You know, it had its moments. Richard Grenvile was a realistic, charismatic, almost an antihero type of man. With lots of faults he always kept me questioning his motives and whether he was capable of something other than cruelty and misbehaving. So it was definitely justified for him being the center of everything and part of the book title. But then, I was constantly reminded by these same lines by the protagonist where she reminded that he had many faults along (yes, I know that already, get on with it). Because of that it was a bit too long and it didn't had as much beautiful passages as in Rebecca.