Ταχίρ: Ο Επαναστάτης Διάδοχος - Ο θρόνος του Κουσάι, #4

Dark-Hearted Desert Men #4

by Annie West, Σταματία Τσακάλη (Translator)

Οι φήμες γύρω από τον εξόριστο πρίγκιπα Ταχίρ Αλ’Ραμίζ έχουν οργιάσει! Αφού εθεάθη να προκαλεί πανδαιμόνιο σ’ ένα από τα πιο αριστοκρατικά καζίνα του Μόντε Κάρλο, στη συνέχεια έφυγε για το Κουσάι, για να παραστεί στη στέψη του αδερφού του.
Όταν όμως ελήφθη ένα απεγνωσμένο σήμα κινδύνου και βρέθηκαν τα συντρίμμια του ελικοπτέρου του Ταχίρ, όλοι υπέθεσαν το χειρότερο… Ώσπου εκείνος εμφανίστηκε αναπάντεχα, χωρίς να δώσει καμιά εξήγηση για το πώς κατάφερε να επιζήσει!

Τώρα μια μυστηριώδης, πολύ όμορφη νέα κοπέλα έχει εγκατασταθεί στο παλάτι. Από όλο και περισσότερα χείλη ακούγεται το ενδεχόμενο μιας εγκυμοσύνης… Μήπως τελικά οι χαμένες μέρες του ατίθασου πρίγκιπα στην έρημο κρύβουν κάποιο φλογερό ειδύλλιο;

Genres: Harlequin, Harlequin Presents, Romance, Contemporary Romance, Harlequin Romance, Hqn, Royalty

159 pages, Paperback

First published June 22, 2010

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Hello! I love writing passionate, intense love stories about sexy alpha men and the women who are their perfect match. Look out for my books with Harlequin (Presents) or Mills & Boon (Modern/Sexy) and for my indie stories, full of passion and intense emotion with a touch of glamour. My latest stories are my Hot Italian Nights series including 'Bound to the Italian Boss' June '17, 'The Italian's Bold Reckoning' July '17, 'At the Italian's Bidding' August '17 and 'Falling for the Brooding Italian' September '17.
Yes, I do like a dark, handsome hero!

You can catch up with my news at www.annie-west.com (where you can also sign up for my exclusive reader newsletter with giveaways and behind the scenes info). I'm on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/anniewest.au... and I adore hearing from readers. You can also contact me at annie(at)annie-west(dot)com

I live with my family at beautiful Lake Macquarie on the east Coast of Australia and my favourite things when not writing are good food, good company, great books, getting outside in nature and travel.

Bookwise, I'm a multi USA Today bestselling author with millions of books sold, in English as well as in lots of other languages. I've won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award and the Romantic Book of the Year (Romance Writers of Australia). One of my favourite review quotes is from Romantic Times which said in its review of The Sheikh's Ransomed Bride 'This is what a love story could be.'.

Reviews

[Jenny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book. Hero had a horrible childhood and was abused as a child by his father. My heart broke for him. He deserved to be loved and he finally found happiness with our sweet loving heroine. Gotta love a tortured hero!

[Fanniny Moreno Zavaleta · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was an interesting plot but his ass-holeness rested points.
And that's all I'm saying because I can't remember details 🙈

[Mender · Rating 1 out of 5]

Can I introduce you to my least favourite trope? A man and a woman meet. They begin to fall precipitously in love. Usually because, heaven forbid, the guy is actually nice and attentive and seems interested in her. Then, AFTER he takes her virginity:
He reminds himself that he's a terrible cad.
He sees her falling in love with him.
He *regretfully*, *painfully*, *sufferingly* decides "Annalisa would not be a casualty of his vices. She'd forget about him and get on with her life with never a backward glance.
"He'd cure her of her romantic daydreams.
"He owed her that much." pp67

Well. That's great, skippy. In your arab country that prizes virgins so highly, it's really fucking generous of you to decide not to fuck up her life by letting her be in a loving, consensual relationship. One that even if it doesn't last she doesn't regret.

That would be awful.

Instead, why don't you treat her like shit? Make her regret it right now, and look back thinking how pathetic she is for not having kept her virtue and for having trusted someone intimately who turned out to be a fuckwit.

When did this become a thing? How does this keep showing up in books? Is it like the bad boy trope where in fiction we hope we can redeem him? That in spite of him hating and hurting everybody else he sees he will love and protect *you* because you're special.

Is this the version where you were treated like shit by someone you trusted, but it was just his way of protecting you? *Really* he just didn't know how to express how much he loved you which is why when he sees that you don't regret having slept with him he:
1. Bitches about the food you made him
2. Calls your sex 'over-exertion' and says he feels like death.
3. Suddenly recovers his memory after having had convenient amnesia
4. Whinges that staying with you made him miss a party, and leers at you saying he enjoys a good party (with prostitutes).
5. Commands "Don't touch me" when you go to help him, in the tone of voice "As if she weren't worthy to breathe the same air as him." pp70
6. Rolls his eyes in disgust at you.
and then 7. Refuses to even look at you, saying "You can't imagine how much" he can't wait to get away from you.

Well, what a fabulous morning after! Just what I want in my romances!

And gee, you're so lucky to be pregnant to this guy. This is surely a happily ever after waiting to happen.

[Roub · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tahir was besotted wid Annalisa though he himself did not realise it. she nursed him back to life and fell in love wid the amnesic stranger. he was mean to her after they spent their first night together bcoz he wanted to distance himself from her, he thought he did not deserve someone pure and terrific like her. he was mean but never cruel and more than made up for it in the last half of the book.

[willaful · Rating 2 out of 5]

Tortured bad boy prince/sheikh (they seem to be interchangeable here) is rescued by sweet innocent girl, knocks her up, then has to mess with her mind a bit before they can admite they're in love and be happy. An okay read, but never got very exciting. There were a number of continuity errors.

[Jacqueline J · Rating 2 out of 5]

A pretty basic HP. This was a made up desert country and this guy one of the princes. It was interesting that the heroine was not an English girl but half Dutch half a member of the made up country's people who had never been out of the country although she was raised basically as a western woman. There was the requisite amount of misunderstandings etc. Decent but nothing I would gush about.

[Natasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tahir, black sheep of the royal family of Qusay, was heading to his brother's coronation when the helicopter he was flying crashed in the desert 🏜 due to a sandstorm. Injured, looking for food, water and shelter he came upon Annalisa, right before his injuries sent him into black oblivion. When he came to, he has no recollection of his past with the exception of his name.
Annalisa is in the Qusay desert to fulfill her father's last dying wish. After she found Tahir, she nursed him back to health. They had an explosive one night stand. The next day he told her he remembers who is and he wants nothing to do with her. Rescue came for Tahir to take him back to the city and Annalisa remained in the desert.

Two months later, she finds herself at the palace gate with news for Tahir- she is pregnant. Which is when she learns of Tahir's identity - he is the new king of Qusay.

Exotic location ✔
Sovereign king ✔
Commoner heroine ✔
Royal baby ✔
Hot 🔥 chemistry ✔

Tahir is a broken hero battling demons from his past. Annalisa is a commoner trying to move on from the death of her beloved father. Only Annalisa can soothe Tahir's fears. And Tahir only wants annalisa as his queen and wife. Together they make a formidable power couple.

This book ✔ off all the elements of a great royal romance. The minute details, description and writing is superb. The middle eastern flair. And Arabic language. All combined to produce a great story. 👍

[Susan in Perthshire · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Annie West’s books. She creates such fabulous, engaging characters and places them in exciting settings and then takes them on a journey of discovery and romance which just satisfies my emotional need for a well written romance. Tahir is the most interesting of his brothers and I have enjoyed his and Annalisa’s story so much more than theirs.

A helicopter crash in the desert results in his rescue by Annalisa. He has amnesia. They have a beautifully described romantic ONS. He recovers his memory, decides he’s no good for Anneliese and rejects her, rather cruelly.
A couple of months later she turns up pregnant and the rest of the story deals with that and the ultimate happy ending for them.

This is really well written, emotionally engaging and a very satisfying read.

[AelixRage · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading my fair share of sheikh's and deserts, I'd dare say that this book, as simple as it is, was to my liking.

The hero was not a hardcore alpha male, he wasn't raging against his emotions like most, and he wasn't at all bristling with indignation at the possibility of falling in love with the heroine. I liked him.

As for the heroine, well, what can I say? I love how Annie West writes them. They're not the weak, doormats that most HP seem to present. They're not entirely "weak" and they actually have pride and personality, which I like. Pushover heroines make me cringe.

All in all, it was a nice story. Not a most original plot, but it was all good. :)

[RomLibrary · Rating 3 out of 5]

Speculation surrounding exiled rebel Prince Tahir Al'Ramiz has reached fever pitch! After being spotted causing mayhem in an exclusive Monte Carlo casino, Tahir decides to fly home for his brother's coronation. But when the remains of his helicopter are discovered, the worst is assumed.... Until he comes back from the dead, with no explanation as to how he survived! Now a mysterious beauty has moved into the palace. Rumors of a pregnancy abound.... Could it be that this notorious playboy prince's lost days in the desert camouflaged a secret affair

[Lynsey A · Rating 2 out of 5]

Got 2 stars because it was a bit boring in parts. Decent enough ending to the series but I liked the others in the series better.

[Lynn Raye Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great book by Annie West! She writes delicious sheikhs!

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5-4 stars

Going to try to keep this as brief as possible, but as you know if you've read my reviews that once I get started then I just can't stop and keep going, but we'll see. Let's get started.

First of all I wavered in what rating I wanted to give this book, and kind of went back and forth because there were aspects of this book I liked then other things I didn't quite care for. Hence the above rating with the range of 3.5 to 4 stars despite the fact the star rating is a four.

I will say I liked this book. I didn't love it nor was a blown away by it like I usually am by Annie West books, who I love as an author by the way. Just there was a spark missing for me that are usually in her books that keep me totally enthralled in her story, her world, the romance and the characters that makes me come back time and time again, and never tire of it. Plus just the emotional stories are so great and satisfying and very heart felt yet gut wrenching at the same time. I usually feel everything that the characters are going through and it touches my heart or it punches me in the gut until I am breathless and completely consumed by it all. That's why I love Annie West as a writer, but like I said this one didn't quite hit the mark for me, nor make much of an emotional impact like some of her other stories I have read in the past. It didn't mean that the story or the book was bad, but it wasn't as impactful or at least it wasn't to me. But it was likable and an enjoyable book to read, and definitely not the worst book I have read.

This book was part of a mini-series called, Dark-Hearted Desert Man , which featured the story about three brothers and a cousin, and the country of Quasay, with the fore mention country needing a new King to rule over its people. Each alpha male had their chance to rule with each given it up because the women that they fell in love with weren’t acceptable to be the Queen of Quasay so they gave it up. With the exception of Tahir, the hero in this story, but more because he had no choice in the matter. It was him or not one. And he stepped up and decided to do his story and it followed his story to the throne as well as his love story with Annalisa. So that was what this mini-series was about the road of the new ruler and the love of their lives. This book was the last in the series with Tahir now having become the defacto ruler, even though he didn’t want it but didn’t anyway out of duty. I read book number one Wedlocked: Banished Sheikh, Untouched Queen over two years ago, and have yet to read the other two in the series. So basically I have read the book ends of the series, and I don’t remember too much about book number one since it has been so long since I read it, but I got the jist of it from reading this one and I kind of had a vague recollection of what it was about and the story of Zafir. So I’m kind of all over the place with this series since I have read it out of order, and that might have deterred me a bit, and not quite connecting to it because I have yet to read book two and three. Maybe that would have made a difference of why I didn’t love this book.

My expectations for the book may have been a little skewed because from what I read from the back blurb I thought I would be getting something a little different than what was executed on the page. With that being the case, I thought that the book was going to go in a different direction or it would have seemed from the back blurb, and was kind disappointed that it didn’t go the way I thought. Not that the whole synopsis was misleading just maybe the second paragraph, which could totally be my fault and based on my own interpretations. Because the second paragraph was very much interpretation because as I reread now I do find that I could see where this came from. It was just unexpected. I read wrong and with my set idea in my mind, I just had a totally different view of how it was going to play out and go on. Again my fault but it definitely made me view the book different because of those set expectation and delineate my joy of the book. In fact the synopsis, reading it again, was very vague, I was one that filled in the blanks before I even turned to page one, so again that skewed my view of the book and made me have a less that favorable view at some parts.

First of all, one of the reason that I wasn’t as fond of this book as I was of other Annie West books was because of the beginning. The beginning just felt very choppy to me, and I felt like I was kind of jostled around from place to place until I was all over the place. It didn’t quite flow for me. Even though it was choppy, I understood why it was written that way. First off it was setup for the story as well as Tahir circumstances in the world as well as how Annalisa came into his life, and how she cared for him when he was gravely injured from the helicopter crash. Secondly why it was so choppy in the beginning was because of Tahir’s mental state at the time of the book. He was all over the place and had mixed feelings of returning home despite the fact that his abusive father, who exiled him was dead, but that didn’t mean he relished the feeling of coming home after being away from it for eleven years. But he knew that his brother needed him and wanted to come home so he decided to do so, but still being emotionally torn by it all. So when he went up in that helicopter, which he was flying, he wasn’t in the right mental state and didn’t concentrate on what he was doing, which later lead to his crash. He was nearly dead, but wound up surviving and making it until he came into Annalisa’s camp where she nursed him back to health. But more of the choppiness came into from the crash to when he landed at her camp was because he kept passing out from the pain of his injuries. Half the time he didn’t know up from down or where he was or even who was, but was in a great deal of pain and dealing with trauma not only physically but emotionally because he was having nightmares, which he believed were very much real. Hence the story not flowing as much because it reflected his mental state at the time so I understood why Annie West did what she did while writing, but I didn’t like it and just felt really disoriented by it all and not feeling the smoothness of it all. It was kind hard to get through at the time and did have me feel like the story was stopping and starting instead of just flowing like I want my stories to be doing. So that was a bit of a turn off.

Now this paragraph might seem a little contradictory but I am going to try to explain as much as I can what I mean. The issue with the chemistry between Tahir and Annalisa, which was there but I wasn’t consumed by like other Harlequin Presents couples I have read in the pasts with Annie West’s couples being very much the example by that. Like I said the chemistry was there, and the attraction was there and I could understand why they were drawn to each other. Tahir finally had the loving touch of a woman, who was nursing him and helping him getting better from his serious wounds. In Annalisa’s case, it was connection. She always felt like an outsider being that she was half Western and half Quasi (aka Middle Eastern with strict views of women in society and very oppressive for them). So the pull was there for them, and as more time went by I could see them getting closer and closer until the inevitable conclusion came to pass. And it was a built up over time to show not only their emotional closeness but the fact that he was getting better more and more with each day. Now personally, I would have liked to see it built up and little bit more or a little bit longer and heighten my anticipation for them doing the deed. But I felt like as soon as he was better they just hopped in the sack and that was it. I wanted see more of their attraction yet denial of it, I think it would have made it hotter between them and made me feel more I was drawn into their passion for one another. I would have been able to feel it more and be more engage with it. I just thought it happened a little bit too fast. Though I don’t deny that they had chemistry because it was there from the moment that she touched him, on both sides, but I would have liked to see more of the denial and torture over the denial and just all that lovely angst that went along with it. That would have gripped more I think. However, I do understand why it had to happen so fast because there was only a short amount of time where they were alone in the desert and it had to happen sooner rather than later so that the baby could come into play and they could once again meet again and be bound for life because of the child, or that was the excuse that came.

On the other hand, once they return from the desert and were reunited again a month later when Annalisa came to tell Tahir she was pregnant, that was when I felt more of the chemistry and was drawn into it. From the second half on, I was more consumed not only with their chemistry, but the story as well. But the chemistry was hot at that point and I could feel it ooze off the pages when they were at the palace and kept on bumping into each other. Then my heart rate went up and mouth ran dry, and big reason for that was because it was drawn out, building the anticipation. They didn’t give into their attraction right away even though while acknowledge to themselves that they wanted the other in their arms again and have those steamy, loving moments together. The denial aspect was there and added to the angst, which therefore gave it a much needed edge that was missing from the first half. Plus all the emotions that were under the surface. After all their parting in the desert wasn’t exactly fairytale with Tahir being cruel to be kind, thereby pushing Annalisa away and having Annalisa question why she gave into him in the first place. It made her question herself quite a bit, but her body still wanted him even though she didn’t understand why especially after the way he treated her. So there were some strong undercurrents going on, and I really liked seeing that and feeling that. That gave me the emotional punch I needed plus it just made their chemistry all the more sizzling and palatable. And I couldn’t wait to see what would happen once they gave in again to their desires. I liked the second half’s progression. It was edgier.

Now love scene number one was good and passionate and showed that there was something between them, but the second one was awesome. I just absolutely loved that scene in the last third of the book because it just was so meaningful yet sweet and tender yet very hot as well. I could feel the emotions pouring off that scene and was just beautiful written because I could tell that the connection that they had for one another. They needed other and not just physically but emotionally as well. I loved that scene. It was just so good. I could feel everything and it was heighten more I think than scene one because it felt more was at stake for them. One thing that added to the tension was the denial aspect and they resisted temptation for a good long while before giving into their needs for one another. But another thing that was there and what made the scene feel so desperate and show why they both needed this was because there was a life and death event that happened and there was a time when he couldn’t find her. He thought he lost her, and he didn’t want to loose her, and with that event he came to realize that and just how important she was to him. So when he found her, he couldn’t help himself but cling onto her and hold her tight and refused to let her go. He needed to have her close, and he never wanted to relive that moment that he would ever be without her again. And she felt the scene. And there was just so much going on in that scene and it was really beautiful. It really felt like true love making, and it felt very real. That was one of my favorite scenes in the whole book.

The second half of the book just felt so different for me and was really the reason why I became engrossed in the story and liked it and rated it higher than I would have if it had stuck more or less to the lines of the first half of the book. The reason being the edge that the book had in the second half. It just had so much more angst going on, and hurt feelings on her side which added another layer to the story both emotionally and otherwise. Just that was when the sucker punch moments came. Just it had everything that I love in a good romance. The angst. The misunderstandings. The feels. The passion. The growth of their relationship as well as them individually. Plus add an event that seemed to be the turning point in their relationship then the story became really powerful and more real with more feels going on. I wished there was a little more of this and less of the beginning or at least tightened up to get to the good stuff, which was the second half.

Character-wise. I really did like Tahir, though didn’t like what he did in order to push Annalisa away, because there was just so much going on with him. He was an emotionally and physically scarred man who needed the love of a good woman to heal him. I like seeing brokeness in characters and then are later healed by love and Tahir was no exception. I also liked the fact that he cared about Annalisa right away and believed she deserved more than the broken man that he was, who didn’t know if he could love or give love to someone like Annalisa. Even though he didn’t believe it or did things that weren’t right, in all honesty he was a good man. And a man who just wanted to do the right thing by Annalisa, his brothers, and his people, and I really liked him. Even though he was a playboy, he wasn’t typical one because he was getting sick of playing that game and held no desire for him anymore or having available woman just throw theirselves at him. He became bored with them and the lifestyle. He didn’t come alive again until he met Annalist and finally he knew what want and need was again. He could feel again. Thanks to her. I just really liked seeing his growth as well as his growing love for Annalisa, which felt genuine and was very beautiful to witness.

With Annalisa. I liked her, and I liked that in the second half that she didn’t give in right away to Tahir. She wasn’t my favorite heroine that I have ever read about, but she was very likable and I could see her struggle in trying to find her way in the world and kind of feeling like an outsider. And being that she had that experience all her life, she could connect with Tahir that was because he was an outsider from his family for so long, which made them a great match. Aside from that I don’t have much to say about her. She was just a nice heroine.

Again the story didn’t quite have the wow factor, but I will say that the second half was better than the first. I understand the first was just all setup for the rest of the story, but it still felt disjointed and threw off my groove. The story needed to find its footing before it started getting better. I wanted angst all the way through not just the second half. I wanted to be gutted a little bit more and I got touches of that here and there, but I just wished it was more or amplified in the least. Just I needed that extra oomph that would have put it over the top then I might have enjoyed it more. Or maybe if my expectations were different then maybe my whole view would have been different. So that could have clouded my judgment.

It was an enjoyable read but not my favorite book of all time or of Annie West’s book. I will still read her in the future and look forward to it. Just this one for me wasn’t one of her best, and I have so many more favorites of hers that I probably compared to this one, which was probably another reason that this book didn’t stun me like some of her others have done in the past. And I have been stunned and enthralled and in love with other books that she has written in the past. This just wasn’t one of them.

[Carole · Rating 1 out of 5]

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Double chronique
Me voilà de nouveau plonger dans un nouveau Diadème composé de deux histoires avec des personnages en lien avec la royauté. Autant dire des romances que j'affectionne particulièrement. Le premier ne m'avait pas totalement convaincu alors j'attendais de voir celui-ci. Ces deux nouvelles histoires ont un autre point commun : un bébé. Pas forcément ce que je recherche mais j'étais curieuse de voir ce que cela allait donner. Deux scènes, deux ambiances. Je n'ai pas aimé la première, mais j'ai adoré la seconde !

. • . • . • .

L'enfant du roi

La première histoire : L'enfant du roi, débute par un accident. Le prince, et futur roi se retrouve en plein milieu du désert et perd la mémoire de façon temporaire. Il est secouru par l'héroïne, Annalisa. L'essentiel de l'histoire se déroule dans ce désert et donc sans aucun autre personnage. Une sorte de huis-clos qui accentue la proximité entre nos deux personnages. Rapidement ils vont craquer l'un pour l'autre et comme l'indique le résumé et le titre, l'héroïne tombe enceinte avant de retourner à la vie "normale".

Je l'avoue, je n'ai pas du tout accroché aux deux personnages. L'héroïne n'a pas su me convaincre, parfois trop naive et fleur bleu elle m'a donné la sensation d'être uniquement soumise durant la majorité de l'histoire. Le personnage masculin, quant à lui est trop dans le contrôle, à tout décider et notamment dès qu'il l'a engrossé. Et puis, il ne pense qu'avec ce qu'il a sous la ceinture. En plein désert, sans souvenirs de qui il est, cela m'a paru un peu too much. Ce qui fait que son comportement m'a plus énervé qu'autre chose.

Je n'ai pas été séduite par leur histoire d'amour malheureusement, et le retour à la normale après le désert n'a fait qu'accentuer ce sentiment. A vrai dire je n'ai cessé de lever les yeux au ciel. Il décide, elle obéit. Et le petit chamboulement survient pour lui faire accepter la situation comme une lettre à la poste n'a rien changé.

. • . • . • .
Un bébé au château

En revanche, la seconde histoire : Un bébé au château m'a complètement séduite ! Tout d'abord nous avons une héroïne bien différente des trois dernières. Katianna est une princesse. Voilà des années que ses parents ont conclu un mariage avec le prince de Nabotavia. Mais la jeune femme n'a aucunement l'intention d'épouser cet inconnu. Elle compte devenir photographe et décide de se rendre au château pour annuler leurs fiançailles. Mais une chose en entrainant une autre, elle se retrouve à devenir la nounou d'un bébé abandonné aux portes du château et un prince qui ne sait pas qui elle est réellement.

Le quiproquos de départ m'a clairement de suite séduite. Il faut dire la situation a de quoi alléger l'ambiance. Ajouté à cela une héroïne qui ne mâche pas ses mots et ne tombe pas en pamoison devant le prince. Elle va même jusqu'à lui dire ses quatre vérités ! Quelle bouffée d'air frais ! De plus, le fait qu'elle cache son identité, ajoute un plus à l'histoire.

Du côté du prince, j'ai là aussi bien accroché. Il est certes un play-boy notoire en apparence mais on le découvre véritablement au fil des pages et j'ai apprécié en apprendre plus sur son passé, sa famille et ses difficultés et doutes. Il est attentif et attachant, tout en ayant une bonne dose de charme.

La relation ne donne pas l'impression d'aller trop vite. Du moins c'est mon ressenti. Pourtant, comme la précédente, cela se déroule sur une courte durée. Mais ici, l'héroïne est bien décidée à mener ses rêves jusqu'au bout et ne pas abandonner parce qu'un riche et beau prince lui fait les yeux doux. Leur relation est plus développée et profonde et m'a énormément plu. D'ailleurs, je suis curieuse car d'autres tomes existent sur ses frères et sœurs.

. • . • . • .

En conclusion, j'ai beaucoup aimé Un bébé au château. C'est totalement le genre d'histoire que j'adore. Des piques entre les héros, de la royauté et un peu de magie dans l'air. Ni plus, ni moins. J'ai passé un super moment avec celle-ci. Quant à la première, je vais rapidement l'oublier !

[Patty Duplechin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Prince Tahir is heading for his brother’s coronation. He crashes his helicopter. Annalisa finds him walking in the desert where she is staying. She tends to his injures. He’s finally taken to the host where he finds out he’s the new King. Annalisa is expecting his heir. Will he accept he could be a father and even a husband. For the sake Of their child, she agrees to marry the King. Will they fall in love? Will he realize he’s worthy of love? Will he realize he is not his father? Awesome read. I love Annie West books

[*CJ* · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Scandal: His Majesty's Love-Child" is the story of Annalisa and Tahir.

Scarred hero, caring heroine, a desert storm and a one night stand while she saves his life, an accidental pregnancy, loads of pushing away, derision and family drama leading to a HEA.

It was OK overall.

Safe
2/5

[Aivee · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my all time favs ♥️
I love the heroine 😊

[Sabina Alilovic · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book :)

[Lucy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Annie has written a wonderful book for the spirited Annalisa and jaded Tahir.
She has writing flair that transports you to the desert with Annalisa, Tahir and a baby goat that completely engrosses you into the story right from the beginning.

Tahir had a brutal history with his father who has just died, returning him to his birthright and Annalisa is desperately missing her beloved father who died 6 months earlier.
Their meeting in the desert brings them together under the brilliant night skies and a memorable comet. Tahir deliberately pushes Annalisa away from him as his troubled family history has him believe that he is not for her. He does however want her to let him know if there is a consequence from their blazing night together.

After arriving at the palace with the news of her pregnancy, Annalisa agrees to stay and marry Tahir for the sake of the baby. There are some misunderstandings between Tahir and Annalisa along the way but as Annie blends the story so well
you are swept away in their journey.
Annalisa helps Tahir to understand his mother’s actions in the past and Tahir realises he wants to marry Annalisa, as he truly does love her.


I found this a great book to read and look forward to reading more books by Annie West.

[MaryD · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent enough story- Tahir has been beaten & whipped by his father the king, all his life and finally is banished from his home. In rebellion, he has become everything his father hates- gambling, carousing with wild women, drinking and in general wasting his life. When his father dies, Tahir is called home, only to crash his helicopter in the desert. Tahir is rescued by Annalisa, an innocent young woman, but he has lost his memory.

It is the last in the Dark-Hearted Desert Men series & did a good job in wrapping it up. I read this one first, and though I was a little confused in some areas, this can be read as a stand-alone.

[Lilydaffodils · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the first and the last book of this series. Love the ending as well. But I have questions hangging on my mind. If hero in this book bend the law and rules to be able to marry the half-quisay heroine why did the First throne and the second in line prince did not bend it for their heroines? ohh anyways there will be no story then if the first and second prince did not renounce thier duty to be King and married thier heroines. But still I enjoy reading this whole series it killed my time!

[Putri Septiana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Last book in the series. And it ends the series well.

I really love the hero in this book. He is not your usual asshat hero from most harlequin. He actually think that he is a bad man and don't deserve love and happiness. The heroine is pretty good, except as always had a flaw to always jumping to conclusion.

Overall, I enjoyed this book and the whole series.

[Kiru Taye · Rating 3 out of 5]

I usually enjoy Annie West but this book took a long time to grab my attention. It's my least favourite in the whole 'Dark-Hearted Desert Men' series but still an enjoyable read all in all.

3.5 stars

[Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book what a tortured hero Tahir is I loved him

[Leona · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another Great job from AW!

[Sandra Gonzalez · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is the second time I've read this book and I still didn't want to put it down.

[Angelina Neale · Rating 5 out of 5]

Possibly one of my all time favourites. See angelinaneale.com for the hefty review.

[Lisa Gemmell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short fun read

[Makii · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tahir♥

El, mas que nadie, merecia ser mi rey!

Despues de tanto, finalmente Qusay tiene a su soberano!

12 y ultimo libro de la serie La Cada Real de Karedes!

[Desi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leído el 19/07/2011