If you have ever read serial romance novels before, this will seem familiar. It is steamier and more provocative than those romances, but otherwise pretty similar: predictable, heavy on racy scenes, and not any type of literary masterpiece. I didn't go into it with high expectations, so I wasn't going to be terribly upset if it was less than perfect. For me, it is one of those "no-brainer" reads I like to read as a break from all the professional and "serious" reading I do. It did provide that, the main two characters were better developed than I expected, and the end of the book was a cliffhanger that ensured I would read the next book.