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A Daddy for Alexi by Joe Satoria
1.0
fast-paced

This isn't the worst book I've ever read, but it needs a lot of work, in my opinion. The book should have honestly been another 100–200 pages long to flesh out the relationships between the characters. And I mean all the relationships, not just the one between Alexi and Warren (although that could definitely use some more fleshing out as well). We literally meet the best friend of one of the romantic leads in the last chapter. That's unacceptable to me. And Alexi and Benny barely get any time to showcase their friendship/break-up/make-up. Like, it's a whole mess. 

Warren is also kind of controlling, and not in a good way.
He pretty much bans Alexi from seeing his one (1) friend in person because he (Warren) has a history with him. He also never discusses safe words with Alexi—literally, at one point, Warren says, "Good boys don't say no, do they?" and Alexi just... agrees with him?? Not cool.


There's also a lot of grammatical errors that need to be fixed, as well as some truly indecipherable sentences. For example, in the first chapter, there is this paragraph:

Visibly about to crumble into a pile of dust, he smiled. "I should—get back. I'm—I'm customer services."

What does that even mean. The worst part is, the "he" in this sentence isn't even supposed to be speaking. It's the POV character who is speaking, so it should be "I"! This truly feels like a rough draft. If this book had more work, and a bit of a character overhaul for Warren, it could be really good.