Loving Liam by Alex J Adams

My review

5 stars 🍩

Liam is a boy who was hurt in the worse way possible from his Daddy (yes this is a daddy boy kink story with impact play) making it hard for him to be able to move on and trust again. John was one of the police officers that saved his life, yet let him slop through the cracks once the case was solved. Both men need eafh others to have a real life and love balance, for John, to not realize he is not only his job, and for liam to realize he's not forgettable.

We are five years later, and time hasn't been kind to either making this that perfect moment for a chance. Both characters make mistakes, and that's what makes this grittier romance real. These are real men with real pasts who are just trying to survive in this not so great world.

Alex dove into the world on daddy/boy kink with impact play and handled it in a way that if you are new to the scene you can understand the choices and confusion on what may be viewed as right and wrong from someone new to it. The choices were handled delicately, and in a manner, a novice may understand these wants. Great job, and I'm also happy to see Liam get his long-awaited hea.

This can be read as a standalone, but I would highly recommend reading SAVING ZIGGY prior to seeing the whole scope of these men's past and how much it shaped them to be as they are.

Book overview

Five years. That’s how long it had been since my life as I knew it had ended.

Others that had suffered a similar fate, had fallen on their feet. They had the perfect life and the perfect partner, but I wasn’t bitter. No, not me.

Who was I trying to kid? I was as bitter as hell.

Because while their life was perfect, mine had fallen apart. Holding down a job was nigh on impossible. I’d been in and out of rehab so many times, I didn’t even have to tell them my name.

I used to be someone’s little, now I was just a nobody, a nobody that belonged nowhere. Or that’s how it felt.

How hard could it be to forget my past? Damned hard, that was obvious.

The real problem? I wasn’t sure I had it in me to care anymore about me or anyone else, but when Detective John Palmer turns up, offering to help, I wonder if he’s what I’ve been waiting for.

Time is short. Hours, minutes and seconds are running through my fingers like sand in an hourglass.

Can he stem the flow? Can he be the one to give me what I need, what I desperately crave? Only time will tell.

But when my past catches up with me, I’ll need him more than I ever thought possible.

Loving Liam is the third book in the Liverpool Boys series. It can be read as a standalone but it may be advantageous to read Saving Ziggy first.

TW for drug use

Loving Liam (Liverpool Boys Series Book 3) https://a.co/d/dcKTegZ