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Summary: Worth a few chuckles!
Review: If you enjoy Susan Mallery's writing, then you will love this one!! A under-appreciated, virgin princess runs away from home, is rescued by the fiance she doesn't know she has and installed in his desert fortress as his slave and the story takes off from there... this is the first in a new trillogy by Ms. Mallery and it sets the stage for the other 2 wonderful little books. I'm sure you'll find all three a entertaining read as I did.
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Summary: Challenges to being royal and overcoming it to find love...
Review: This book had a good beginning and end but gets a little too slow in the middle. It has some good twists & turns to keep you interested in the story. Prince Kardal and Princess Sabra meet each other under unusual circumstances and get off to a bad start with each other. Although he knows who she is immediately she has no idea who he is and Prince Kardal keeps her in the dark about their betrothal throughout most of the book while they go through a series of misunderstandings.Prince Kardal is ruler of a mythical secret city called the "City of Thieves" filled with stolen treasures from many countries around the world. Princess Sabra is the daughter of a King from a neighboring nation to the City of Thieves that works closely with Prince Kardal. She was raised in America, after her parents had a disasterous short marriage, with her mother and only spent summers in the palace. Her half brothers and father ignore her because they assume she is a wild woman without morals just like her mother which isn't true. Princess Sabra's father arranges a marriage with Prince Kardal without her consent and when he tries to tell her the details she gets so upset that she runs away to find the mythical city she's always dreamed of finding. The story begins with him finding her lost in the desert. He decides to play a game with her and make her his slave while keeping her in the City of Thieves. Once they start to get to know each other things pick up but when Princess Sabra tells him she loves him he doesn't respond back so she runs away again. In the end he admits how he feels with the help of his mother, her father (who he tells off for neglecting Princess Sabra all her life) & his father (who has ignored him all his life.)
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Summary: Challenges to being royal and overcoming it to find love...
Review: This book had a good beginning and end but gets a little too slow in the middle. It has some good twists & turns to keep you interested in the story. Prince Kardal and Princess Sabra meet each other under unusual circumstances and get off to a bad start with each other. Although he knows who she is immediately she has no idea who he is and Prince Kardal keeps her in the dark about their betrothal throughout most of the book while they go through a series of misunderstandings. Prince Kardal is ruler of a mythical secret city called the "City of Thieves" filled with stolen treasures from many countries around the world. Princess Sabra is the daughter of a King from a neighboring nation to the City of Thieves that works closely with Prince Kardal. She was raised in America, after her parents had a disasterous short marriage, with her mother and only spent summers in the palace. Her half brothers and father ignore her because they assume she is a wild woman without morals just like her mother which isn't true. Princess Sabra's father arranges a marriage with Prince Kardal without her consent and when he tries to tell her the details she gets so upset that she runs away to find the mythical city she's always dreamed of finding. The story begins with him finding her lost in the desert. He decides to play a game with her and make her his slave while keeping her in the City of Thieves. Once they start to get to know each other things pick up but when Princess Sabra tells him she loves him he doesn't respond back so she runs away again. In the end he admits how he feels with the help of his mother, her father (who he tells off for neglecting Princess Sabra all her life) & his father (who has ignored him all his life.)
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Summary: A variation on the sheik theme
Review: This story is about a sheik (duh) an American-raised middle-eastern princess, and a lost city. When Princess Sabra set out to find the lost City of Thieves, and prove to her father that she had a brain and knew how to use it, she got completely lost. Prince Kardal Khan rescued her, and took her as his slave, locking her away in the same hidden city that she had been seeking -- without telling her that her father had engaged her to him, as was long-standing tradition between their countries. The characters in the story are fascinating, and it's very nice to see them both from the same basic culture. Both characters come to understand each other through Sabrina's captivity -- then Kardal's father comes into the picture, further binding them together. Maybe not earth-shatteringly spectacular, bit the story was defintely a keeper. Mallery did a good job with this one!
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Summary: Great fun! Very highly recommended
Review: When he discovers the woman wandering alone in the desert following a sand storm, Prince Kardal Khan recognizes her immediately as Sabrina Johnson - otherwise known as Princess Sabra, King Hassan of Bahania's only daughter. She's everything he expected: willful, difficult, and spoiled. She's also his fiancée, as marriage has been arranged to promote an alliance between their people. Trapped between tradition and progress, Kardal struggles with modernity while still respecting his people's ancient ways. His assumes that his proposed wife neither respects the ancient ways, nor lives the exemplary western life he would prefer. Unfortunately, he's bound to her just the same. But she obviously doesn't know who he is, and Kardal prefers not to enlighten her right away. Sabrina had been certain she could find the City of Thieves when she left the palace alone. Raised in California with her mother, she'd spent summers in Bahania, supposedly to learn the ways of his people. But her father ignored her, as did her brothers when they weren't teasing her unmercifully. Sabrina can't help wondering if the desert troll she's supposed to marry wouldn't be preferable to being tied and blindfolded by this desert kidnapper. She's stunned to learn their destination is the legendary City of Thieves. Shocked by the city's water supply and impressive castle, she's even more startled to learn that her captor is none other than Kardal, the Prince of Thieves. Opulence surrounds her, and if Kardal has it way, decadence as well. After all, her antics in California are well documented, and it's never occurred to him that she truly might be an innocent. Susan Mallery creates fabulous fantasy material in THE SHEIK AND THE RUNAWAY PRINCESS. The characterizations are at once outlandish and believable. The fiery heroine finds the prince of her dreams, despite slave bracelets and an unearned poor reputation. The sexy hero's path to believing in love proves to be impetuous, challenging and absolutely delightful as he goes from finding Sabrina lacking, to wanting her with all his heart. Indeed, Kardal plans to "tame" the princess; he grows to appreciate her instead. With an interesting plot and fabulous characterizations, THE SHEIK AND THE RUNAWAY PRINCESS is a keeper. Very highly recommended.
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