The reviews of the book are outstanding but I couldn't stomach the godawful prose.  Did the writer use AI to make her language sound "sophisticated"?  

I have put up with a lot of bad writing (plot holes, heavy exposition, cardboard characters, pacing issues) and I have managed to ignore all that for a good story but I could only get two or three chapters before I gave up on this. 

If you want to be a writer you actually need to be a reader first.