The Golden Cage is an excellent dark thriller about bad people doing bad things. I know, I know, that might not sound like an almost five star read but it really is! I flew through this one and could not keep turning pages to find out what was going to happen next. There really were not any characters that I liked or was rooting for because they were all utterly despicable but at the same time I was very invested in Faye's journey and felt like I just had to keep reading and had to find out who survived to the end. There were only two characters that could be considered decent people, or innocent bystanders at least... the 7 year old daughter and Faye's first college boyfriend but by the end of the book both of those characters were subjected to absolutely horrible things! That's what they get for being decent people! Jokes aside, this was a top notch thriller by a clearly talented author and I highly recommend it to any Cersei Lannister fans out there. ** Side note: I'm not kidding about the content warnings here. That quarter star I knocked off was because this author really didn't hold back and some of the content was gross. I was shocked she went there and I don't get shocked very often.**