I tried. The book and I, *we* tried.Well...I don't know what happened in this book. I do not understand the characters. I could not properly keep up with the plot. I was about half way through when I debated if I just should DNF it. I did not dnf it.The book started off alright, then it went downhill and literally the last maybe 3 chapters were actually somewhat good.I appreciate giving the main characters personality and a backstory and all that but it just didn't work out for me. Maybe this book and the characters and I guess their shifter-self would make more sense (to me) considering this book and series is a spin-off of another series ? Idk man, idk.Something for you 3am night thoughts: How much can someone be obsessed with the scent of another person ? Apparently a lot. Especially when the scent in question is cinnamon. I like cinnamon too, but there's a limit to things. Also, how did Sammy manage to smell like cinnamon constantly ? At some point in the first third Rax nicknamed Sammy "Red". Why ? "Mr. Worst" at least made sense. But "Red" ? I don't know.Both names were a choice. Felt very off in the flow of the story. Their relationship made sense in the end but it was very non existing in the beginning and then very fast towards the end. As like basically the whole story.How is one of the main struggles of the male lead freeing his brother behind some gate, only for that  brother to quite literally drive off after saying like 5 words. Good thing this man is apparently getting his own book.If anyone reading this is confused, so am I.