Snowbound Princess

by Adaline Raine

I wrote a letter to Santa Claus asking for a Christmas miracle. I didn't expect my brother's best friend.I was not feeling any holiday cheer, forced to move back to my childhood home. When a blizzard dumps my longtime crush Sebastian Cruise on my doorstep I am reeling from his offer. He wants to spoil me like a princess until the snow melts and for a long time after if I'll agree. Can I trust him with my heart and embark into the relationship of my dreams or will I give him the cold shoulder? This story was originally published in the anthology A Daddy for Christmas Anthology but has been expanded and re-edited.

Genres: Romance, Ebooks, Contemporary, Christmas, Novella, Fiction, Contemporary Romance

74 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 21, 2020

Reviews

[Paige · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 stars.

Not for me. A lot of “caretaking/coloring/bows” type DDLG, which I don’t particularly like. Not nearly as much sex as I wanted, and what there was didn’t feel particularly hot to me.

[Aimee · Rating 2 out of 5]

I knew this was a short story heading into it buy it felt totally incomplete. And the FMC was annoying and her "inner thoughts" didn't make much sense. Would nor read again. The spice was okay.

[Natasha (grad school is kicking my butt—sadly on a reading hiatus) · Rating 1 out of 5]

Absolutely not

[Ana · Rating 1 out of 5]

This wasn’t tagged as a daddy / little story at all on the stuff your kindle website and it’s very very hard to spot in the blurb.

Not kink shaming but this makes me uncomfortable and I’m very disappointed that I had it sprung on me

[Kait · Rating 2 out of 5]

Yikes.

[Ashley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yeeee… Did not like this one.

[Mia Oliv.W · Rating 1 out of 5]

One of the worst pieces of writing I’ve ever read. Worse than a wattpad fan fiction.

[Alexis · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was not good. The writing was choppy and the dialogue awkward. The spice was meh. There was no plot and no conclusion. We don’t even find out what Kay is going to do for her career which was the main premise of the story. Just not good.

[Michelle Boyer · Rating 1 out of 5]

Stuff Your Kindle strikes again, this time with a one-star quick read.

The writing is so, so bad! It starts off with a young woman (Kay) wishing she could have a 'Daddy' for Christmas. Enter her brother's best friend (Bastian), who magically shows up in a snow storm to stay at their house (and the rest of the family is out other places so it is perfect). But what began to annoy me was this woman is crying all the time -- crying kind of like she needs to see a shrink, not enter a new relationship.

Is there a plot? No, not one that makes sense. So forget that right out the window and try to just figure out the sex scenes... which are less than stellar. A little bit of spanking. Some sex.

The entire premise is this Daddy/little girl thing that never gets fully developed. Now, I'm going to say "not my kink" but I didn't realize that was the premise when I stuffed this in my Kindle. Since I had it, I was like, just keep reading. But that kink isn't ever really developed here. It was like someone that knows nothing about the kink decided to write about it and came up with this.

Skip it. With the poor writing, lack of plot, and no real storyline that makes any sense at all, it was just kind of a waste of time.

[Emily Barry · Rating 2 out of 5]

I knew nothing about this short Christmas novella so I had no expectations. I believe it was a stuff your kindle day dowload.

After some intimate photos are leaked all over the internet Kayleigh has to move back into her childhood home to make ends meet. All she wants is a Daddy to take care of her. After writing a letter to Santa she discovers her wish has come true. Her crush and brother's best friend Sebastian decides to stay at Kayleigh's parent's house when a snow storm strands him. Will Sebastian be the Daddy she's always wanted?

This book was alright i guess. It felt way too short and rushed but I guess that's to be expected for only 74 pages. The author should have put another 50 pages minimum into it and really fleshed everything out better. It was only chapter 1 and Kayleigh was already calling Sebastian Daddy and telling him I love you when we hadn't really established they had a history of crushing on each other or anything like that so it felt like it made no sense for her to fall for him so fast. The smut wasn't the best I've read but, it was there so there's that. It was kinda boring if I'm honest. The dialogue isnt the greatest and theres no real conclusion to the story. It just feels unfinished. Overall I'd probably say pass on this one.

[Stephanie · Rating 1 out of 5]

SYK Day strikes again.

I had some small amount of hope for this one. I don't know why, I'm generally not that optimistic, especially when the first two I read from the SYK Day pile were both horrendous. But still, I tried to go into this one hopeful. And yet, here I sit, still very, very disappointed.

Look, it's a romance, tentatively trying to maybe kinda sorta be an erotica (but not really cause what smut there is is far too tasteful for that). But that entire genre is at the mercy of the suspension of disbelief for how quickly relationships can develop. Anyone who reads that genre frequently knows that, we accept it, it's fine. But there's kinda a point where you're not even relying on suspension of disbelief anymore when you're portraying the relationship developing, you're just being downright unreasonable. And this saw that point, glanced at it once, and then barreled on past at full speed.

The girl is... how do I put this kindly... immature as all hell? It has absolutely nothing to do with the "little" aspect of things, and everything to do with the fact there is no way a grown adult woman thinks like this. Unless this girl was actually meant to be 18 or 19, which I'm fairly certain she was not (and I'm genuinely not about to subject myself to a reread to double check that), this just isn't how any adult with a functioning brain would process the world around them. Her kinks have zero relevance to that. At absolute best, if you want to justify just how immature her thought process is for the vast majority of the time, then this girl treads a very weird line between having a DD/lg kink, and just outright age regressing - which for anyone who knows the difference, that is really concerning.

The guy started off with a few promising moments, but that devolved just as quickly in the long run. And this is where we start getting into spoiler territory because there's just no better way to describe the terrible display this was on both sides.

So, first off: he shows up at her house in the middle of a snowstorm at night, a) not expecting to be going there at all, b) not knowing she was there alone before a few minutes ahead of that, and c) not having the faintest of clues what she was into; yet somehow, he walks in, sees she wrote a "letter to santa" (more on that in a second) and he magically has the perfect gift for her with him by chance? And I don't mean the part of the gift where he just starts explicitly trying to play Daddy for her, but the part where he just happens to have childish girly hair bows on hand, and I'm fairly certain there were other "gifts" involved - I remember it being described as several new things mysteriously appearing under her tree in the morning - but the bows were the one they drew attention to more than once so that's the only specific one I can remember.

Now... the "letter to santa" thing. When I say this girl is immature, this is partially one of my examples, because while yeah, people can do weird things when they're alone, and kinky people sometimes go hard on their kinks even if they don't have someone to engage in it with. But like... Writing a letter to santa, then leaving it out in the open, that still feels like an odd choice. And I'd be happy to just overlook it, except a) it's what kicked off the whole actual story, and b) the entire chain of events from that point is so beyond absurd, that no sane human in their right mind would act like this.

She writes the letter and leaves it out while alone in the house. As far as she is aware, she will be the only person in the house for the immediate future. Like days, easily, since her entire family is out of state. So sure, no one should see it, fine, whatever. Except she then wakes up the next morning and finds a reply written on the note, unfamiliar presents under the tree, and breakfast that certainly wasn't there before waiting in the kitchen. What sane, rational, adult woman makes their first course of action upon seeing those things to just start opening the presents? She's goes through it in her head far enough to convince herself it's not her brother messing with her (which one would like to think you'd be more aware if your entire family suddenly came home from multiple states away), but that's as far as it goes. She doesn't go search the house to figure out who is there. She doesn't CALL THE POLICE because clearly, as far as she could reasonably tell, SOMEONE BROKE IN. Or even make the sensible choice to call her family and ask if anyone else who had a key was coming by. There was ZERO self preservation and just immediate acceptance of something that should be extremely concerning.

Then proceeds the next 50-ish pages of her constantly waffling back and forth between how she either doesn't want anything to do with him, but also loves him, or how she wants to do things with him, but she also doesn't, or how she wants to have sex with him, but not, and on, and on, and bloody on that went.

And somewhere in there, this guy, who was apparently the prosecuting lawyer for a personal injury suit she was involved in, where someone leaked a couple "private photos" of hers that apparently were a little kinky in nature, decides that this girl, who is full of angst and insecurity over being violated like that, should definitely be convinced to now be a kink model...

I just... there are no words for this, at this point, apart from the fact I nearly threw my kindle in disgust. I was barely tolerating the story at that point, and that was just the final nail in that particular coffin.

I've read better, and more kink-accurate things on Ao3, and at this point I'm starting to develop a complex around anything available via SYK Day, cause I have yet to pick up anything actually worth the read that way.

[Morgan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Right off the bat, you should know there are some DD/LG elements. Idk how I missed that (I blame the lack of warning on the stuff your kindle day site) but as it's not really my thing I wanted to make it clear for anyone else who is looking to steer clear of that dynamic. That's not why I'm giving it a low rating though. The plot was pretty thin and at times seemed out of order and/or pretty implausible. There were abrupt tonal and attitude shifts from the FMC that just took me right out of the story and the dialogue felt wooden. Beyond that the spice level was mild and the sex was written like an afterthought. Go ahead and skip this one.

[Katiie · Rating 4 out of 5]

DD/LG and a quick read!

Pure perfection to wrap up ur ending goal with this quick steamy read.

I do wish they had gone more in depth with the T 0 y $ but it was a short story so not expecting to much.

I feel like this would be a great full length novel to get more of their relationship and see where everything leads.

I did not enjoy how she was automatically just being a brat before they fully talked when he kept telling her they needed to.

Overall I enjoyed this read and it helped wrap up my goal 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[Diana M. Caruthers · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay, I would say this book isn’t for everyone but the story is engaging ( if you can skip over the daddy part like I did). The characters are relatable. The writer has talent even if it isn’t my type of love story. I would read her works again if she had none daddy fetish books. It was definitely one of the better finds so far from Stuff Your Kindle day as many of them have been tough to read. The book was actually edited and the story flows.

[Carla · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 stars (rounded up)

Pretty dull when it comes to erotica.

This was not labelled as "Daddy Dom/little girl" anywhere, which can be a very uncomfortable kink for a lot of people.
The characters were somewhat realistic, but the storytelling fell a little flat and felt incomplete, and the spicy scenes were a little unsatisfactory.

Would not read again.

[Renee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really good overall

If you like DdLg books, this is cute. I really feel the girl needs him to help get her mind in the right place. She's very self-conscious to the extreme and needs him to show her she's wrong about herself perception. I kind of wish we could have seen more of what's to come between them.

[Elaine Swinney · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would give this one a 3.5. It is a nice short story with nice characters. The only problem I saw was the ending left me hanging. This is the first book I have read by this author, but I will be looking for other books. I am willing to give her a chance.

[Polly Barreto · Rating 2 out of 5]

I got about half way through this book and decided I just could not finish it.
There is really nothing wrong with the story in what I did read – its just the whole “Daddy” thing just is not my thing. Never has been and probably never will be, but if it is for you – awesome!

[KayCee · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was horrible. An overgrown woman-child is in love with her brother's best friend and acts like a spoiled child to get her way. I couldn't stand her character and the male characters interactions with her make him sound like a pedophile.

[Dolores Olivarez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not at all what I am used to reading. It was a little uncomfortable for me.

[*✧*Paula*✧* · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF @ 79%

[Sassafrack · Rating 2 out of 5]

not really my thing.

I pushed through to finish this one. Daddy isn’t really my thing, and I got a little bored. To each there own I suppose.

[Bethany Fletcher · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don’t normally appreciate the kink involved, but as it was fairly mild I had no issues
I got this book on stuff your kindle day and it did not disappoint! Really easy read for a day

[Thereadersteacup · Rating 1 out of 5]

DNF at 10% just.... no

[Cheyenne Brewer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book perfect little quick read probably would have finished it all in one sitting if I had the time! Definitely a reread for me and wish it was longer!

[Caysey Gilbert · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wtf did I just read... 🤢

[Sara Ostrowski · Rating 2 out of 5]

What a weird little novella. Spice was there. Brother’s best friend and little sister situation. He really respected her boundaries.

[Lori Laidlaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like the MFC, Kayleigh, and enjoyed this sexy and romantic Christmas story.

[Amber Geeeeee · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bruh what even was this?

[liz 🪄 · Rating 1 out of 5]

horribly written, zero followable plot, and the smut isn't even interesting enough to make up for that fact