oh my goodness inner turmoil and fair warning that this is def spoiler review!

Okay! The goods: I liked the mystery, geography, most of the cast, the settings, and the writing as a while but I don't know if they out way the weird and problematic romance...

The bad/the romance: first off, it's kinda incestuous. While they may not be BIOLOGICALLY siblings...they are raised from a relatively young age as such. It's just cringe and weird but then it ramps the hell up to problematic in the last 1/4 with the dude CONSTANTLY pressuring the girl and ignoring her protests and then the god awful use of the "I was with all those girls to get you out of my mind." I threw the book and paced the room for several minutes trying to decide if I wanted to finish the book...which I did out of pure hate/spite. Then the main female character started feeling GUILTY that she didn't want to have sex with her step brother and inner monologued oh no! what if he doesn't think I love him anymore LIKE WHY?! FUCKING WHY?! WHO--WHY?! WHY DID YOU RUIN THIS BOOK WITH THAT SHIT?!