Rating: 4.5 Stars

Publisher: Punk & Sissy Publications

Genre: Gay Romance

Tags: Contemporary, Daddy Kink, Emotional, Romance, Series

TW: Off Page Domestic Abuse and Suicide. On Page Drug Use.

Length: 112 Pages

Reviewer: Cindi

Purchase At: Amazon

Blurb –

Everyone thinks Banks is the carefree one. He’s totally insane. That’s exactly what Kyson needs.

Everyone fears Banks’ older brother, Boone. As the youngest son of a crime boss, Banks tends to fly under the radar. No one sees him as anything other than a junkie. The truth is so much worse. Banks is the one who makes the family’s problems disappear. His temper is terrifying. His conscience is nonexistent. The only thing that scares Banks is himself. Kyson is the only person who sees him to his core and wants him anyway.

After surviving unfathomable abuse from a man who claimed to love him, Kyson doesn’t feel safe anywhere, except with Banks. He knows Banks is deadly. Kyson has seen him in action. That’s exactly why he hopes Banks will choose to be his daddy. Kyson needs the protection, and the peace Banks’ rage gives him.

Deadly Daddy is the third book in Charity Parkerson’s Little Lost series where adorable, sometimes bratty, and scared Littles meet the men of their dreams.

Review –

A huge part of the building was a home. Inside lived Kyson’s hero – the owner of The PlayPen: Banks Bosi.

Kyson is a ‘little’ who spends a lot of time at Banks’ fetish club, The PlayPen. Kyson has a daddy, but it’s obvious to everybody that their relationship isn’t exactly normal. In the last book, there was some hard spanking, and not the good kind. The so-called daddy didn’t even try to hide it.

Banks has had his eye on Kyson for a while. Kyson spends his time at the club playing with Luca from Short-term Daddy (#1), Jupiter from In Daddy’s Hands (#2), and Soren, his best friend, from the next book, In Daddy’s Care (#4). They’re all having a little tea party when Kyson lifts his head a little and Banks loses it. Kyson has bruises on his neck from obvious choking, yellowing bruising other places, and even black eyes that’s he tried to cover up. When I say Banks loses it, I mean he really loses it on the ‘daddy’ who dared put his hands on Kyson. Boone, Banks’ brother, has to pull him off the guy before he kills him.

For the next six months Kyson lives with Banks as he recovers both physically and emotionally. There’s nothing more than friendship because Kyson’s simply not ready. Not to mention that Banks isn’t the type of guy somebody would want long-term. He’s the son of an arms dealer, and he has a lot of blood on his hands. Banks is also an addict – laced cigars, alcohol, pills, you name it.

After Banks passes out after a night of drinking – something he does often – things change from friendship to a little more for him and Kyson. Kyson is warned away by Banks’ friend and bodyguard, but the heart wants what the heart wants, I suppose.

“You can’t kill everyone who makes me feel bad.”

Banks glanced over, looking deadly. “I can and I will.”

They start sleeping in the same bed, playing around a little, and getting closer by the day. It was really sweet watching them work toward something special. You can’t not like both men, and Banks was doing everything in his power to stay sober.

Now to Beau, Banks’ and Boone’s bastard jerk father, Tabitha, their mother, and Beau’s whore (not my word), Adan. In the last book, I wasn’t a fan of Tabitha, who is also an addict. She was on page quite a bit more in this one, to the point that I actually felt sorry for her. She and Kyson were close, which I found to be sweet.

As for Beau, well, calling him a jerk is an insult to all other jerks in the world. I’ve mentioned in my reviews of the other books in the series that I read Beau’s book first, and I loved it. Had I known the real story behind Beau, and what he’d done to his wife and sons, I wouldn’t have read it. There’s being mean, and then there’s being cruel, and I’m not just referring to Adan living in the same home as Beau’s wife. No, not just living in the same home, but flaunting the relationship in front of her and everybody else. Boone’s secrets came out with regard to Beau and Adan in Boone’s book, and that would have been it for me when it came to Beau. It should have been it for Boone, Banks, and Tabitha, but as Tabitha tells Kyson, there’s only one way out when it comes to Beau, and you can guess what that is.

A lot of the why with Beau is explained in his own book, but it still didn’t justify any of it. He had all this power, and instead of using it to fix his family, he dug the hole deeper.

There’s more to this story than Banks and Kyson. At one point, it’s really sad. My heart hurt for everybody except Beau and Adan. As my sons used to say when they were younger, they could kick rocks.

At one point sweet Kyson has enough and punches Adan while they’re at the club. He earned that punch by insulting Kyson’s best friend, Soren. Messing with Beau’s man would be a death sentence for anybody else.

Adan narrowed his eyes at Soren. “I don’t need a fat Little, who no one wants, to pity play with me.”

Another time Banks has to be pulled back from beating his father to death. Trust me when I say that he would’ve deserved everything he got, even if it meant Banks finishing what he started, and not being pulled off. Harsh, sure, but Beau was a disgusting human being who didn’t deserve to even share air with his sons.

It wasn’t all violence and sadness. There was a slumber party, including truth or dare and snacks, which was downright cute.

My favorite part of the book is one line: “I chose you.”

The context of that is everything.

Really good, emotional book. Because of the length of the books in the series, everything happens pretty fast, but at no point have I felt like I was missing anything. The author tells the stories perfectly without unnecessary details. I love that.

These are Daddy/little books, but that’s a relatively small part of the story, and it’s not at all like the other Daddy/little books I’ve read. Beau is described as a major crime boss, Boone is a killer, and Banks as an insane, violent addict. Those aren’t my words. There’s not much about what Beau does, only that everybody is terrified of him, and they do what he says. There’s no killing on page, and I never saw Banks as anything other than a man who drank and took drugs to pull himself away from the real world that his father had forced him and Boone into. I had a lot of sympathy for the brothers and even their mother. I had zero for Beau. I’m curious about how my opinion will change of Beau’s book when/if I read it again. I’m seriously regretting reading it before the others, and publishing my review. I wish I would’ve held off.

Adan and Axton’s book, Dangerous Daddy (#5) is a couple of books from now. I will go ahead and say it… I don’t want to read it. There is no coming back from how Adan has acted from the first time he was introduced in the series, just as there wouldn’t have been for Beau had I not read the books out of order. I don’t have an opinion of Axton yet.

I really loved Banks and Kyson together.

“I swear I’d never fail you the way my family failed me. The way we’ve failed each other.”

4.5 stars.