ABDL, Daddy/little, or even puppy play: kind of funny but surprisingly hot too. To each their own in the privacy of their bedroom and I have some book recs for Vane too. Of course my problem is that I'll have to dive into the rest of these books/series set in the New Gothenburg universe. You don't have to as the standalones really do standalone but I like the writing style, the seriousness, lightness, and smexyness of the books. Sweet.One niggle towards the end there's an exchange between Vane and a Spanish speaking character. She says "Buenas noches, Vane. Comó estas?" he responds "Muy bueno. Gracias." Jax is agog that Vane speaks Spanish and Vane says "Sí. Es mi idioma segunda." He clarifies that he's barely passable (true story) but a few sentences later asserts that he learned it as a second language as a child. Needless to say ALL of Vane's spoken Spanish is off or right out wrong. It may sound like nitpicking and it means nothing in the scheme of the book but my Spanish speaking peeps will understand. It costs nothing to ask a native speaker to read and correct a paragraph. Google translate will get you out of a jam but it's generally bad to rely on it for anything important. That's all.
