At first, this was a struggle to read. I either hadn't read the blurb or read it so long ago that I had no idea what I was getting into.
I kept waiting impatiently for the romantic 'conflict' to be resolved. Then I saw what the author was doing and realized things were going to jump off a completely different cliff.
Instead of turning out to be the predictable story I expected, it kept taking surprising turns right up to the end.
I'm vaguely dissatisfied with how it turned out for character XYZ, but kudos to the author for doing something different.