The Sheik & The Princess in Waiting

Rating:
Summary: Three Stars
Review: Emma Kennedy returns home to find men from the State Department in her apartment with an invitation from the King of Bahania to spend two weeks in his country where Emma learns that the guy she met during college was in fact Prince Reyhan and that they were married and had been for six years. Reyhan had to 'fess up to the marriage when his father started hinting that he marries.
The King has decided to meet Emma and after the two weeks he'll grant them a divorce. Reyhan can't wait for the two weeks to go by so he won't have to admitt that he loves Emma.
For six years Emma had no idea she was married she though the 'ceremony' was fake.
I gave it three stars because I liked the idea of not knowing she was married to a prince for six years and how the King's obviously trying to play the matchmaker.
It was fustrating how her parents had known she was married and decided not to tell her because they didn't think she was old enough. Her parents were so irritating that you kept waiting for Emma to rip into them for making decisions for her that they had no right to do. They claimed they weren't sure whether the marriage license Emma showed them was real or not. Her parents were so irritating that you just wanted to strangle them. Just when you thought Emma was finally going to stand up to them it fizzled away. Which I thought was a blot against her own charactor. I kept waiting for her backbone to grow in which never happened.
Reyhan was irritating on his high horse not wanting to be weak
because he loved Emma but was (like her parents) trying to make all the decisions for her that you keep waiting for her to stand up to him but once again fizzled.
Since I didn't read the books before this it I was a little out of the loop with the other charactors. The supposely bad dudes didn't come off being as terrifying as they should of. I would of liked the kidnapping to of last a little longer so that it would of added to Reyhan's worry and fear for the woman he loved leading to him to realize he loves her and can't live without her.
I also would of liked that when he's wounded and it just him and Emma to of lasted longer to add more to the reconcilation and romance.