From Blood and Ash

I wanted to like this book. I really did but...
It started off entertaining enough and the action scenes were gripping and enjoyable.
Unfortunately, that is where the praise leaves me. The heroine as well as the love interest feel two dimensional. I didn't so much feel like I was being introduced to her as I was supposed to feel like I could be her. The love interest is... problematic. I enjoyed the ‘bad boy banter' but his actions stretch the term ‘dubious consent' on numerous occasions in ways that are excused because ‘from him she likes it' - and while we know this as the reader, he definitely cannot be sure of this.
Unfortunately, the book is also wholly predictable with every single plot twist not so much foreshadowed as spelled out in neon lights.
Despite all this I actually had a good time reading it for most of the story but the last hundred pages or so just got drastically worse and worse.