ARC received for an honest review


I will say up front - for most of the first 3 books in the Thoughtless series, I didn't like Griffin Hancock - at all. So going in I knew that it was going to be a hard sell for me to like him when the whole book was about him, but I was excited all the same to receive an ARC.


I loved getting back into the D-Bags world, but god almighty, Griffin grated on just about every last nerve. The first 65% was him all "I am awesome" and I just wanted to slap the crap out of him for being such a self absorbed jerk!


It was like reading a 13 year old girl's diary! Whine whine whine, me me me. I could understand why he felt the way he did about some things, but the way he carried on - I was getting ready to call the waaaaambulance!

I could see that he loved his family, but his actions didn't really show that at all. For as long as I had wanted to get into Griffin's head, there were times when I wanted to get out of there so much!

Makes it sound like I didn't like this book, doesn't it?

Whilst I abhorred him and his actions for a great part of the book, the last 35% of it were amazing.

After all these years, we finally saw some changes in Griffin "The Hulk" Hancock - and all for the better. I saw regard for others, I saw humility. Heck, I saw a broken man making amends.

And then Ms Stephens managed something I never thought would happen.

I shed a tear for Griffin Hancock

And in the end, I liked the new, and vastly improved Griffin.

That all the outer bravado and jokes and crude behaviour was hiding so much. Anger. Bitterness. And at times, fear.

His story shows that you can be overly confident, but that confidence is not always enough. It can only get you so far in life.

And that family - blood or the family you create - is the most important thing you can have in your life.

So thank you Ms Stephens for making Griffin a character that I could truly like, maybe even have a bit of a spot in my heart for.