Title: Mr. Naughty List
Series: Home for the Holidays: Book Two
Author: Leta Blake
Publisher: Amazon/Kindle Unlimited
Length: 292 Pages
Category: Holiday Romance
At a Glance: Mr. Naughty List is an unapologetic celebration of love and sex, dominance and submission, and a tale of personal evolution all wrapped up in a holiday setting. It’s as naughty as the title suggests, playful and sincere, while also addressing and exploring weightier subjects such as trust and emotional intimacy and being true to oneself.
Reviewed By: Lisa
Blurb: A cute teacher gets a spanking this Christmas. How hot can it get being on his former student’s Naughty List?
Is Aaron allowed to want a hot holiday fling with his young former student? Even more forbidden, is he allowed to want this student to spank him?
It’s another Christmas, and Aaron is still in the closet as a gay man and a natural submissive. With one youthful indiscretion blacking his ethics record, he can’t afford to indulge his desires no matter how pent up and needy that leaves him.
Until his former student comes home for the holidays.
Dominant and charming, RJ knows what Aaron needs—intense, steamy encounters and a firm hand. As Christmas nears, RJ helps Aaron unlock his true self. But family and fallout await, and all good things must end.
Or can their hot holiday affair turn them into lasting lovers?
Review: RJ Blitz and Aaron Danvers’ relationship might be deemed a Christmas miracle in some romance genre circles. Sweet, sexy, and at times solemn, their story is rife with internal and external issues that promised to make their connection fraught with conflict. It’s rather a foregone conclusion, however, that the way they complement and complete each other physically would eventually bleed over into how they would come to support each other emotionally. In that, Leta Blake does not falter in her commitment to deliver readers a heartfelt love story.
For readers who are fans of the primary tropes in Mr. Naughty List—the younger Dom/older sub dynamic as well as the teacher/former student connection (mired in its own issues)—Blake explores each of those in this erotic holiday offering. Aaron already has a professional strike against him, which has led to him teaching at a new school, and which is grossly problematic considering his relationship to the principal of Pineview Middle School, who makes no secret of how she feels about Aaron being gay, and demands he remain firmly in the closet. When he takes RJ back to his place for what was supposed to be a clandestine one-night stand, the rewards to Aaron, which outweigh the risks he takes to continue seeing RJ, soon become evident. Namely, that while he understands the professional gamble of being in a relationship with a former student, the reward is that no one has ever made Aaron fly the way RJ does. And it is temporary, after all, just a quick holiday thing, because the new year will see RJ back on the road and out of Aaron’s life for good.
Sure. Sure it will. (hint: it does not)
RJ’s and Aaron’s histories figure prominently into the story. Neither trusts in the idea of a relationship let alone the concept of falling—and staying—in love, because neither grew up seeing that modeled by their own parents, which draws a fair portion of family drama into the story. It’s not all fraught, however. Aaron’s dad and extended family are fantastic, nor are RJ’s mom and stepdad slouches in the supportive parent department, especially during a revelation centering on RJ’s stepbrother, Carter. As Aaron and RJ become more entangled in each other’s lives, in some unexpected and problematic ways, it rounds the story out as not only a romance but a portrait of Aaron taking control and ownership over his own life, which was utterly imperative and the ultimate empowerment move.
Mr. Naughty List is an unapologetic celebration of love and sex, dominance and submission, and a tale of personal evolution all wrapped up in a holiday setting. It’s as naughty as the title suggests, playful and sincere, while also addressing and exploring weightier subjects such as trust and emotional intimacy and being true to oneself.
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I really enjoyed this one too! <3