Lord knows I love camp, but Beauty Queens was a bit too heavy-handed in its messages for me to really get into and enjoy the novel. I think I would have liked it more if Bray had toned down the preaching a bit. Don't get me wrong, I agree with the large part of what she was saying (with a few qualms about the nature of the Good Feminist Women vs. Bad Ignorant Women set-up), I would have just rather Bray had not hit me over the head with it quite so hard.