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Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
"The things we worship eat us alive."
Jonah starts out this story already full of trauma. His evangelical parents discovered he was gay and sent him to conversion therapy, which of course failed spectacularly. Now he is barely surviving in New York, waiting tables with his dreams of being a successful playwright one day. His first step in achieving that dream is to orchestrate a meeting between himself and successful playwright Richard Shriver. But when that meeting eventually leads to a summer on Richard's Hamptons compound as his boy-toy, Jonah gets a whole lot more than he bargained for.
This book went all sorts of places I wasn't expecting, and frankly I'm still thinking about it a month after I read it. I think it has a lot to say about the #metoo movement and the way victims can become perpetrators and perpetrators can become victims. Honestly, I would have given this 4 stars instead of 3 if it hadn't taken what felt like an off-course turn about 3/4 of the way through. The story finds its way back before the end, but that one turn felt extraneous.
Content warning: There is a lot of explicit sexual assault and violence in this book.
Jonah starts out this story already full of trauma. His evangelical parents discovered he was gay and sent him to conversion therapy, which of course failed spectacularly. Now he is barely surviving in New York, waiting tables with his dreams of being a successful playwright one day. His first step in achieving that dream is to orchestrate a meeting between himself and successful playwright Richard Shriver. But when that meeting eventually leads to a summer on Richard's Hamptons compound as his boy-toy, Jonah gets a whole lot more than he bargained for.
This book went all sorts of places I wasn't expecting, and frankly I'm still thinking about it a month after I read it. I think it has a lot to say about the #metoo movement and the way victims can become perpetrators and perpetrators can become victims. Honestly, I would have given this 4 stars instead of 3 if it hadn't taken what felt like an off-course turn about 3/4 of the way through. The story finds its way back before the end, but that one turn felt extraneous.
Content warning: There is a lot of explicit sexual assault and violence in this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Confinement, and Toxic relationship