Anne Dirty Girls' Good Books's Reviews > Scrap

Dare and his tattoos and his shaved head and his campervan repair business and especially his toppy ways are a far cry from the kind of guy Grant normally goes for. But Grant’s boss has put him on Dare’s case, literally, and now the question isn’t *if* Grant will give into temptation, but it’s how often will he? And what will he do if he starts having feelings for Dare?

Dare was a dream of a character. He’s secure in who he is and what he wants out of life. He’s found some boundaries between himself and his drug addicted brother. He knows what turns him on – and Grant really turns his crank. Dare doesn’t have a lot of growing to do in this story. That may have been part of what made Grant look so bad in my eyes.

Grant was nearly unredeemable to me. The first 80 pages of the book are full of me highlighting examples of Grant’s asshole and entitled behavior. He’s making a lot of painful changes in his life, but it’s a slow process. He starts out looking down on Dare. He misses the support his ex-wife gave him when they were still married. He misses seeing his daughters, though he acknowledges he’s always been working so much that he didn’t get much time to see them anyway. I just didn’t like him very much. It was nice that he changed his ways over the course of the book, but he was so awful in the beginning of it that I had a hard time forgiving him and believing he had truly changed.

The one area in Grant’s life that was really was sweet was his adoration of his daughters and his determination to keep them comfortable and supported. He also really liked his ex-wife and very much regretted hurting her.

So, it was a pretty mixed bag for me. I haven’t read the previous two books in this series, but I don’t think that was a problem. Actually, I’m a bit concerned that Grant was an even bigger asshole in those books – I’m not sure I could have come to like him at all if I’d read them! Scrap does stand on its own, though.