Um, is this a romance?

Darkfever (Fever #1) - Karen Marie Moning

So I'm pretty much the last person in Romancelandia to read Darkfever (listening to the audiobook, actually).  I'm all good with an alpha hero, but Barrons is something else.  Does he ever do anything that is even remotely not douchey?  I have an hour and a half left and I pretty much want to punch him in the balls for being such a high-handed ass all the time....