Status Updates From El hijo del Árabe

I don't think I could go on. Normally, I will stop reading whenever I realised that I didn't care for any of the characters and the developments of the story.
But this one, I just straight up hated the heroin from the prequel for unreasonably abanding one of her son (and the main heroin also, she instantly getting on my nerves).

You tell me, that the father sent one twin, 5 years of age, to his estranged grandfather as a "gift", and the mother "had had to let him go"? For 16 years???
Did I just spell ABANDON differently or what?

This book is harder to get into than "The Sheik," which drops you more quickly into the action between Diana and Ahmed. It's taken 60 pages to get into and out of young Ahmed's capture and torture by the brigands Yasmin is part and parcel with.