
Taming Dante
Dante's Infernal, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Iggy Toma
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Cooper North
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By:
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Joel Abernathy
About this listen
Keeping up the rock star image ain’t easy, but someone’s gotta show these fakers how it’s done.
Hotel-room-trashing tantrums? Check. Daddy issues galore? Check. Glitz, glamour and general debauchery? I wrote the f**king book.
I’m a textbook bad boy rockstar cliche, and I’ve never claimed to be anything else. Hell, I own it. At least, I did, until he came along: Mr. Self-Righteous who acts more like a priest than a drummer. Now he’s my bodyguard and the guy in charge of making sure I don’t OD before the tour ends.
Oh, right. I also have a crazy stalker who’s been obsessed with me since I was a kid. So that’s fun.
It doesn’t take long to figure out Cash is more of a danger than any freak with a shrine of me in his closet, and he’s way harder to shake. He’s managed to convince our band manager (AKA, the crappiest father ever) that he’s the only one who can protect me from my stalker and my own vices. Cash thinks I’m stuck with him while he forces me to get clean, but what starts out as a daddy/boy role play meant to freak him out turns into so much more than a game. For the first time ever, I don’t know who’s going to win, but I’m not going down without a fight.
My new job is a nightmare.
The name of that nightmare? Dante Jung, lead singer of the world-famous band Dante’s Infernal, living train wreck, and all-around brat. His manager hired me to be the new drummer for Dante’s Infernal... and his undercover bodyguard, since the singer has run everyone else off. The only problem is, I’m pretty sure Dante is more of a threat to himself than even his obsessed stalker. He drinks hard, parties harder, and he’s never turned down a lovesick groupie.
And there are a lot of those.
Dante is a brash, selfish, narcissistic douchebag. And he’s also a brilliant, devoted and passionate musician who can be unexpectedly vulnerable at times.
When he asks me to be his “daddy” for the month we’re stuck together, I’m shocked, but not for the reasons he thinks. Taming Dante is going to be one hell of a challenge, but he will break before I ever back down, no matter how undisciplined he is now. He doesn’t know what he’s in for, but he’s about to learn.
©2020 Joel Abernathy (P)2021 Podium AudioTaming Dante was my read of Joel Abernathy's writing and I was skeptical at the beginning of how a DD/LB dynamic would be portrayed as often it's not done in an accurate light.
But I was pleasantly surprised. Dante's accelerated lifestyle robbed him of a childhood so his reversion to little was craving the comfort and safety it provided being in that state. Especially with drying to get sober, he needed something else to focus on. Cash being a natural nurturer made it inevitable.
This book also opens up the plots and gives breadcrumbs for the future stories to come with the other characters.
As an avid audiobook listener Iggy Toma and Cooper North were a fantastic duo for this story. I've listened to a few from both and they also deliver.
A great start to the series!
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Don’t listen or read if you’re not into Daddy Dom stuff.
Really Enjoyed This
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Only thing that took me a bit of getting my head around, was the whole daddy thing lol, did make me cringe a bit but still enjoyd.
Grew on Me
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OK, so I liked the contrast between Dante’s provocative bad-boy behaviour and Cash’s calm, caring strength and I thought a daddy-son dynamic really suited them. I liked Dante’s literal daddy issues, and I liked the stalker subplot although I thought it resolved too abruptly. Where I struggled was with the age-play - there was no explanation about why it was necessary and I wasn’t convinced it was, it seemed to be kink for kinks sake. Audio narrators Iggy Toma (as Dante) and Cooper North (as Cash) were so well-cast for the roles, they were absolutely perfect (currently free on the Audible Plus catalogue)!
Rock star bad boy tamed by ex-military daddy!
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