Three-hundred pages in and it was fine, but I just didn't feel any need to complete it. Plot-wise, there were a lot of irons in the fire, but none of them hot enough to make a mark. I had trouble keeping people straight. There are A LOT of characters and family names and locations thrown at you, and the names were sometimes complicated, or too similar to another. It might have been a personal weakness that I couldn't remember who was who, but it really did make things hard to follow. I will probably read later books by this author. She does show talent, and maybe it was just this book I didn't get along with.

Objectionable material: none in the first 300 pages. The society is formal and conservative, so the story matches.