this book was... fine. like, it was very aggressively mediocre. the flowery writing is very clearly there to sound fancier than the story actually is, and some of the worldbuilding is completely non-sensical. like, the reveal at the end that

the cows and sky are actually there and healthy! the government is just LYING TO YOU!!!!! they are big and EVIL!!!!

is so juvenile I was actively losing my mind. but if you approach this book as a romance, it's cute. serviceable. fine. aka I recommend reading this from like an 11-year-old's mindset and not an adult's cause if you apply even the slightest bit of logic this shit falls apart so fast. but I'll probs read the next book, purely cause I'm a sucker for enemies to lovers and a part of me is hoping that's what the series leads to, but yeah beyond that draw... don't recommend it.