This tawdry melodrama was awesome. If you're looking for serious literature look elsewhere but if you want to enjoy scandal, drama and intrigue written with entertainingly purple prose this is your ticket. This book took a while to really get going but once it did it was hard to put down. I really enjoyed how twisted it was. Beatrice was a great anti-hero. Also the sex scenes are hilariously terrible. If you want to read sex being compared to punching a fist through a curtain and a terrier shaking a rat in its mouth, this book will oblige you.