Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: what could have been a great love story...

turned out to be a painful and abusive dud. When I first picked up the book I was really excited. I felt for the heroine because she was in an abusive relationship and it was obvious that she wanted a better life for herself. As I read on, in steps darkly handsome Stephen, accusing her of poisoning his brother and wisks her off to his home to avenge his brother. What turns out to be a revenge plot turns into lust and want between the two characters and they declare their love. The gang rape and the hero "prostituting" himself in the name of love left me cold and disappointed because what could have been a grand romance turned out to be a pathetic, twisted mish mash that made the hero and heroine totally unbelievable. The ending would have been kleenex worthy had the middle of the book been presented better.