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The Sultan's Choice (2011)

by Abby Green(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mills & Boon

series

Sinful Desert Nights

review 1: I am not a big fan of the sheikhy lurve story but I do like AG. This one was okay, both the H and h had their issues but there was minimal drama and angst, more shy librarian h trying to fit in with manly Alpha H's world and getting some backbone while she is at it. She wasn't too juvenile and he wasn't too jerky. I do kinda wish that being introverted did not automatically make you a weak doormat in HPlandia but this book isn't too focused on the h feelings of incompetence and she does grow. The H gets off his He-man act fairly early on and you believe the relationship. All in all not bad and I would have liked it better if I actually liked sheikh stories but at least I did not have to go have a cookie in consolation.
review 2: I don't typically love Abby ... moreGreen's books as her heroes tend to be unlikable, but I really enjoyed this book. Both Sadiq and Samia were likable characters with their own emotional scars and both afraid to love. Sadiq arranges a marriage of convenience with a suitably unexciting, nondescript, meek and royal wife. He wants a bland wife who will blend into the background and make no demands on his emotions so that his life will be ordered, smoothly calm, controlled and unemotional. Little does he know that the apparently nondescript and mousy Samia will cause passion and turbulent emotions to rise in him- the very opposite of what he so carefully planned through their seemingly business-like arrangement. Abby Green's writing is evocative and pulls us into the characters' experience of being gripped by inexplicable and unwanted emotions and a sense of connection with one another, their utter confusion, frustration and anger in the process, their inner struggles and soul searching, wonderment and finally their ultimate surrender to love. I really felt involved in each of the steps each character, and especially Sadiq, undergoes in this journey. I liked how the characters each evolve, mature, heal and blossom while going through this discovery process. Ms. Green does a good job of showing Sadiq and Samia's soul-deep connection beyond the mere physical, with the physical aspect of their relationship merely being a fumbled means to understand, express and ultimately admit their emotional connection where their fear and confusion precluded them from doing so otherwise. Palpable emotions and connection with evocative writing make this an enjoyable and emotional read. This book does not have the in-your-face over-the-top drama that you will find in some of the books in this line, but I found this book to be more satisfying and enjoyable in its more understated and more complex and elegant tone, a bit like drinking velvet-smooth oak-aged whisky after a stream of tequila shots. less

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