After listening to Bat Boy, I was quite curious about Maclain and Girard because their sort of frenemies situation was very heavily hinted at throughout that one. And given what I knew of them from that first book, this one was about as angsty as I expected. Maclain was very prickly and went hot and cold in the blink of an eye. He had his reasons, and fear was a big motivator for a lot of his actions. I liked that Girard was one of the few people who was able to slowly chip away at his walls. They had some very sweet moments, and then Maclain would shut down again; this pattern happened for much of the story. But Girard never gave up, and his persistence paid off. The ending was very sweet, actually brought a little tear to my eye in that last chapter. And while the resolution with Maclain's dad was sad, I was glad that Maclain finally embraced the found family he hadn't even realized he had.