I tend to gravitate toward books with powerful lead characters and this book just did not have that. She was very passive and resigned to her situation. She was handed a crappy deck and at points she tried to make the best of it, but many other times it was Lavinia pitty party. She was very naive and sometimes that clouded her ability to put herself out there to get what she wanted. None of the characters were particularly likeable (except Mama Mae) and I had a difficult time figuring out if I was even SUPPOSED to like certain people. As I said, good book, just not my cup of tea.