Review: I WISHED I COULD OF GIVEN THIS BOOK 5 STARS
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2013
A very romantic tale, with a very smitten, alpha male, and a beautiful, headstrong heroine. I loved all that.  What I did not love was the fact that the heroine exercised very little self control when the hero tried & succeeded in sexually enslaving her.  That he was trying and that she responded was great.  But her total submission in this area was over the top, she became a puppet in his hands, with no will of her own.  I mean she was litarelly reduced to a sex driven creature, with a one track mind, and I don't mean just during the encounters, but all the time (24/7).  Even in the face of a powerful lustful desire for the hero's love making, I expect a strong heroine to show at least some personal discipline and no walk around in stage of desperate arousal at all times. Also there was very little description about how he felt when this was happening, except for the fact that he wanted the heroine as his bride, and therefore his behavior was OK.I also did not like where the couple would live, their "Happily Ever After", at least part of the time.  I don't like to think that the heroine is going to be in a place where she has no freedom (unless her husband intervines, and even then it is a very limited personal freedom), and where women (in my opinion) are treated as second class citizens, having to wear veils in public and not given a choice in the matter, etc., etc.  True I have read other books with this type of setting and have liked them.  But those books took place in the  past, where women had very few rights on planet earth.  However, this book takes place in the present, and therefore, it does disturb me that the heroine will be in a place where women still have no free-self-determination.  And because it is a real place, instead of a fictional country, we do not have the fantasy that all these negatives for women will change, by the heroine using her influence with her husband: The King.