📖📷 Book : Rose in the Desert
Author : Hina Shiekh : hinashiekh_
Couples : Miraan and Chashman / Sinaan and Adar
Tropes : Cousin romance, Arranged marriage, Hate to love, Healing, Forgiveness, Regret, Redemption
(Most of the pictures are from the authors book)
First Couple : Miraan and Chashman
Miraan is a politician and a mafia leader. He is manipulative, decisive and can use any method to get what he wants, even blackmail. How he manages to come across as arrogant and gentleman-like at the same time is truly well written.
Chashman is a positive girl, who loves everyone except her father and his family. Her character is so contradictory in her love for certain people and her complete hatred for others.
Chashman's hate and hurt is so well described, that you feel like you are truly living it with her in those heartbreaking moments, and are cheering her on for her behavior, and at the same time wanting to erase the hate so that she can be happy again.
And when she finally accepts them, again you are cheering with her. So fragile, yet so fierce and brave.
I guess Miraan felt the same and that's what writes this beautiful couple with their push, pull, friendship, misunderstandings, and moments of love. Hes a bad man, who is only good for her it would seem, and you really cannot help but fall in love with him.
PS : I love how he calls her "chari chokri"
Second Couple : Sinaan and Adar
What an emotionally wrecking story! Sinaan has been brought up with the idea that women are of little importance and having a wife will not change his way of living at all.
Adar on the other hand is making beautiful dreams towards her marriage, and her life. Hoping it will be better than her mothers , considering her mother is the second wife of her father and has no value in the marriage.
She gives it her all in the marriage, her emotional, physical, and genuinely fall for her husband.
Unfortunately for her, her life is just the same as her mothers. All her expectations are shattered when all Sinaan needs her for are her wifey duties, whereas he gives her no time, no conversation , no emotional availability nothing.
Adar complete breakdown into the new person she becomes is heart breaking. Her emotions or lack thereof, her blankness is more worrisome than if she had shouted or screamed or created a scene.
Her way of teaching him a lesson even without meaning to is just *chefs kiss*
Him realizing what he had only after having it lost is wonderful to read and oh-so-satisfying. He starts to miss her small gestures, her smiles.
Her ignorance and complete lack of emotion to him, as if he were a mere duty, pinches his heart, and his character development is then great!
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