This book came highly anticipated and I was disappointed in how it felt like YA regarding the writing and characters. The author didn’t manage to ground me in the characters or the story. The world was interesting but the building of it felt like it was lacking for me (part of why it felt like YA as well). I also sensed that the romance was gonna involve toxicity in ways that I just don’t care to read anymore and wasn’t down to find out if I was right. It was okay but everything I just mentioned put together made for a reading experience I just didn’t care to continue.