KIM
LAWRENCE
Synopsis
from back of book: Set
up against her will as a potential Arabian queen for the notorious
Sheikh Karim, unworldly Eva has a plan to deter the desert king. She
will convince him she's a modern, sexually experienced woman - and
definitely not marriage material - even though she is really still a
virgin.
However,
the next thing she knows, Eva's become a bride! And her new husband
is having a startling effect on her...She finds herself increasingly
impatient; could it be that shy Eva is curious about what lies ahead
in the sheikh's marriage bed?
Stats
for my copy:
Mass market paperback, published by Harlequin Enterprises Limited,
2009; purchased at a library sale.
My
thoughts: Royalty
is not one of my favorite tropes, much less sheikhs, so I went into
this book with low expectations. Putting aside the sheikh factor, I
still would not have loved it. Every scene seemed to be so drawn out,
an exchange between the two characters that probably would have
lasted five minutes would take that many pages to get through. A
character would say something, and then one of them would be thinking
thinking thinking and in my mind I pictured the other character just
frozen in place waiting for the first character's internal monologue
to end. And at one point, the heroine puts a small dog in the pocket
of her coat and then forgets about him for pages and pages, while she
walks and then gets in a car and argues with the hero and gets out of
the car and I just can't imagine a dog lying quietly in a pocket for
all that time and I worried that she would accidentally sit on it.
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