My comments while reading this:
"I could do without the extended rape scene, then having no emotional toll to it or to the torture."
"Lots of family drama and polyamory , but where are the thrilling heroics?"
Those are good summations of my views. This seems like a character written by a man about how he imagines an ideal woman to be. All about sex, no real emotional connections (or, none that last).
Additionally, the plot really doesn't go anywhere. There's global assassinations, but they're used merely as a plot device. They aren't actually the plot. The plot is just following this woman around while she has sex with lots and lots of people. In the end, even with her rapist! COME ON. I'm getting angry just remembering.
I've liked other Heinlein, but now I have to re-think those characters. May be the women were as emotionally shallow and sex-crazed as this one. Although I do remember a plot in some of his books, so...
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