the characters are just so cliche and the age gap is very uncomfortable. it’s legal but weird considering she’s in her early 20s and he’s in his mid 40s. their first real moment of chemistry takes place after he reveals his not just old fashioned, but misogynistic mindset which rubbed me the wrong way. what made me stop is the uncomfortable way the author seemed to romanticize cleo losing her virginity at 14 and paralleling it with the next sentence about her adult, sexual relationship with frank.