In the first 50 pages I thought this was going to be a 1 star... But although I guessed the stalker as soon as it was mentioned and who the father of the illegitimate child was, I found the last quarter of the book pretty enjoyable.

If you can put up with reading 200+ pages of the internal monologues of idiots before the story really starts, this is the perfect book for you. But I think the author did a great job of writing horrendous characters in a reasonable storyline that wasn't hugely over dramatic.