If this is all Ms. Roy/Rostova could come up with given the immense possibilities of an Indian setting, with maharajas and civil lines lives of Memsahibs....I am very disappointed. The book has gratuituos sex scenes which do not contribute to the story in any way. Its also wildly derivative in the worst way - the protagonist is an English Memsahib of the Raj, who thinks and acts like an American woman from the 1990s. Stereotypes and cliches are scattered on each and every page, and the author has very little imagination when it comes to sex. on the whole, i suggest avoid this one.