I liked the idea behind the book, and the story was actually fairly decent. It's a lot of technical things I had a problem with. If those were cleaned up it would have gotten a much higher rating, but as it is. I barely got through it. I did finish it though, so it's not the worst book I've ever read.
To begin with, there were a lot of typos, missing words, switched words. I almost thought it was originally in a different language and something was lost in translation. If most of those were fixed, it would be much easier to read.
However, there were a few other issues as well. The pacing was off. Everything happened quickly and it wasn't developed enough. Honestly, I was a bit confused about the story because it didn't have a natural flow, it seemed to be choppy and jump quickly without really showing how things came to be. We didn't see much of the characters thought processes. I didn't really feel anything toward them. There wasn't much to them, and what was there didn't feel developed.
The dialogue didn't have a natural flow. Some statements didn't make much sense, or I felt they were out of place. Something wasn't right, it didn't sound like a real conversation to me.
Everything combined kind of made the book completely unbelievable. Especially with how fast everything came to pass. I just didn't buy into the instant love. It didn't make sense to me. I also didn't really see where feelings started to shift in them. Even the conflicts seemed to come out of nowhere and make no sense. I think that also goes back to the lack of development. The reader needed to see more of the internal struggle they were dealing with, and really understand their thoughts and where they were coming from.
I feel bad giving such a low rating because I do think if it had been done differently I actually would have really liked it. I do see potential for liking other books from this author, the epilogue where we get to see more about the character of the next book was really good. It showed some great writing that I felt the rest of the book lacked. Maybe this book was just too rushed and wasn't given the time it needed to make it great. I don't really know, but this one is definitely not one I can recommend. I'm sure there are other books by this author that are probably much better than this one. The writing from the epilogue is what I really wish the whole book had been like. Hopefully that will continue into the next book.