REVIEW: Ahoy Daddy! - Part of Pride Cruise 2024 Anthology-TL Travis

Title: Ahoy Daddy!
Series: Part of Pride Cruise 2024 Anthology
Author: TL Travis
Genre: LGBTQ, Families, Travel
Publisher: Sapphire Publishing
Release Date: June 14, 2024
Format: Kindle
Pages: 264
Source: Amazon

Get a job on a cruise ship, she said. It’s perfect for you.

Highly unlikely considering nothing ever has been…

Vale: I’ve been hyper all my life and the only one who cares to deal with me is my mother. I’ve put the poor woman through hell and the best way for her to get a long break from me is to take a job that includes travel.

What I don’t expect is finding a much-needed outlet for my endless energy. Pet Play! Where have you been all my life?

Jack: Lonely. Confused. Tired of listening to myself complain. My hands are in more pots than I can keep track of. I need a break. Thankfully, the managers I have in place take care of everything.

Now I can take a cruise and relax. Maybe I'll look for a boy to have some fun with and get to play daddy. I haven't had much luck with that lifestyle. I want something long term. Is that too much to ask?

Boy after boy has passed through my life, but none stick. Am I too much for them? Too controlling? Not controlling enough? No one has the answer. Not my therapist, not my last boy, and certainly not me.

Ahoy Daddy! is an MM, Pet Play, a boy who figures out he’s a silly monkey, sweet Daddy tale of two lost souls whose paths cross in the most unsuspecting of places.

Welcome to Pride Cruise 2024!

Where the water is crisp, the men are HOT, and the party has started! Each book is a standalone but feel free and dive in and binge them all. You won't want to miss a second of their naughty antics. If you think they're silly when the sun is up, just wait until it goes down.

Reviewed by Linda Tonis

Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team

This book is part of Pride Cruise 2024, and it was wonderful. A story of finding love on a cruise ship when it was the last thing you ever expected.

Vale was diagnosed as a child as hyperactive and now as an adult he has been labeled with ADHD. Unable to hold down a job, unable to hold on to a boyfriend he is now working as a cabin boy on a cruise ship, a job he got through his best friend Darcy. It is a sixteen-day cruise to Hawaiian Islands. This is a kink cruise with a littles room, dungeon and pet play area.

Vale had a set number of rooms he oversaw and one of those rooms would be occupied by a man that would change his life forever. His first day he bumped into that man when he suddenly left the room almost making Vale fall. It was that man, Jack who kept him from hitting the floor.

Jack is on vacation but is not really enjoying himself, he has had boys in his life and his preference is pet play, but it has been a long time since he has had one and after seeing Vale, he suddenly feels like he found one. All the problems resulting from his ADHD have left him alone and convinced him that he will always be alone. The only people in his life who accept him as he is and love him despite everything are his mother and Darcy.

When Jack begins showing attention to Vale, he finds himself confused but is sure that the attention will disappear when they are finally on land. Jack tries to spend as much time as he can with Vale working out lunch when Vale is supposed to be cleaning his room. The more time they spend together the more Jack wants he knows he has found his one.

Jack not only takes Vale’s problems seriously he does everything he can to direct his energy in new directions. When Jack brings up pet play Vale is excited, he thinks it is just a room full of cats, dogs and any other pet, big mistake. When he realizes what it really is he wants to visit, Jack is more than happy to go with him after his work is finished and in a monkey costume Vale was able to throw together so no one would recognize him.

Vale found what makes him happy and enables him to sleep more than four or five hours a night. The more time Vale and Jack spend together the more Vale sees a man he knows will protect him, something he never had before. Jack buys him gifts, worries about him as well as Darcy which just earns him more points in the plus column.

This was a beautiful story proving that there is someone out there no matter what problems you face such as Vale. The problem is what will happen when Vale’s four-month contract ends, and Jack spends more direct time with him I won’t tell.