Ann Rice was high on something when she wrote this book, it's extreme BDSM on crystal meth: human ponies, public spanking, everyone is checking everyone's anuses, vaginas and balls... There is too much spanking and Ann Rice keeps using the same vocabulary and the same description over and over again, it becomes unbelievably annoying. I have read amateur erotica dozens of times better than this book, but I am intrigued by how it will end, so I will finish the last book.