The age gap itself wasn't it self a problem. But he wasn’t just older, he knew her as a small child and watched her grow up. She was also always in love with him which made the power dynamics feel even worse. Despite attempts to try to make it feel less predatory, it still felt too close to accidental grooming. Even if the main male character didn’t “view” her sexually or romantically until after she was an adult, I just couldn’t get past them knowing each other her whole life and him always being an adult during that