This is a top rated RH book but I don't particularly agree with the raves it gets.  While it's dark and a 5🌶️ and the writing is fine, it is not new or inventive for the genre. 

It may be a flaw I find with contemporary settings as the suspension of belief is harder to maintain when they are an hour outside Memphis or the situation is just realistic enough to be unbelievable.  I don't want to think that if this was actually happening in small town Tennessee the plot and narrative arc would not be so neat and tidy. 

The royals of Forsythe University series works because the whole city is made up with rules that could never exist outside the city of Forsythe and the authors never try to make it match up to our world.