Online Book Review of Harem Girl -
Mariyah Saalih's hot and steamy romance story.
Harem Girl, a harem girl's journal, is a passionate story
told through the eyes of a love slave, a sensual adult story
of erotic romance set, where else, but in an Arabian sheik's
harem.
Boldly written, it daringly takes the erotic harem romance novel beyond where most writers of
this genre have gone. A lifelike tale, so much so that you
feel...imagine...you could be the beautiful slave girl Sapphira,
sharing her joy, trepidation, and tears as she is shown the
ways of the harem, and ultimately, how she cautiously
bends the romantic lust of the sheik to her liking.
 The
book is the memoirs of Mariyah El-Abiad (in the harem she
is given the name Sapphira) a disenchanted Muslim wife who devises
a dangerous and deceitful plan to spend a short time in an
Arabian sheik's harem although she is at the time married to
another man.
But
things don't work out the way she had planned - her plans are
ruined by a scheming rival sheik - and she falls desperately
in love with her new master, while becoming entrapped in his
harem.
In the first part of the book she tells of the new things she has to learn
and of life as a new harem love slave, all as a backdrop to
a sexy fantasy romance that later evolves into a tender romantic
novel with more emphasis on the romantic and sensual sides
of harem life.
The 1001 Arabian Nights story revisited!
Classical orientalist paintings of harem life
gave inspiration for, and confirmed, that many of the events
and happennings could easily have happened. I am using some
of these paintings and sketches to guide your review and tour
through the book.
Clicking on Pick a Picture Picture Gallery will
start you on a review whereby you can go from one of the illustrations
to the full chapter that was inspired or influenced by the
painting or sketch or go straight to a chapter by clicking
on any of the links on the left.
(Please note:
the illustrations used in this online review do not appear
in the book. They are used here for background information
and to set the mood, it not being possible to include art work
between the covers of the book. An exception is the Mobipocket
eBook edition that has thirteen of the pictures included.)
Authors comments:
I am the author of the book and this review. I put the review
online to tell you more about the book, and if you like what
you see and read, where to buy it.
I wrote Harem Girl after considerable
study of past and present Middle East harems and a visit to the
Moorish Alhambra Palace in Grenada, Spain, so while the story
is fiction, it is laid over revealing fact. You may find some
of the customs shocking, but they are all true and were, and
are today, commonly practiced. After all, the sheik had total
power over his harem girls, he didn't have to seduce or convince
them to let him have his way — he took what he wanted — thereby revealing what men desire and take, when
nothing is in the way to stop them!
Furthermore, when I read erotic harem stories I expect more
than shallow hints of what goes on when the sheik takes his
chosen girls to the bedchamber and the huge doors close behind
them. I don't know about you, but with other books I always
felt let down and hanging as rarely was there much, if any,
interesting or believable dialog and I always wanted to go
further and learn more about what really went on behind closed
doors.
Well, I tell you everything, uncensored, yet wrapped in a
romantic love story that puts the harem novel clearly in the
class of erotic stories. If you are looking for in-your-face
pornography this is not for you. If you are looking for romantic
stories with a good dose of hot and steamy sex then this is
a book for you. And yes guys, there is just as much if not
more in it for you too!
Read this book to yourself or with your lover. Sapphira's
sexy story will curl your toes and disturb the sensual side
of you in a pleasing way.
Not daring enough to read it to your lover? Then leave it open at your favorite
page for him or her to find. Lovers understand.
Readers who are fans of romance writers Nora Roberts (aka
J. D. Robb), Bertrice Small, Anne Rice, and Harlequin Romance
Novels etc. will likely find Harem Girl one
of the most captivating of harem stories.
Harem Girl is, at its
heart, an engaging and erotic story. Sapphira, beautiful
and assured, tells in unblushing and sensuous detail of her
journey through life, briefly as an innocent young girl in
Tunisia, then as one of eleven love slaves in an Arabian
sheikh's harem, where her life changes utterly. Shamelessly,
she reveals the sheik's secrets of exotic lovemaking.
There is much to learn before girls are ready to be brought
to their master. Eunuchs must train and instruct them in
every facet of the art of pleasing a man....
"on one hand, I looked forward to knowing these things, yet
on the other, I was aghast at the way I had to show myself
and the distasteful things I might have to do. It thoroughly
unnerved me to realize that I must know a man in these
ways - a man I scarcely knew"...
Her
life story is compelling and moving, revealing
a level of lustful debauchery, submission, and decadence
unimaginable today, but completely believable in the era in
which it is set…and we are like the “fly on the wall” to watch and
share her joy and tears, as intriguing, romantic, and sometimes,
wretched events unfold.
But all is not as it first appears. She uncovers chinks in the
sheik's cold and indifferent exterior. Hearts are vulnerable
- even the strongest succumb - and gently they enter into the
warm world of love between a man and a woman...and she steps
across a forbidden boundary she had not imagined doing at the
start. Unknown to others, Sapphira harbors a dark and troubling
past. Years later, when her unlawful secret is uncovered, her
calmed life collapses, leaving her exposed to swift and cruel
justice. With heartrending bravery, she climbs from the depths
of deplorable anguish and tells a story guaranteed to excite
the senses and arouse emotions - in a pleasing way.
If you enjoy erotic stories about desert sheiks and harems
you will not be disappointed! However, note the sensible warning
on the back cover:- "A book recommended
for the mature and broad minded - not for teenage daughters," or
your mother I may add! It
is sensually erotic in parts, a conversation piece for sure,
but a tastefully written book you will be pleased to own.
(c) Copyright 2004 Mariyah Saalih
2007-03-14
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