Review: A sweet and funny read
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 26, 2013
This is a new take on Aladdin's Lamp, from A Thousand and One Nights. Robin is about to get married to the man she plans to spend the rest of her life with when she catches him with her cousin in flagrante delicti. Amid the whirpool of betrayal and pain she meets a genie, Zahir, who grants her three wishes. Robin opts for a body change, then decides (with Zahir's help)that she'd rather have the body she was born with, and to have a man who will love and respect her "and worthy of being called a husband". Zahir brings her a Highlander, James, taking him away from his time.All Bottled Up, written by Ms Angela Rose, is written with a lot of humour sprinkled with sizzling romance. I like Ms Rose's take on Zahir. He is hilarity with a heart. He is Robin's conscience, lifting her up when things around her are falling apart.I also like Ms Rose's play with words. For me, All Bottled Up also connoted two things. First and the more obvious is Zahir in the bottle, being woken up from his beauty sleep to grant a mortal three wishes. Second, is Robin, bottling up all of her insecurities particularly when it came to accepting and loving herself, made worse by finding her fiance and cousin together.I look forward to reading more of Ms Rose's books and humorous and loving take on fairy tales.