Kekasih Pangeran Gurun (The Desert Prince's Mistress) (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
Lara is working at the Maraban Embassy, when she opens a letter by a woman claiming that her son Darian is the illegitimate child of the late Sheikh of Maraban. Rather than immediately reporting the letter to Prince Khalim, the current ruler (and husband of Lara's best friend), Lara decides to seek out Darian for herself to see if he's worthy - only to find that he's the most exciting, potent man she's ever met.I found the premise for this book totally ridiculous. Best friend of the princess or not, I can't imagine anyone making the initial choice that Lara did, and withholding the letter from Prince Khalim. Lara most certainly did not have the right to make that choice, and the arrogance of her, thinking that she could decide if Darian was worthy of knowing his birthright, drove me up the wall. I can absolutely understand why Darian felt so angry and betrayed for much of the book.That said, aside from her initial choice, I liked Lara quite a lot. She was assertive and a bit fiery, which I appreciated as so many English heroines seem less English Rose than wilted blossom. She did lose a bit of that fire when things started getting tough with Darian, which was a shame. Darian suffers from EHS (English Hero Syndrome), and exhibits many of the same symptoms that are typical to this condition - coldness, arrogance, game-playing, anger, a combination of lust and disdain for his partner - but he stops short of outright cruelty, and his anger is understandable - Lara DID deceive him and play God with his life, after all. There were only a few times when I outright disliked him - once when he was thinking that there was nothing more off-putting than a woman who wanted to see you too much, or one who didn't have a packed social calendar (what are we, 16?), and a couple more times when he only seemed to be interested in Lara when she played it cool - which is unusual for me, as far as Modern Romance books go.The chemistry between Darian and Lara was great, and the sex scenes were better than average for this imprint.I won't ever be a huge Sharon Kendrick fan, because I don't understand her characters. Their point-scoring, their power struggles, their lack of honesty and apparent need to play games rather than just saying what's in their hearts - these things are all totally alien to me. I can't understand the way they think and feel, or why they do the things they do, because I'm not built that way, and never will be. But I did enjoy this book, even without being able to really understand the characters' motivations. 3.5 stars, but we'll round up.
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