Title: Sugar Fighter
Series: Sugar Daddies: Book One
Author: Charity Parkerson
Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited
Length: 50 Pages
Category: Contemporary
At a Glance: These characters actually piqued my interest enough that I wish the story was longer. Charity Parkerson has set the stage with Sugar Fighter and, well, color me intrigued.
Reviewed By: Carrie
Blurb: Zeke is the older man. The richer man. The man who plans to give Korey the world.
As MMA’s Light Heavyweight champion, Zeke’s million-dollar matches and multi-million-dollar sponsorships have given him the freedom to do whatever he likes. It pleases him to spoil Korey. Before Zeke’s best friend Charlie was deployed two years ago, he made Zeke swear he’d care for his brother Korey if anything happened to him. When Charlie is killed by a roadside bomb, Zeke takes the young college student in, determined to give him everything he requires to succeed. He never expects to end up hoping he can keep Korey under more than his roof. He needs Korey beneath him.
If Korey had been in his right mind after Charlie’s death, he would’ve turned down Zeke’s offer. By the time he realizes his mistake, he’s already addicted to Zeke’s powerful presence. He never meant to end up dependent on the man’s smiles and hot glances. The money, Korey could live without. The man has him hooked. There’s only one problem—neither man wants to cross the line from friends to lovers, ruining what they have.
Review: This story is billed as an introduction and as such it is rather short, not even novella length, but it really manages to convey the feeling and ambiance of a new series by Parkerson. I love May/December romances, and that is what this new series is all about—older men and their boys. Even in fifty-or-so pages, Parkerson manages to convey the gritty feeling of her new series. She also manages to set us up for book two, which is Sugar Boss. I would definitely read this introduction before that book, as the characters are introduced here. Just an FYI, all these books are on the shorter side, with book two barely topping 120 pages. Unfortunately, there isn’t a great deal of character development, but there is some quality backstory for the characters, enough to connect with Zeke and Korey and be able to enjoy their story. Don’t look for Daddy/little boy kink, though; Zeke is Korey’s sugar daddy, which is not the same thing.
Zeke is an MMA fighter; he’s at the top of his class and works hard to maintain his title, especially since he’s not as young as he used to be. When his best friend died several years earlier, he promised to take care of his friend’s little brother and since that time, Korey has lived with him. Zeke has wanted Korey for years but has had to wait for him to grow up. Zeke is afraid that if Korey really knows how he feels that he will lose the only connection he has to him. But Zeke has a plan to tie Korey to him by paying for his medical school; he’ll be his sugar daddy, if he can’t have anything else.
Korey has matured in the years he’s lived with Zeke. In college now, Korey has gone from a puppy love crush to full on lust for the man who runs his life. In medical school, Korey needs Zeke to see him as the man he has become, not just the little boy he used to be. Yes, he still loves to sit on Zeke’s lap, but that doesn’t make him juvenile, just in love with the older man.
There’s a good episode of angst, which leads to our two guys having a HFN with the promise of forever. These characters actually piqued my interest enough that I wish the story was longer. I think in a more developed story, some of the quirks and things which didn’t work here could have been resolved into a more satisfactory storyline. I recommend it as an intro to a series, and it did lead me to read book two, which is what it was designed for. Charity Parkerson has set the stage with Sugar Fighter and, well, color me intrigued.
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