Looking for beta reader for long, slow-burn, character-driven romance

[Arcadia]

If you like to carefully examine character motivations, root for a misfit pairing, and to tear up with a smile, then I'd really love your feedback on a romance story I've written! Honestly, I'm not really much of a reader of romance, and I've only written one story here previously that was structured very differently. So I'm definitely looking for someone who enjoys reading a long, character-driven piece that is less sexual than it is romantic -- I would say it's a romance in which the characters occasionally have sex, rather than an erotic romance. One of my chief concerns, other than whether the story beats land as they're intended, is that maybe this story doesn't really have enough elements of any particular genre in it for someone to actually keep reading it to the end. Like, I'm not sure someone who enjoys an erotic story would like this, and I'm not sure someone who enjoys a typical romance would like this. It's entirely possible that I make up the entire audience of people who would enjoy it! Which would also be valuable feedback to have!

• I'd appreciate general feedback on what seems to work and especially what doesn't, and why. No editing is needed, just thoughts on if things are working, whether anything is confusing, things that take you out of it, and any other thoughts you have as you go along that could help to improve it.
• More specifically, for any who might be so inclined, I'd love to pick your brain about overall pacing and progression as I've never written anything this long.
• The story is about 130k words and is completed.
• I figure I can send you the first four chapters (if that's too boring then nobody is gonna read the rest of it anyway!) which is about 19k words, and you can decide if it's something that might be up your alley or not without any pressure to continue. In fact, even if you just let me know that you couldn't get past chapter 2, hey, that's valuable too. All of this is very new to me and I'm trying to feel my way through it

Here's a link to the only story I've published here so far, which is very different subject matter but a similar writing style: https://www.literotica.com/authors/Arcadia/works/stories

Please shoot me a message if you're interested! Thank you!

 

[VerbalAbuse]

Unclear whether you have any intention of publishing the story on lit.

 

[Arcadia]

You betcha! My tentative plan is to break it up into roughly 15 parts of 2-4 chapters each and post weekly to make it a little more digestible. Wouldn't mind some feedback from a beta reader about that either (;