The Lioness of Morocco
*le sigh*
I finished this book last night and now I have the difficult job of trying to describe how wonderful it is. Sometimes words don’t describe that warm feeling you have in your chest when you finish the last page of a book, but I’ll do my best. The Lioness of Morocco is about a strong willed woman who moves from England in the 1800’s to a life of business, love, and adventure in exotic Morocco. She married in order to leave her dreary homeland, but there is no love lost between her and her husband. Over the years she builds a family, befriends the locals, and falls in love with a handsome Frenchman. How will she juggle it all and keep her family from scandal and ruin?
This book was so perfectly written that I couldn’t wait to see how all of the character’s lives played out. I thought the book was the straight forward romance at the beginning: Woman leaves home with rotten husband, finds new love in a foreign country, something flawlessly happens so that she can leave dirty husband for awesome Frenchman. But I was only about half way through the book when said “miracle” was supposed to be happening; so I got curious as to what a whole second half would bring. Oh Boy! Was I ever wrong. The authors take the protagonist through hell and back, always with a carrot dangling for her true happiness. This was a GREAT romance novel where I couldn’t quite figure out if the ending was going to end with The Lioness getting her man, or living her life alone. Pick it up and read if you want to find out.
I would recommend this book if you are a Hallmark Christmas movie watcher who would like a bit more adult content and less Disney fairytale.
Malia's Pizza Rating
Fire roasted flatbread and goat cheese pizza.