Re-read review:

I couldn't remember why I didn't like this book, since I didn't have any original notes. Now I remember.

This book is nothing but sex scenes for the first half. I mean, yeah, all of the Merry Gentry series features heavily on the sex, but this one seems to do nothing to advance the plot but is just slightly related, extraordinarily long sex scenes. Which is fine, I guess, but not what I'm looking for in this series (nor what I'm used to - the frequency really did change in this book).

HOWEVER the second half (maybe more like 1/3 - 1/4?) of the book is all plot and is excellent. It feels a bit like her editor ignored the first half and made Hamilton put all the meat of the story into the second.

So, skim the first half, read the second.