A good story, but very little genuine consensual sex between the hero and heroine. He was intent on breaking her, while he was equally intent on loving her. As a result, there are two sexual encounters in the entire book where the heroine is consensual from the beginning, and more than I care to recall that are truly forced and unconsensual. The book is memorable to me for the exact reason that it disturbed me greatly when I read it, and disturbs me to this day. As with most women, rape is an issue close to my attention.
Rape is about domination and control.
It is not about love, it is not about pleasure, it is not about giving, it is not about, or mutual respect. All of which are prominent factors that have brought romance fiction the large audiance it enjoys. For that principle alone, I dislike rape in romance novels. But perhaps it isn't the rape so much that bothers readers, but the fact that the heroines ignore, disregard, and otherwise forgive the behavior in the end, because love is stronger than all mistreatment at the hands of the beloved. That kind of capitulation bothers me more than the act itself.