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On Your Knees
by Tristina Brockway
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Rating: βοΈ.5
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Relationship: MW
Tropes/content: Age gap (30 years), priest romance, daddy kink, virgin main character, praise, forbidden, light breeding kink, baptism scene π
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Bella has been secretly pining after Father Elijah for years, but never given into her desires. When she turns eighteen, she decides she's ready to make her move. Father Elijah wants Bella, but he tries to fight his desires. When she tells him she needs his help learning about pleasure, he can't help but say yes and becomes her daddy.
This book had so much potential, but ultimately, it fell flat for me. There's a few issues with this book. The first is the length. This book is way too short for everything in it. Bella and Elijah barely have time to develop a relationship. I think instalust can be done well, but it didn't work here. On top of their relationship, there's a plot line between Bella and her mom, Bella's mom and Father Elijah, and one with all three of them. There's barely any time given to those plotlines and everything happens so fast. It's chaotic in a way that isn't enjoyable because you can't get invested as a reader.
My other issue was the way plotlines were dropped. Father Elijah has a plotline with her mom that's never talked about after it occurs. We never understand why it happened, how it started, etc. Bella witnessed it, which knowing how she feels about him, makes it hard for me to believe she wouldn't have questions. Another one is that Father Elijah is a priest. Priests can't have sex. Yet, Father Elijah does and says he's going to marry Bella. Now how does that work? How can he be a priest and marry her? At the end, he's still a priest and they're together at the church. It doesn't make sense and is never really explained.
My last major issue is with the spice. Some of it was good. There's a scene where he tells her to "baptize his π in her π¦" so they can be reborn together. So hot. Yet, a lot of the spicy scenes felt corny and lacking any feeling. This is supposed to be a super forbidden/taboo relationship, but the spicy scenes don't have much behind them except for a few parts. I think some of that comes down to the writing (overuse of exclamation points during spicy scenes) and the lack of connection to the characters because of how fast paved the story is.
Thank you to Tristina and Unalive Promotions for the early copy.
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Rating: βοΈ.5
Spice: π₯π₯π₯
Relationship: MW
Tropes/content: Age gap (30 years), priest romance, daddy kink, virgin main character, praise, forbidden, light breeding kink, baptism scene π
β οΈCheck triggersβ οΈ
Bella has been secretly pining after Father Elijah for years, but never given into her desires. When she turns eighteen, she decides she's ready to make her move. Father Elijah wants Bella, but he tries to fight his desires. When she tells him she needs his help learning about pleasure, he can't help but say yes and becomes her daddy.
This book had so much potential, but ultimately, it fell flat for me. There's a few issues with this book. The first is the length. This book is way too short for everything in it. Bella and Elijah barely have time to develop a relationship. I think instalust can be done well, but it didn't work here. On top of their relationship, there's a plot line between Bella and her mom, Bella's mom and Father Elijah, and one with all three of them. There's barely any time given to those plotlines and everything happens so fast. It's chaotic in a way that isn't enjoyable because you can't get invested as a reader.
My other issue was the way plotlines were dropped. Father Elijah has a plotline with her mom that's never talked about after it occurs. We never understand why it happened, how it started, etc. Bella witnessed it, which knowing how she feels about him, makes it hard for me to believe she wouldn't have questions. Another one is that Father Elijah is a priest. Priests can't have sex. Yet, Father Elijah does and says he's going to marry Bella. Now how does that work? How can he be a priest and marry her? At the end, he's still a priest and they're together at the church. It doesn't make sense and is never really explained.
My last major issue is with the spice. Some of it was good. There's a scene where he tells her to "baptize his π in her π¦" so they can be reborn together. So hot. Yet, a lot of the spicy scenes felt corny and lacking any feeling. This is supposed to be a super forbidden/taboo relationship, but the spicy scenes don't have much behind them except for a few parts. I think some of that comes down to the writing (overuse of exclamation points during spicy scenes) and the lack of connection to the characters because of how fast paved the story is.
Thank you to Tristina and Unalive Promotions for the early copy.