Raffaella's Reviews > Forbidden to the Desert Prince

First of all it was boring and even if I had nothing to do I struggled to end it. I fell asleep twice in an afternoon and I don’t take naps anymore. The plot is quite common, the heroine is promised to the hero’s older brother and he has to take her to meet him. The hero and the heroine met when she was 12 and he was like 14 or some and there was this tender feeling bar attraction that, let me tell you, I found spooky since a 12 yo girl is quite a child and more than once it’s said that there was a strong attraction between them. Eek. The heroines father betrayed the hero’s family and caused a massacre of his family and his bothers imprisonment for 15 years. Now the heroine is 28 and the hero’s brother has been rescued and wants his bride to be. But of course in three days the hero and the heroine rekindle their attraction, have sex and even get married. Thank the fugg for loyalty to his brother. Luckily the brother has already found another more suitable match so everything is ok in the end but the book drags with a lot of dialogue and very few angst and chemistry. What made me rate one star was that the hero has been a manwhore and I don’t begrudge him this, after all I would have found a bit weird if he had been celibate because of a lil girl with pigtails and pimples. But the heroine became a socialite, very famous and partying and having fun with the ton of Hollywood and she is not only a virgin but also never been kissed because you know, no one could ever compare to the hero. Ok, so I know lynne Graham made the best of clumsy old spinsters who on the wrong side of 20s still haven’t had sex, but this, this was a bit much. I know that it’s a hp and it’s fiction but I want my books, even when they are cheap and short and easy, to have some semblance of consistency and reliability and no, a girl in her late 20s that doesn’t belong to some cult that doesn’t allow their women to touch other men and is all the time at parties, is beautiful, is friendly and has not some mental issue that prevents her from touching other people, is not possible in this world and in many others unknown by me that has not even kissed one single guy. I remember being a girl and not a very partying one but I even had some kisses stolen by some overeager guys so I can’t imagine how this girl has never even had some guys groping her or kissing her. Nope. Not at all. It’s science fiction not romance and unacceptable according to everyone’s standards. Only because she had to be super committed to an ex manwhore who is repeatedly said had more women he could remember. Yuck and eek. Sorry, not my thang. So one star it is.