Review: Don't bother.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2012
This one earned two stars for the simple reason that it had an editor.Really, it was amusing but totally not worth the read. The ending is awful. The Sheikh- so basically the King- falls in love with a really young girl from Texas. She disappears when she thinks he only sees her as a possession (which he does). In three years, he cannot find her...she is living in Italy as a nanny to someone in his social sphere- so somehow she has paid for plane tickets, used her passport and there is still no trace of her?Basically, she gets pregnant and they have to get married. And they both believe it, like it's a foregone conclusion. I am old-fashioned, but that really blew the story for me. She basically only calls him again after disappearing a second time on him to say "I'm pregnant, yeah, we have to get married."So he finally gets what he wants: her. Realizes that he doesn't want her against her will. Lets her go. She puts aside her pride and confesses that she only ran because she doesn't just want to be his arm candy. He realizes that he wants her because he loves her. I will give the author points for having a hero that grows and learns something, despite that fact that it was ridiculously played out.It has all the components necessary for a short story, but I think you will regret reading it. There are better reads out there. Unless of course if this is your genre and you live for stories so far fetched that they are ridiculous - enjoy.