Grades don’t matter anymore. Now I know what’s important. I need to protect the girls—no matter what. No matter who, or what, tries to come for them. No matter what it means for me . Evan Wakefield’s life changed when he met the red-headed girl sitting next to him in class. It’s not just the pretty, quiet redhead with the fox ears who needs his protection anymore. There’s a new girl who needs him, and she’s nothing like the self-possessed raven-haired beauty with the amber eyes or the smart and quiet blonde who’s always quietly watching and helping. This girl is different . And she's got a problem that only Evan can solve, using his newfound powers as a Protector. Now, Evan just has to navigate the drama with his multiple girlfriends, all while racing against time when it comes to the oncoming demi-human war. There's not much time for schoolwork when the clock is ticking toward the apocalypse.
I was irritated with how the MC seemed to ignore common sense and disregard reality in the first book. I wrote it off as him being human and not some Garry Stu who always sees things in the proper context. As was suggested at the end of the first novel; I had thought that as he acclimated to this new way of life and had time to get used to the idea of protecting the girls that he would begin to be more prudent in how he approached and responded to things. I was wrong.
Minor Spoilers:
The first real leg of the journey in this new book was the MC deciding to go off and leave the girls entirely alone. "What could happen," says the guy who SAW a molitov cocktail thrown in their window and a woman kidnapped and bound to a bed for days. But I figured it would make sense as further context is given. Before that could happen however he notices a car following him. He decides he's being overly suspicious... Not more than 5 pages away from him saying he KNOWS he's being watched and that they're waiting for something. Then he smells that they are in fact demi. He concludes that they will follow him all the way to where he's going. Next line is him arriving having ignoring the imprudence of letting them follow him and know where he is going. If for no other reason then to know when he's coming back and when the girls are vulnerable.
I'm also so OVER him being blinded by the smell of other demi's to the point of debilitation when he's needing to defend against these vary demis.
I'm so done. I don't even care if everything starts making sense after that point. The MC doesn't care or think about the very things he says he and we know he should. Then he just blazes forward into the unknown not because it makes sense but because that's where the narrative is going. If nothing else, we as the audience are being alienated. The story is failling to help us appreciate where our MC is coming from. Either that or the MC is a total dunce and the author doesn't know/care.