I'm a little disappointed with the writing. For some reason, I did not think it would read like that. Towards the end of the book I just stopped caring about the plot as it felt clear to me that the author did not care either. 

The thing with dark romances is that they kind of live and die by their characters and I just did not like the couple here. Everyone just felt like a caricature and not like a real or complex person. Additionally, the age gap is just...ELECTRIC CHAIR!! The fact that the age gap is emphasized without any real interrogation of the power imbalance is a real turn off. I've read age gap that is done very thoughtfully, this is not one of those to me.