I hated this book so much. DNF 60%.

This wasn’t worth even one star and if I could punch any book in the face it would be this one.

This book would be better if it had 50% fewer words, 100% fewer similes and overall if the author relaxed and stopped trying so hard.
This author threw everything she had into this; every terrible thing happened to these two, every character in it had a full description (even side characters who barely had names), the heroine was a perfectly perfect snowflake who every man wanted, every villain was deeply evil but had no real motivation for it other than that they were jerks and the level of melodrama was intolerable for me. At its core, it did have a compelling love story but I just couldn’t get past the writing. It felt like the author deliberately tried to make the sentences cumbersome and was showing off her prose skills with unnecessarily fancy word choices and often misused them. I read a lot of historical romance, which is known for being densely worded, but this was beyond. It’s glaringly obvious this is a debut novel by an indy author. Glaringly.

I don’t think I will ever pick up another book by this author, I don’t have the patience.