I liked this book more than I thought I was going too. Especially when I could see that the author was pushing the main character into a relationship with a woman that was already seeing somebody. I am guessing the reasons that this didn’t bother me too much is the fact that the man she was seeing was a complete douche canoe. Oh, and not in just everyday standards, he is a manipulative evil bastard. The other reason that it didn’t bother me too much was the fact that the main character was up front and honest to both parties of his attraction, and that he wasn’t going to act on them until he got his own shit straightened out. So the background romance was interesting and not the angsty moon eyed crap that is in a lot of books since Twilight. I really enjoyed John’s blunt honesty through the story, how he didn’t hold back his thoughts to spare others feeling. He explained why he was the way he was, why he didn’t the things he does with hardly any apologies for them. This is not to say that he didn’t apologize for his fuck ups, he is very up front with these as well. I didn’t like how quick John trusted Sig and her Scoobies, especially when two of them proved themselves to be untrustworthy. For somebody that has been protecting himself for so long, with as many enemies that he has this didn’t make much sense. So I am curious about book two in this series, I want see where the author goes with the story.On a complete random none I also want to say that each character was not unlike a character from Scooby Doo? I wonder if this was intentional or just tropes in play. We had Sig/Daphne the hawt girl that everybody wants, Molly/Velma the nerdy girl in glasses, Choo/Shaggy the stoner, John/Fred/Scooby the hawt alpha male with canine abilities.
 - Elliott James)