Review: Teach Me Daddy

Teach Me Daddy by Isabella Starling
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 Stars

Overall Rating ★★★★
Plot ★★★★
Humor ★★★
Characters & Character Development ★★★★
Narration ★★★★

Story: Maddox & Cora. I liked these characters and their intense unconventional relationship. I was surprised by Cora's personality though. She seemed to be very bold at times with Maddox yet with everyone else she couldn't talk or stand up for herself. I didn't understand how she didn't have one friend at school. I feel like that's pretty rare. She was extremely naive with the football player at school yet she knew what she did to Maddox and how he was sexually attracted to her. I felt like she was a contradiction. She'd had a growth spurt yet she couldn't understand why a football player was talking to her. I honestly wanted the students to be involved more in this book. Maybe she made a friend or two or Maddox got jealous of guys trying to hit on her. Literally everyone around her wanted her body it seemed. Although Cora confused me, I liked the relationship she had with Maddox. I enjoyed seeing Maddox change from the hard person that he was at the beginning of the book. He always had kindness in him but he hid it. I loved how protective he was over Cora.

(view spoiler)[I was and was not surprised at the end to find out that her dad had done everything. I was definitely surprised at how his story ended. I would have preferred him to rote in prison than him die. He had so much to answer for. Then maybe Maddox would have gotten into the house when he wasn't home to find the evidence he needed. It was literally crazy what her father did. At first I thought it was one of his friends or something. I didn't realize it was him until it was closer to the end. Since Cora was such a great student, it confused me a bit at the end when she had a hard time explaining to the admissions counselor why she was right for that school. She'd worked towards that throughout all of high school and I felt she should have been better prepared for that question. (hide spoiler)]

Narration: Samantha Summers, Alexander Cendese - It was pretty good.

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