His Little Man

<b>3.5 stars</b><br /><br />Hmm, I liked this better the second time I read it.<br /><br />It was such a sweet and cute age-play book. Definitely worth another re-read.

Cade and Tim discovered their kink together while creating a Daddy/little relationship. Cade was not a Daddy Dom but he did have to compensate for Tim's shyness. The story was cute and adorable.

That was adorable.<br /><br />The way this couple progresses through establishing their relationship, and how age play is going to work for them, is beautifully done.

Eh. This is not very good. For some reason I thought that this was going to be an elaborately detailed series multiple hundreds of pages etc, but it's actually like 130 pages and they were short stories I guess they were published separately originally. So basically the complete series is barely a novella. It's also just odd and I don't mean that in terms of the age play I mean that in terms of the relationship in general and how it comes to pass and also the lack of any sort of development.<br /><br />Basically there's two guys who are neighbors and they have a really thin walls and so when one of the guys starts giving himself pep talks to like work up the courage to try diapers and ABDL, his neighbor hears him across the wall and just decides that he wants to be a Daddy now. Sexual age play is not my favorite thing and that's pretty much all this book is. I do generally enjoy each age play but this was just not very well done. Nothing is really discussed very well and these guys are strangers basically. Any sort of their non-sexual conversations are jumped over and talked about after the fact and nothing happens in the moment. It is not one that I would read again and not one that I would recommend.

Very sweet about next door neighbors who overhear each other and decide to give a relationship a go.

Really enjoyed this mini series of Tim and Cade. Tim seems so shy and to finally have the support he needs to be able to live the lifestyle it must be amazing.

The blurb is rather short, but then again, so is this book, even if it's technically four books. Honestly, I love A.M. Innes' books, but I wish they were twice as long. This one runs at 38k words, which is about half of a normal sized novel. That means it’s technically a novella.<br /><br />His Little Man is the story of Tim, who has discovered he's really into age play—meaning he wants to play with diapers, binkies, and whatnot. His sexy neighbor Cade accidentally overhears, and turns out to be willing to help Tim with this. Tim gradually builds confidence and achieves his goals, one step at a time, with Cade’s help. <br /><br />If you can get over the somewhat unlikely premise of apartment walls being so thin you can literally hear your neighbor talk to himself, you’re in for a sweet, slightly kinky read. What keeps amazing me about this author, is that the books are all about a certain kink (other titles have been about puppy play for instance), yet are slow burn and sweet at the same time. These are definitely not erotic reads despite the topic, as the actual level of sexiness as I often refer to it is low. <br /><br />Instead, these books focus on the relationship, though that aspect was a little less developed in His Little Man than in Flawed Perfection, for instance. No wonder, since it’s hard to develop both the kink and the relationship in a novella. What missed for me was Cade’s character. We get to know Tim much better than Cade, who remains a bit two-dimensional. <br /><br />On the other side, Tim felt a bit cliché, even if his character was more developed. If you read multiple books by the same author in a row, you tend to notice similarities between characters more, and Tim was a mix of Nathan from Flawed Perfection and Bryan from His Missing Pieces. His insecurity, his reluctance to talk about it or connect with others in similar kinks, the shyness, it was all familiar. I’d love to read about a main character who is not insecure about the kink aspect and fully embraces it, actually.<br /><br />Still, the topic is fascinating and the writing fluid, drawing you in into the story. I encountered some small typos and grammatical errors, but nothing too distracting. <br />(For more honest review, check out <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://www.brutallyhonestreview.com">www.brutallyhonestreview.com</a>)<br />

Age-play is very interesting to me, in regards to whether I enjoy reading it or not. I have enjoyed every age-play book I've read so far, even though I don't understand it and certain aspects make me want to squint and squirm. This one is definitely only for people who know they like age-play.<br /><br />This series definitely revolves around the diaper side of age play which I didn't mind but it's not what I love about age-play. The good thing is when Tim is 'little' he is a 'little boy', not an infant.<br /><br />The relationship between these guys develops nicely and the sex is super hot. They have sexual play both when Tim is 'big' and 'little', which I don't usually like but it does work with these two.<br /><br />I'll keep reading kinky stuff from this author for sure!

<strong>Looking for more......</strong><br /><br />I was waiting for the other shoe to drop in books 3 &amp; 4. Not to give anything away but Tim was just a little bit to agreeable when Cade wanted to push to boundaries of their age play relationship. It was a little on the sweet and fluffy side of age play.<br /><br />This book opened my eyes to this part of the BDSM world and I would not mind reading this subgenre again. M.A. Innes presented this topic well. Looking forward to reading her other works.

The first time I read an age play romance, it was <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/40495520.Unexpected__Unconditional_Love__1_" title="Unexpected (Unconditional Love #1) by M.A. Innes" rel="noopener">Unexpected</a> by M. A. Innes, and I really enjoyed that story. So, when I learnt there was another book on the same premise by the same author, I jumped on it.<br /><br />I really like age play romance, it was a kink I would have never expected to like reading about but, it was so well done in <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/40495520.Unexpected__Unconditional_Love__1_" title="Unexpected (Unconditional Love #1) by M.A. Innes" rel="noopener">Unexpected</a> that I couldn't help loving the concept and the world. I feel like at this point I must warn you that this book is going to be mercilessly compared to <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/40495520.Unexpected__Unconditional_Love__1_" title="Unexpected (Unconditional Love #1) by M.A. Innes" rel="noopener">Unexpected</a>, just because they feature the same kink and are written by the same author.<br /><br />A definite departure from <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/40495520.Unexpected__Unconditional_Love__1_" title="Unexpected (Unconditional Love #1) by M.A. Innes" rel="noopener">Unexpected</a>, was that in this story both participants are exploring age play for the first time, which made scenes much tamer because the characters are still figuring out what they like but that might also make this book easier to read for someone exploring this kink for the first time.<br /><br />I personally really enjoyed reading about Cade and Tim, and I loved their meet-cute but since I was a little more exposed to the kink, I also wanted a whole lot more play scenes between the characters, but that might be me being greedy. I feel like this book does a wonderful job of simultaneously exploring the romance and the kink between these two characters which makes it a very balanced story and perfect for someone being introduced to the kink for the first time.<br /><br />I really liked Cade and Tim. Tim is very unassuming and shy but I like that Cade is able to draw him out, this was kind of a new dynamic for me because we have two characters who are equally enthusiastic but one of them is just very shy and Cade at times has to nudge him. For the most part, Tim seems to require being nudged but it just made me wonder where you would draw the line between pushing someone and forcing them. This is not something that is brought up in the story but there are various moments in it where Cade has to nudge Tim into doing something he wants and as the story goes, Tim usually enjoys where they end up when he is nudged into that particular direction but it made me wonder.<br /><br />Overall, I really enjoyed the story, the kink and the characters and I would recommend this book to anyone trying out an age play romance for the first time.