Soooooo. Huh? What just happened here!?!?

This is not my typical genre of novel - I'm fairly new to romance and the only ones I've really enjoyed have been more rom-com than this, which is definitely straddling the taboo romance and dark romance genres, but I knew this going in to it. Many of the other reviews highlight how consent is dealt with in a very questionable way here and the storyline 100% requires almost magical-realism style suspension of belief, but I somewhat expected that because of the genres I knew the book fell into (and if explicit sex scenes are not your cup of tea, this is 100% one to avoid). Yet, there is something here that works, even though I can't quite put my finger on it. It may just be my current exploration of the romance genre of books, my taste for things that push genre boundaries and my newfound desire to be tested as a reader, because this book definitely does all three of these things.