I mean... I think this is my fundamental problem with "new adult" as an entire genre. This is a teen Wattpad novel with smut. Not even particularly hot smut. The characters are bland, the romance is too quick, the world building is pretty poor but also very similar to Lore Olympus. Like there was a LOT of times when this felt like "what if Lore Olympus but 50 shades of gray" and you can imagine the exact quality of writing that exists here. Maybe this could have been salvaged if it had better prose but said prose were not particularly beautiful so there was really nothing saving this.