This is testimony to the fact that we keep doing something if we keep getting away with it. Smith has been getting along with depicting characters that lack any semblance to real life people. At least when you're young, his reference to characters 7 ft tall and capacity to make love all night long, keeps you interested. The only progress that his books made was to depict the sex scenes in more detail while sacrificing even more depth in the main male and female characters. How do you give a proper review without at least questioning the logic of a mother witnessing her daughter going through hell and at the same time falls in love and sleeps with a guy ? Ever read a book by Nelson DeMille? I try to imagine his characters in a W.Smith story. That would be something to read. My poor mother wasted her money on my first Smith book in years. But I guess as long as others buy rhino horn, people will keep killing rhinos.