i was feeling this premise but as the book went on, and the more is revealed about kyle, the more i started disliking him and found it super hard to root for this relationship or care about him.

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there's just something really icky about him basically goading his own brother into cheating because he was in love with meg, and yes he regrets it and his brother did treat meg terribly, and that explains why he acts the way he does through most of the book (because he feels guilty for that situation and even more guilty because his brother is now dead, etc. etc) and i could have probably gotten past it had he not spent most of the book just standing by while meg gets constantly shit on, gets called names and is treated terribly and had he not thrown something that she personally confided in him back in her face. AND THEN, you literally get a scene where someone tells him that manipulating a situation to get what he wants even if he has the best intentions is actually a selfish thing to do, and HE DOES IT ANYWAY. and he and the book itself justifies his actions in the end as romantic because he only wanted meg to be happy. i would've given this an extra star had he actually learned something and had become more self-aware but nope.