A harsh review but that's the truth. Author had a promising premise but wasted it by rushing the story from the get go and seemingly brute forcing things like inserting romance very early on. Inconsistencies also started to prop up and judging by how the author just seemingly let it slide, not so promising. Thus, a rather unfortunate wasted potential that was ruined by blatant issues that made it bland, shallow, and forced.Benefit of doubt that the later chapters improved but the early chapters pretty much already crippled the read for me.