GRR Reviews Wanted: A Wife for the Sheikh (Desert Ki by Diana Fraser

Wanted: A Wife for the Shiekh is a mediocre fairy tale where a girl getting by as cleaning staff in a hotel gets hired by a sheikh to be his personal assistant and computer consultant, but also knew that they cannot love because he is in line for the throne and must marry a strategic partner rather than for love. The ending was achieved without any struggle.

Crown Prince Malek of Sumaira is an international lawyer, usually leaving his crown prince duties to his brother. However, his brother was somewhere in the Australian outback in a journey to find himself and when his father died, he must assume his duties to be crowned king and marry to create a queen to stabilize the country. When his team of assistants screwed up a presentation and the hotel cleaning staff, Sophie, managed to resolve the problem, he hired her on the spot as the royal IT consultant (which she's actually quite qualified for) for six months. However, Malek is fighting his mother, who did not want him to become king. Sophie was smitten with Malek, but she knew this romance can go nowhere, as he needed to marry politically and strategically, and there is no place for a British girl intending to travel the world. Malek is just as smitten with Sophie, so different from the local woman, and unsophisticated in palace politics, but he cannot hurt his kingdom, a post he did not want, yet no one else will take...

SPOILER ALERT

The ending sucked as neither resolved their problem. Someone else resolved the problem for them by finding Malek's brother in Australia and flew him back to be crowned King instead, leaving Malek to marry Sophie. NO STRUGGLE! The love angst was not resolved by the lovers! This is basically a deus ex machina! The author basically CHEATED to give the couple the happily ever after! Add this to a mostly "meh" romance, and you got a decidedly UNDERWHELMING one.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Arab prince hired a hotel maid to be his IT expert and fell for her, but he's destined to marry someone else for his kingdom...

Tropes: different worlds, royalty, family pressure, ugly duckling, fairy tale

Overall Rating:  2/5