Sweet Revenge by Nora Roberts

Book: Sweet Revenge
Author: Nora Roberts
Paperback:376 pages
Published: May 1997

I debated on whether I should review this book on my blog or not since its considered to be a pure 'fluff' read and then decided why the heck not? I love Nora Roberts for the way she captures her reader's imagination and takes them to live with her characters. Nothing wrong with picking up a book knowing full well that its not a serious read and you are reading it just to enjoy the romance.

That sets the context of the book which is classified as a romantic thriller. I am re reading this after a few years and picked it up last night with the intention of just spending 30 m on it. I didn't sleep till 3 am till I finished it!

Its about a princess born to a middle-east King and an American actress and how she is hated by her father for being a girl as well as being half western. She watches her mother fade away in front of her eyes because of her father's callousness and hate. She becomes a very slick thief during the night and a socialite during the day. Playing robin hood she steals Jewels from the rich and after keeping a percentage to herself donates the rest to the poor. Just as she is about to retire and end with one final heist she comes across another retired thief. Philip Chamberlain who was a thief himself and now converted to Interpol is falls in love with Adrianne and extracts her deepest secrets. It ends with how they pull of the successful heist of Adrianne's legacy - the sun & the moon necklace from the King and makes him pay for her mother's tragedy.

Bottom Line: It is a great feel good novel with romance and suspense thrown in. After reading reading lolita in tehran, the depiction of Muslim women in this novel is extremely basic and exaggerated. But since I was not looking for a well researched culturally educating novel, I could look past and just enjoy the romance.