The storyline is quite good, with well-developed characters who demonstrate growth during the course of the novel. The author has a good grasp of plot development, having obviously created a thorough outline of each avenue before writing this entertaining book. It's also not thousands of pages long like most seem to be; I recommend it for all of these reasons. 

I really enjoyed reading this, with my only complaints being poor editing (misused words and bad grammar are inexcusable with the software we have these days, imo—even my phone catches most typos) and the constant reminders on EVERY page that it's supposed to be read HERE on findnovel.net!! If these are too irksome for your taste, you've been warned. 

This is a very engaging, witty story with a lot of interesting plot twists. Most of the characters are well-developed and thoughtful to the point of being individuals whom it's easy to distinguish from one another, and to imagine as they live their lives. An exception is the one-dimensional Alpha antagonist, in my opinion; he's a disappointment to me, being such a relatively large part of the storyline without having any real kind of arc. I also don't understand why the Alpha Emeritus is so aggressively hostile towards the heroine and her son that he rejects the possibility of the teen's being his grandson, even though he's nearly identical to the Alpha. Those two points are somewhat minor compared to the story as a whole, which is truly entertaining. 

My biggest complaints about this novel are that its quirks, for lack of a better term, are distracting and reek of laziness. For example, several sections are copied and pasted wholesale with only minor tweaks under the guise of presenting the same scene from multiple points of view. To me, as a writer, there are lots of other, better ways to inflate word count, like creating inner monologues. 

The author also has a chapter where songs are mentioned, and instead of focusing on only the relevant stanzas, the songs are written out in their entirety, including repeating choruses. This is tiresome for those who aren't familiar with the song(s) and have no interest in searching for the connection between the lyrics and the situation, e.g., an apology from one character to another. 

Another example is that there's at least one fact that's easy to find out that the author simply guessed, leaving an Author's Note stating s/he didn't know: the flight time from Italy to California. Why not use Google to find the time from Rome or Milan to Los Angeles (south/most common) or Sacramento (north)? That's the kind of detail that makes a book more realistic and relatable. It also gives the reader a better way to visualise the character's journey. It takes only a few seconds to look up international airports, and which ones have direct flights to which locations. I know many authors, but I don't know a single one who skips doing research. 

There are several long paragraphs that consist of run-on sentences and/or have little to no punctuation. This is one of the things that makes this novel hard to read, and it's a real shame. There's a lot of confusion about everyday homophones, too, like there/their/they're, bare/bear, your/you're, etc. 

The novel's foreign language origins could make it difficult for some to follow easily, or could make it annoying to others. For example, in Italian, the word "I" is almost always implied if it's followed by a verb: "I am going", "I am doing", etc., in English translates directly to "Am going", "Am doing", and so on. That's why the characters – all of them, not just the few from Italy – use that stilted sentence structure of dropping the "I" when they speak: the author has Italian as a primary language. The grammar is the same, though I can't think of a consistent example; it doesn't bother me, but it will be noticeable to readers who don't know Italian or similar languages. 

Please, don't let these criticisms stop you from reading this enjoyable tale! I'd have given it 5 stars if it weren't for the issues I listed. I'm simply being thorough in hopes that the author will read this review and use it constructively. Thank you.