But most of the book's erotic content revolves around evil Isleen and her evil lovers having evil sex. Admittedly, I'm not a big fan of villain sex, though many authors use it to punch up an otherwise deadly boring manuscript. I also have a lot of trouble with Bertrice Small's depiction of women enjoying being abused and the implication that readers will like it as well. Isleen is gang-raped, beaten and sodomized, and enjoys every blissful moment. I'm not saying that writers shouldn't tackle the darker side of sex.
Many fine writers have.
It's just that Bertrice Small has this tendency to glorify the gross. Call me a dried-up old prude if you must, but this kind of stuff is just plain icky.