- Paperback: 185 pages
- Publisher: Harlequin Mills & Boon, Richmond, Surrey (6 Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0263837114
- ISBN-13: 978-0263837117
- Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 10.6 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 967,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When Australian supermodel Charmaine donates a dinner date with herself as a prize at a Sydney charity auction, she is amazed to discover the winning bidder has paid five million dollars for the privilege!
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
I was greatly disapointed
3 Feb 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I was greatly disapointed with Sold to the Sheikh. For years I have enjoyed reading Miranda Lee but this one I couldn't even finish. I have read books with similar themes that worked for me but this one lacked motivation for the character's actions. Other than hurt pride and lust, no redeeming motivation was demonstrated for the hero to bid $5 million at a charity auction for dinner with the heroine. Then to top this he offers her $500 million to spend 5 days in bed with him. The fact that he offered the money in the first place left me with a very bad taste in my mouth and then to have her accept it I didn't think she was much better even though the money was to go to a foundation she had started for the families of child cancer victims. I really could find no way that the characters could ever redeem themselves.
In addition, I felt it was highly improbable that anyone their would offer $500 million for 5 years in bed much less 5 days.
I will read Miranda Lee again with hopes that the next book will be greatly improved but I can say that I will never pick this book back up and finish it.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
The sheikh would have her - no matter what the price!
14 Jun 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Australian supermodel Charmaine has had enough with men in her life. Although she portrays a sexy siren in advertising campaigns, in reality she's been celibate for a while and has no plans to change that fact. So when she meets arrogant Prince Ali at a horse race, she flatly and rudely refuses to go out to dinner with him - ever. Eleven months later, Charmaine is auctioning herself off for charity, when Prince Ali bids five million dollars for a dinner date with her. While on the dinner date, the handsome Prince makes another proposition - he'll donate five hundred million dollars for a week's worth of Charmaine's time - in his house, in his life, and in his bed. Charmaine, who lost her little sister to cancer and has been quite devoted to funding cancer research since then, decides the offer is too good to pass up and accepts.
Prince Ali had been fascinated with Charmaine ever since he saw her in a television commercial. Even after she quickly turned him down for a dinner date, he's still intrigued by the curvy blonde beauty. So intrigued that he's willing to donate half a billion dollars to her favorite charity for a week spent with her. He's not just desiring one week with her though; the plan is to make her fall in love with him! Charmaine is guarding a secret very close to her heart, and he knows that she has to release whatever has troubled her so in the past to have a future - with him by her side!
This book is different from the types I usually read, but I still enjoyed it. Parts of Charmaine's story were so like my life, it was painful to read about it. I could completely understand her resentment, her simmering anger, and her inability to form close attachments to the opposite sex, once her entire story came out in the last twenty or so pages of the book. Ali, I liked a bit less. He was very arrogant, annoyingly so at times, and too much of a know-it-all for my tastes. He was okay, but I liked the character of Charmaine a lot better.
What didn't work for me: The profuse physical descriptions of a certain part of Ali during the first love scene, which seemed a bit too hokey for me. Ali and Charmaine thinking they were in love with one another after such a short period of time was a bit too over the top for me, too. The fact that both of the characters were more angry with each other than anything put me off a bit, too.
Still, the book was pretty good, especially if you want something to read that's a bit more spicy than your usual fare. Miranda Lee can write, and write well, there is no doubting that. So if you're looking for a passionate, quick read, this may be the one for you.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
SPOILER review here, don't read if you don't want to know! SPOILERS!
7 April 2006
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
SPOILERS! Last warning, don't read if you don't want to know a major part of the story.
I was so looking forward to the last in the 3-part series of the 3 Rich Men/billionaires, where the men & 1 woman met in a poker game each friday, with each book telling the tale of one of the poker players. I liked the on-going back-stories of previous main characters from other books popping in as if to say, "Hi!" Lovely.
This book was interesting enough, I suppose. I mean, the purpose of most books is to help you imagine yourself in a life other than your own sometimes, so what if it is a little over-the-top? And it is important to note that the author is Aussie, and Aussies do tend to have a "tell-it-like-it-is" nature, which often comes across as very arrogant.
My biggest complaint & even feel it as an offence: the lead heroine in the book, Charmaine, came from a sexually abused background, but she was turned on by being physically restrained by lead character Rico? I found that rather sickening. No woman who has been sexually abused would be turned on by being restrained physically against her will, for a few moments even. It would cause panic. If the character had shown panic, that would have been more believable, and certainly less sickening to those of us who are sensitive to these issues, which would be most women. I understand that she liked the man to be "masterful", but that was just too much, given her history. It didn't gell & I would have rather seen it used in another book entirely. That is my main gripe with this book, and what surprised and appalled me. I would expect more sensitvity from a female author.
However, unlike other reviewers, I actually thought Rico was likeable. He was in love with Charmaine, trying to find ways to get past her anger and frankly, I found her much more arrogant than him. He only resorted to the $500 mil after she wouldn't agree to see him any other way, and he knew she'd take the money to help her charity foundation for cancer kids. That was the only non-arrogant thing about her. I do agree, however, that they didn't have much conversation in which love would "bloom", but then I do believe in love at first sight, because it happened for my husband and myself. So I understood how these characters could be afraid of love, and let anger rule their interactions with each other, because anger gives the illusion of more power, and they would then feel less fear.
Other gripes? The ball was dropped on several issues, such as whatever happened to the pictures taken by the sleaze who abused Charmaine? How is it that this story didn't ever make it into the press if she was such a big supermodel, followed everywhere by the paparazzi, and she had filed a police report? Those are loose ends I would have liked to have seen tied up. Also, these 2 characters never showed that much love with each other. A little bit of warm-fuzzy feeling would have done alot for this book.
I give this book a 2-star only because even for the disturbing issue I mentioned with Charmaine & Rico's sex games clashing with Charmaine's sexual history, it is still an interesting read that keeps one turning the pages and not wishing you'd never picked it up. I wouldn't read it again, though.
I was so looking forward to the last in the 3-part series of the 3 Rich Men/billionaires, where the men & 1 woman met in a poker game each friday, with each book telling the tale of one of the poker players. I liked the on-going back-stories of previous main characters from other books popping in as if to say, "Hi!" Lovely.
This book was interesting enough, I suppose. I mean, the purpose of most books is to help you imagine yourself in a life other than your own sometimes, so what if it is a little over-the-top? And it is important to note that the author is Aussie, and Aussies do tend to have a "tell-it-like-it-is" nature, which often comes across as very arrogant.
My biggest complaint & even feel it as an offence: the lead heroine in the book, Charmaine, came from a sexually abused background, but she was turned on by being physically restrained by lead character Rico? I found that rather sickening. No woman who has been sexually abused would be turned on by being restrained physically against her will, for a few moments even. It would cause panic. If the character had shown panic, that would have been more believable, and certainly less sickening to those of us who are sensitive to these issues, which would be most women. I understand that she liked the man to be "masterful", but that was just too much, given her history. It didn't gell & I would have rather seen it used in another book entirely. That is my main gripe with this book, and what surprised and appalled me. I would expect more sensitvity from a female author.
However, unlike other reviewers, I actually thought Rico was likeable. He was in love with Charmaine, trying to find ways to get past her anger and frankly, I found her much more arrogant than him. He only resorted to the $500 mil after she wouldn't agree to see him any other way, and he knew she'd take the money to help her charity foundation for cancer kids. That was the only non-arrogant thing about her. I do agree, however, that they didn't have much conversation in which love would "bloom", but then I do believe in love at first sight, because it happened for my husband and myself. So I understood how these characters could be afraid of love, and let anger rule their interactions with each other, because anger gives the illusion of more power, and they would then feel less fear.
Other gripes? The ball was dropped on several issues, such as whatever happened to the pictures taken by the sleaze who abused Charmaine? How is it that this story didn't ever make it into the press if she was such a big supermodel, followed everywhere by the paparazzi, and she had filed a police report? Those are loose ends I would have liked to have seen tied up. Also, these 2 characters never showed that much love with each other. A little bit of warm-fuzzy feeling would have done alot for this book.
I give this book a 2-star only because even for the disturbing issue I mentioned with Charmaine & Rico's sex games clashing with Charmaine's sexual history, it is still an interesting read that keeps one turning the pages and not wishing you'd never picked it up. I wouldn't read it again, though.
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