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Gentle Hand by Nora Phoenix

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“P-punishment?” Raf’s eyes widened. Brendan nodded. “Yes, because naughty boys should get punished, don’t you think?” Raf looked puzzled. “When you say it like that, with your voice all low and sexy, it doesn’t sound like punishment.”

I don’t really have tons of thoughts about this one, other than that it was a well written book about a young man with ADHD and depression trying to find his place/people in this world. Up until this point he hadn’t found that one kink that really spoke to him. He finds a really patient and sweet older Daddy who introduces him to age play.

I enjoyed that it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows all the way through. It’s still low angst and sweet, but maybe not as sugary sweet as some other D/l books tend to be.

His mind had conjured up about a million things that could go wrong, and he hadn’t even tried all that hard.

Definitely a few editing/proofing issues that took me out of the story at times, but I still enjoyed it.

Blanket spoiler warning ⬇️

⚠️ Tropes & tags ⚠️
Age gap
Daddy/little
Age play
ABDL w/wetting
Hurt/comfort
Past trauma
ADHD rep

⚠️⚠️ Content warning ⚠️⚠️
Explicit sexual content
ABDL
Wetting
Depression
Mentions of conversion therapy
Parental neglect and mistreatment

⚠️⚠️⚠️ Book safety ⚠️⚠️⚠️
Cheating: No
OM drama: No
Third-act breakup: No
POV: 3rd person, dual POV
Strict roles or versatile: Strict roles