Part of me wants to dog on this series, but I keep picking up the next one, so I suppose the joke is on me. Mostly I find the covers and the titles and embarrassing - Ha! - but the characters are well developed, flawed, and fun. The main relationship does fall into the romance/relationship book trope of "if they would just tell eachother how they actually feel instead of trying to 'protect' the other one everything would probably work just fine" but I suppose boring, calm, healthy relationships don't sell books. I want to get to know Peter, Cody, and Hugh better. I like the friends.