As other reviewers have mentioned the relationship stuff kind of ruined the book. So much for me I’m not sure I’m going to continue the series. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind a good romance in the story… but this wasn’t romance so much as someone’s teenage fantasy. To the author’s credit I appreciate this wasn’t turned into a smut drama… but even still it would’ve been better without the characters emotional gymnastics. When the relationship was touched on in the first book it was done well, with conflicting emotions, tension, jealousy… but this book tried to insert normal relationship emotions into an increasingly abnormal situation, breaking the immersion… making the characters involved feel either like perverts or sociopaths…. the whole thing felt forced.
The story was fantastic with several different arcs… the last ones being phenomenal. I just never wanted an author to unalive love interests so much.