I liked the premise of this story at first, but the last few chapters just completely turned me off.
Despite hoping maybe the prince would be a red harring(or end up as comic relief side filler) I already had an early inkling this wasn't the type of story to have such a twist; and seeing the spoilers (I'm not fussy about checking them) I was unfortunately right.
As someone mentioned before, the characters themselves are great by themselves, but I notice that their personalities are really made to be intense; Gilberts was especially turned up, but played out in a way that just made him unlikeable and even gross/disturbing to the point of extreme complaints in previous comments. (honestly I felt so uncomfortable, I nearly just clicked out, but wanted to give it a chance.)
I get it's probably(hopefully) meant to be a story focused on some type of trope, but it's just really not done well which is unfortunate.
I hope others can find this to be enjoyable, but I have to take a pass on this.