There’s no question that it’s well-written… but it was painful to read at times. In typical Matthew Metzger style, the book is full of funny banter, emotional moments, and deeply human characters. People aren’t always what they look like. They kind of just… ignore it and hope it’ll go away. On the other hand, Eli’s parents, despite both being involved with police, having prestigious titles, being well-educated, and making good money, are the ones who struggle with Eli’s gender. Rob and his family, despite criminal backgrounds and drug dealing and low income and an inability to spell or go five seconds without swearing, don’t bat an eye about Eli being trans. Not the conflict between them, that was awful and gave me anxiety, but the contrast between how the upstanding citizens in Eli’s family, and those with questionable morals in Rob’s family, reacted to Eli. The second thing I loved was the contrast between Eli’s family and Rob’s family. It’s not one of those clear-cut Dom/sub relationships you get in most kinky books, and I loved that. This kink is unique in the grand scheme of kinky books because Eli, the physically smaller, younger, transgender man is the power-tripping dominant, and Rob, the aggressive, foul-mouthed, tattooed cis man, endures bondage and punishment at Eli’s hand. Holy shit.īut there are two things I really loved about this book: First, the kink. He still lives with his parents, they didn’t throw him out, they don’t deadname him or misgender him, but God his dad is intolerable.
In this case, the shittiness wasn’t even outright due to Eli being trans. He’s “overprotective” to the point of being abusive, doesn’t listen to a word his son is saying to him, refuses to communicate… I hated him so much that I actually put the book aside after about 25% and didn’t want to pick it back up.
He’s Chief Inspector with the police, and seriously disapproves of Eli’s tattooed-up ex-con boyfriend, Rob. The primary conflict in the book comes from Eli’s father.
On the other hand, it took me like three months to actually finish it.
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