There are moments I absolutely loved in this book and moments I thought I would just chuck it instead. Milan sets up a deeply unlikeable male main character, made palatable solely through his inner monologue, which at least gives us clues into his emotional constipation and discomfort with affection, expression, etc. He is possibly coded as neurodivergent, though I hesitate to lean on that, because Milan doesn't identify that as a characterization in the enhanced edition's Q&A and instead focuses on his emotional response to the pressures of his title, so it's hard to say how we are meant to interpret his social anxiety. I generally struggle with superiority conflicts for aristocrats (waiting hundreds of pages for men to discover working class women are worth their attention is grating for me), and the third-act conflict stretched this to a limit that was hard for me to recover from. Ultimately, this man's epiphany is far too easily won and he doesn't bloody his knees nearly enough for my taste. 

Saving grace for this book is NED. I cannot wait for his story, and I absolutely cheered for his third act appearances in this one.