this was meh. it had a lot of standard tropes - grumpy/sunshine, brothers friends, touch her and die, etc. but idk Alex was just ok to me outside of a few good quotes. Ithe second half of the book really goes off the rails with some crazy plot points. if you think you'd like mafia but mafia is too much you'd like this I think. 

all this to be said it was trash tv in book form and I finished it. I was entertained. not sure I'd recommend though without very specific requests.