the ask@AAR: What’s your favorite age gap love story?

We have 113 books tagged as age gap romances. 61 one of them are DIKs. They are, in general, not my jam. (That said, I adore What I Did for a Duke.)

Why don’t I like them? I think it’s because I’m old. If I’d married someone 25 years older than me, he’d now be 87 to my 62. That doesn’t call to me. I also worry about children having–because it’s almost always a man who’s got the age edge–a dad who isn’t there to see them as adults. Yes, yes, I know that can happen to any child but the odds go up when you have your first child in your 40s and 50s. The power dynamic in books like that is also, in many, off-putting to me. (A lead who calls their lover Daddy is a sure predictor of a DNF for me!)

But I am a victim of my own biases and they aren’t share by many many romance readers. And I always love to be proved wrong. (Really.) So, change my mind. What age gap romances do you love and why?

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