This seemed to lose itself as the story progressed.ĭO18 is also packed full of angst, which is not always a bad thing. The first part of the story definitely captivated me more than the second half, if only for the reason that there was something between Violet and Graham that left me wanting more. Edwards, so I wasn’t really invested in their romance. Which is the crux of my rating, there was nothing of substance that I held onto. I had more issues with the amount of cringey one-liners and cliche “he’s just such a man” statements that I got bored.

I actually think Kent handled this aspect pretty well. At least, that’s what I call you in my head.”Īge-gap romances can really go one of two ways. I’m gonna like your teeth and your tongue and I’m gonna fall in love with the sting of it all. You can eat me up a hundred different ways. (Does that even make sense, Alex?) I only wish that there was something more unique to this book, rather than just “this happened, then that happened, then we lived happily ever after.” I wanted to be more invested with the story itself and the characters. There’s something to be said though, about the tension that this book derives because I definitely wanted to keep reading, even though I wasn’t necessarily adoring what I was reading. It was like someone randomly yelled at the author to be “more deep” in the middle of random scenes. The writing was watered down and the random bursts of purple prose would give me a sense of whiplash. I started feeling this from the second chapter. I guess my main issue with DO18 is the fact that I had so much hope for it! This author can do a lot of things with smut and often her books will call for the holiest holy water, but I was so stuck on the issues within this book that I couldn’t even enjoy that.Įverything felt way too rushed and underdeveloped.

Right so, I guess I can say with some certainty that Kent’s books and I have a love-hate relationship. Saffron Kent has written one of my all time favourite romances, Medicine Man and I always do a little dance whenever she comes out with new material.

This story had so much potential and I honestly could not have been more excited. *sigh* I guess I needed time to absorb this story as well as the level of disappointment I felt while reading DO18. “You know what happens when a thirty-four-year-old man watches a sixteen-year-old girl?”

Saffron a kent dreams of 18