Jeannie H. (ilovebooksanddogs) -
**spoiler alert** Maybe I should of given this another star, it was a good read and moved along nicely...but...
I've read enough of this type of book- woman marries Middle Eastern man- to understand how this could happen. Her knowing what and how her husband was and what he was capable of, she should NEVER have left her daughter alone with him, not for one second!! She does agonize over this fateful decision more than once in the book and my heart goes out to her for that. I can forgive her that. But when she had the opportunity, more than once, to steal her daughter back, does she do it? No! Instead of listening to her heart,she asks the advice of several psycologists and is told it would cause her daughter trauma. Well excuse me!! I believe it was a greater trauma that this little girl was manipulated and controlled by her psycotic father on top of being told her mother was dead!! Instead she went back to her fancy life in Dubai, going on holidays, enjoying fancy dinners out, etc...all, as she says, to keep her mind occupied. Sorry! This mom right here doesn't understand.
And then in the end, they don't end up having a proper mother-daughter relationship. How could they ever?
Good read, but disappointing for me with the outcome.
I've read enough of this type of book- woman marries Middle Eastern man- to understand how this could happen. Her knowing what and how her husband was and what he was capable of, she should NEVER have left her daughter alone with him, not for one second!! She does agonize over this fateful decision more than once in the book and my heart goes out to her for that. I can forgive her that. But when she had the opportunity, more than once, to steal her daughter back, does she do it? No! Instead of listening to her heart,she asks the advice of several psycologists and is told it would cause her daughter trauma. Well excuse me!! I believe it was a greater trauma that this little girl was manipulated and controlled by her psycotic father on top of being told her mother was dead!! Instead she went back to her fancy life in Dubai, going on holidays, enjoying fancy dinners out, etc...all, as she says, to keep her mind occupied. Sorry! This mom right here doesn't understand.
And then in the end, they don't end up having a proper mother-daughter relationship. How could they ever?
Good read, but disappointing for me with the outcome.
