I liked this book so much, but was so frustrated by it at the same time. I liked when Serena tried to be stronger and make changes, but then she would take 10 steps back into the victim role and I just wanted to smack her. The majority of the men in this book made me want to throw up. The 'romance', if you can call it that, was on a very, very small scale. She was engaged to one of the few good men, but was too busy worrying about when he'd finally hit her to actually feel anything for him until the end of the book. It had a happy ending of sorts, in terms of Serena's life got better because of the events that took place.