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If you finished it you made it much further than I did.
I started it and stopped. I hated it. ... My versions are the self-published novels, but from what I understand Random House did no editing or changes beyond that.
But it does read a lot like a fan fic to me. I'm pretty generous with my understanding when reading fan fiction because I often feel it is written more for the author than the reader. They explore their feelings or desire to see a story go in a certain direction, and they can pretty much do whatever the heck they want as far as I'm concerned. When a fan fiction ends up before my eyes I always try to find something positive to say about it because I feel like encouragement is important, even if I really hated it.
But I feel books should be written for the readers and as you said, you have some standards applied to them. Beyond problems with the characters and the story, which I could barely stomach - I had major problems with the writing.
But if that's what people want to read, hey go for it. I just chomp at the bit to scream at them to put that trash down and go find some good erotic fiction if that is what they are searching for. I hate for ~that book~ to represent the genre to the mainstream public because I just feel like it is a crappy book.
Obviously popular opinion isn't agreeing with me in this case though.
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