The Thousand Steps

I admit, I had high expectation for this novel because it was set in Cape Town - which is close to where I live and I am always up for reading books set in my province (similar to a state). After reading a bit of this, I should have lowered my expectations. 
It wasn't necessarily a bad book and I did like the main character most of the time, I just couldn't deal with her actions and emotions. 
Like a lot of the plot (or at least I'm guessing, since I didn't even finish it), revolves around Ebba and this guy - who she thinks is THE MOST PERFECT AND WONDERFUL AND BEAUTIFUL GUY SHE'S EVER SEEN whenever he does something like open a door or smile and that's when a little big part of me went because honestly, I thought we were past the whole his eyes looked at me and I just decided that even if he killed my whole family and my dog I would still marry him. 
There was also a lot of sexism - ‘oh, you're a girl, you can't do this or you only need to worry about this' blah blah blah, another reason for not finishing it. Like there was literally this quote of: All you've got to do is learn how to be a good wife and catch a husband and my reaction was: Not to be dramatic or anything but I'd rather die. Why yes, I did have fun reacting to the quotes. 

There was also the trope of ‘seemingly plain girl gets a makeover and suddenly everyone, including her crush loves her', which I'm very much not for (though some stuff do get it right).