Release Day Review: Daddy’s Christmas Elf by Ali Ryecart

03 November of 2022 by ButtonsMom2003

Daddy’s Christmas Elf By Ali Ryecart

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Tropes: Hurt/comfort, age-gap, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, daddy kink lite

Released: November 3, 2002

Publisher: Self-Published

Length: 196 pages

Synopsis

Take One Elf, Add an Older Man with Daddy Tendencies, and Mix for the Perfect Christmas Romance

Dressing up as a sexy little elf for a themed Christmas party isn’t Eli Turner’s idea of a glittering career. It’s the rowdiest event Eli’s worked all season and when a drunken proposition goes too far, his refusal to play sets off a chain of events leaving him high and dry with only the cheap elf suit on his back.

The Christmas party wealthy banker Grey Gillespie doesn’t want to be at is sliding out of control. When trouble erupts Grey rushes to intervene, but not before the cute young guy dressed as an elf flees and disappears into the freezing cold night.

The last thing Grey expects as he makes his way home is to stumble across the little elf. Eli’s dire predicament awakens every one of Grey’s deep-seated needs: to comfort, to protect, to cherish and keep safe. Grey knows exactly what Eli yearns for — his little elf just needs some gentle persuasion to understand that everything he never knew he craved is everything Grey desperately wants to give him.

Daddy’s Christmas Elf is a sweet with heat Daddy-lite Christmas love story, oozing all the festive feels and fuzzies. Hurt/comfort, forced proximity, age gap, and two men drawn together to give the other exactly what he needs.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

A very sweet Christmas story.

I love Ali Ryecart’s Christmas stories. (If you haven’t read any of them you don’t know what you’re missing.) Daddy’s Christmas Elf is a very sweet story with limited sexy time but that is fine with me; the story is what is most important and this one is great.

Eli hasn’t had an easy time of it lately and getting fired from his job as a Christmas Elf is just the icing on the cake. Grey feels responsible for Eli since it was one of his employees that caused Eli to get fired.

Oh boy, Grey is such a kind and caring person and I loved him. All he wants is someone to care for. Enter Eli, someone who wants nothing more than to be cared for. He and Grey seem to mesh perfectly but then Grey gets a visitor right before Christmas and it really shakes Eli up.

This is a nice and easy story to read with very low angst and lots of feels and Christmassy things. Ali Ryecart writes a wide variety of MM romance and I love them all.