Title : Exposed:
The Sheikh’s Mistress
Author : Sharon Kendrick
Series : -
Genre : Romance/
Harlequin Presents
Publication Year
: 2005
Rating : 2 of 5
stars
THE HERO. . .
Sheikh Hashim Al
Aswad. Cold, ruthless, annoying, asshat, and arrogant. Usually a hero has one
or two of those trait. But this time the hero has it all. He acted so superior
because he is a sheikh, thinking that other people are below him. He treat the
heroine like a slut just because one mistake (which from my point of view is
not really a mistake). Well, he doesn’t know her reason at first, but he should
hear her explanation instead of jumping to conclusion. I really hate that
attitude, the jumping to conclusion bit, make a smart person look so stupid. And then
when they met again, which a deliberate move from him, he blackmailed her to do
the ‘job’ in order to get a revenge and to bed her. I couldn’t imagine a man
more ruthless than him. I really feel like punching him when I read the story. Apparently,
he doesn’t know the word ‘let go’, because in the course of five years he still
nurture his hatred for her. Granted, maybe that’s because he really love her
and couldn’t forget her. And he kind of doing it right in the end.
THE HEROINE. . .
Sienna Baker, a
party planner. She used to work as a receptionist at a hotel, where she met
Hashim when he had a meeting there. Her ‘mistake’ that make Hashim really hate
her was doing a nudie photos for a calendar. She did that to pay for her mother’s
surgery, not because she was hungry for fame and money. So I guess that’s not a
bad reason, which make his burst of anger is unreasonable. Her mistake, I guess,
is just that she didn’t tell Hashim from the start. But, who wants to tell that
they did a nudie photos in the past? Even when the reason is justifiable, that’s
not something you would proud of. And to tell them to someone like Hashim, yes
I can see her reluctant. What I really like about this heroine is her
self-restrain. She can restrain her emotion, and also she doesn’t too proud to accept
what she want.
THE STORY. . .
Five years ago
Sienna Baker met Sheikh Hashim Al Aswad when he had a meeting at the hotel
where she work. They attracted to each other, and so the usual things entail. But
then Hashim know about nudie photos of Sienna, and so he left her. Now he is
back and plan to get his revenge. He blackmailed her to plan a party for him,
when actually he just want to bed her. In short, now they realize that they
love each other. But it’s not that simple, because Hashim is a sheikh, and he
had obligations to his country, and a woman with Sienna’s past would not deemed
as a good wife for a sheikh. I like the epilogue when we told that Sienna’s
journey as Hashim’s wife isn’t a smooth one, but in the end the people can
accept her. It’s kind of hard, I guess, to accept her past in a conservative
country like that.
THE QUOTE. . .
‘People are a lot more than
they appear to be on the surface. Not cardboard cut-outs but living and
breathing flesh and blood, with flaws and strengths all their own.’
Sienna Baker
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