My Dad's Billionaire Best Friend: A Book Review

Author: Lexie Miers

Format: Audiobook

Genre: Romance* (I did not find this book romantic in the slightest)

Length: 5 hr 5 min

Rating: 0.5

I think this is by far one of if not the worst book I've read all year. Be forewarned my entire review is mostly spoilers.

While I understand a fast-paced book, what I do not understand is why Chastity waited 22 years of her life, refusing to sleep with anyone at all, only to fall into bed with someone 20+ years her senior that she met not even a week ago. Beyond that, she constantly denigrates herself, which I hate in general, but when a book is written by a woman and the FMC does nothing but talk down on herself because of the man she's with or interested in, it genuinely disgusts me. There were several points in the book where Chastity wanted to "spoil" Axel - a billionaire.... need I say more? This girl is the classic definition of a pick me - constantly wanting to be this perfect image for Axel to an extent that makes her seem as though Axel's opinion is the only one that matters. Adding on to the pick me allegations, she defends Axel - a grown man - to her father. Axel, being not only the senior in the relationship but a man, should have stepped up to defend himself, rather than standing there looking stupid while Chastity defended him. Additionally, most of Chastity's personality is her being an innocent little virgin.

Onto Axel: He is not only - in my opinion - a weirdo, but a hypocrite. Starting with the weirdo allegations. Early on in the book, when the characters first meet, it's very clear that Axel is sexually attracted to Chastity and invites her on a date. On said date ,he says that Chastity looks like a "clingy teenager," but still gets into the car with her and proceeds with the date. While he does confirm that she is over the age of 21, the concept of a 40+ year old man being sexually attracted to a woman that he thinks looks like a teenager is disgusting and perverted. When looking at his hypocrisy, I'd like to point out that multiple times throughout their "affair," Axel admits to himself that he has feelings for her. Yet when she announces out loud, he says, "That wasn’t part of the plan," and asks her to leave. Granted, time and place on her part. She probably should not have announced in front of her father, but prior to going out, he said that they weren't doing anything wrong, they were consenting adults, and should be honest. Beyond that, he consistently (over the two weeks they knew each other) made it obvious that he was upset about her leaving for school - showing care and attachment. But why is it that when she says that she has feelings for him, he immediately shuts it down?

Overall if you are a woman who likes women, dislikes infantilization, and believes that a man should act like a man, then I would NOT reccomend this book.

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