Way too angsty and the amount of miscommunication and non-communication was INFURIATING. 

Skimmed through the whole book. Meh.

Boring and damn slow 

Sigh... Had high hopes but the characters were not likeable whatsoever.

This had so much potential. I was so excited for this book. But unfortunately, it was so so hard to get through, for some reason. I think a big reason is the writing style. It's so formal, dense and wordy. I think it was the author's attempt to create that mysterious old-age aura around the vampire but it just weighed down the story. The conversations between our two characters were painful to read because they were so jerky and awkward and is lowkey reminiscent of socially inept highschoolers. Maybe it was the author's attempt at creating tension but again, it wasn't executed very well. I had to DNF because I was really trudging through thick, thick mud in order to get past the pages. I thought this would be a fast and run read but unfortunately, it's not for me. 

I don't know if this book had an editor or a beta reader but 30 pages in and I've already noticed a handful of errors like typos, forgetting to use capital letters at the start of a new sentence and other grammatical mistakes. Usually I can overlook them but these are pretty in-your-face and disrupts the story. This really reads like a Wattpad story and honestly, I've seen better written works on Wattpad.

The author tries to make the MMC "grumpy" but he comes across as a rude asshole. Literally no loving dad in the world would be angry at the person who has helped your daughter out of pretty big trouble a few times. Like heck the FMC brought his kid to the hospital when she fell from a tree and drove her home when she was stranded but the MMC is still "hmph she's young and doesn't have kids of her own so wtf is she doing around my kid". Excuse me, what???

Probably trying to push the grumpyxsunshine narrative, the author tries to write the FMC as this really cheerful woman but honestly, it feels disingenuous. The FMC keeps "bursting into a massive grin/smile" over the smallest things and laughing nonstop at absolutely nothing. 

The characters are also not behaving consistently with their ages, especially the MMC. As a 40 year old man, why are you thinking and acting like a high school boy? The way he argues with the FMC is reminiscent of a teenager in his first relationship. The FMC also retaliates in a very immature manner, mind you, she's 24 not 19. Even after her house burnt down and she's having a mental breakdown, she's somehow still getting into a petty argument with MMC about who doesn't want who. 

I tried to stick this through til the end but unfortunately, it just got too childish and silly.

The angst was too much. The past angst, present angst - I felt suffocated. I might pick this up again in the future but not right now.

I feel that the writing style is boring. Maybe I might pick it up again as an audiobook but maybe not.