I was excited when I read that this story had both a protagonist and an antagonist. Most of Lia Anderssen's books feature female protagonists brought down by the own natures, so a woman brought down by Machiavellian scheming would be new.
Alas, though the book introduces the idea of an antagonist, it abandons the idea of a protagonist. Instead, we have a series of female POV stories from different women's (and a few men's) perspectives, loosely tied together into a bigger story.
The lack of an actual protagonist is the book's main fault. It is well-written with a number of hot scenes, but just never comes together and has an extremely limp ending.
(reviewed 31 days after purchase)