Review: Slow Building Romance, Very Sexy
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2012
This novella is set in a small Nigerian village, where we find Adaku, in love with a prince, married against her will to another man, Obinna.Over the course of a year, as Obinna treats her with courtesy and kindness, and refuses to even touch her against her will, Adaku comes to respect, be attracted to, and even love her husband, just as he is giving up hope that he will win her over.As an American, I struggled with the names a bit - my stupid mind kept converting Obinna to Obama.  As a virtual tourist, I would have liked to have seen more of the day-to-day life in the village.  They slept on pallets on the floor, had an indoor bathroom with apparently a bathtub - but was it just a bathing room, or was it a "bathroom" as an American would think of one, with a commode and sink?  Couldn't tell.That said, the romance was sweet, the jealousy that flared for both of them, believable, and their consummation was sexy and skillfully written.  I'm very much looking forward to reading His Strength, the next book in the Men of Valor series by Ms. Taye.