Note to self: Stop trying to read M.A. Innes. This author is not for you.
I have lost track of how many times I’ve started and DNF-ed one of this author’s books. Mostly I don’t even catalog them because I barely get a couple chapters in. I get why a lot of people are into these books, but I just cannot.
They are so cringe for me. And before you get up in arms about me kink-shaming, it’s not the kink that makes me wince and roll my eyes and want to find some way to edit a novel post-publication. It’s the blushing. And the giggling. And the grown-ass adults acting like they’re freaking five years old, while everyone around them just thinks they’re so darn cute.
And I’m not talking about when a Little is in his Little headspace! That would be understandable. But every sub in these books is apparently incapable of mature adult interactions without either blushing, giggling, or flirting in the most unfunny way possible, which inevitably makes every character in the vicinity throw back their heads in uproarious laughter.
I enjoy the kinks depicted in these books, but it gets real weird for me when I start doubting the characters have an adult-level intelligence and competence in every single scene, whether they are engaging in age-play or not.