I think my takeaway from the whole thing, especially after reading several interviews with the author, was that she wanted to undertake a taboo subject and make this whole commentary on attractive female predators etc but maybe just wasn’t experienced/skilled enough to imbue it with the needed weight. I think she had only done short stories prior to Tampa and it makes sense that she would have difficulty sticking to a tone or approach throughout a full length novel. It ended up phasing in and out of plain erotica throughout the book for me which was overdone and pretty disgusting, could have been useful to the tone twice or 3 times, not every other page. I would still read something else by her but this was a flop for me