This held my attention I would say up until about half way. I honestly don’t know how when there are about 6 different plot lines going on and none are fully formed.
I felt like everything was very superficial, I didn’t know where any of the story was going - which is good when it’s a twisty story - but this just felt unrefined.
i didn’t care about the romance element because it was half formed and superficial, the mystery aspect was boring and didn’t give the reader enough to chew on, and the academia setting was kind of pointless because it wasn’t fleshed out enough.