** spoiler alert ** This book had a lot of potential to become a favourite and it started off with a great setup to be a fantastic novel but... Stevie made it hard for me to fall in love with the story, or more specifically, with him. After he's rescued by Dan, Dan offers to let him live in his place rent free, buys him new clothes and gives him an unlimited time to find his life with no pressure. Stevie knows Dan likes him, but instead of offering the same patience back for Dan to come out, Stevie goes and hooks up with some college stud for sex. How exactly was that supposed to encourage Dan to open up whatever feelings he had for Stevie? Not to mention the fact that Stevie spent more time getting laid by someone he admits to not liking instead of looking for a job or trying to communicate better with the guy he likes. Was Dan supposed to ~*magically*~ give in to that too without encouragement? It just makes Stevie seem so ungrateful and stuck up. Even with him being raped at the beginning, all my sympathies for him pretty much faded after reading exactly how long he dated the college dude. I spent more than half the novel just hoping Dan would find someone else to piss Stevie off or just come to his senses and put his foot down to say 'enough! I'm not a doormat!'