I just have a hard time getting over the whole "I'm being raped, but hey, he's the dominant" scene from the first book. That one got under my skin.

Fair enough! That's from her crappy ex-pack leader, right? Not the rape that turns her into a werewolf? I am fuzzy on the details--I haven't read it recently. If the former, then at least she bucks the whole pack mentality thing (well--except she forms herself a little pack later, of course, but doesn't seem to truck w/the same kinds of garbage).