Desperate In Dubai- Ameera Al Hakawati. Dr. J review

Let’s get straight to “The Ten Questions”…

1.How/Why/Where did you buy the book?

The book has been lying in my Flipkart ebook library for a while now. Timeout Dubai dubs this book as the “UAE’s answer to Desperate Housewives”.

I read about it, more than a year ago; at some random Dubai based style and fashion forum (don’t ask me what I was doing there, a week before my exams!).

I then visited the blog (the book was once a blog!) and liked what I saw.

I wanted the book- then and there.

This was more than a year ago. While I was still a MAxFAc resident, living the hard life in a small university town in central Karnataka. I had no access to a decent bookstore, and Messrs Filpkart and Amazon were my knights in shining armour! The only way to instant gratification was purchasing an ebook.

So I did.

And read it that very night.

Fast- forward to 15 months later. I come across a similar book while on a routine (ahem ahem!) visit to Jarir (one of the few places to get books in Qatar). It was called Girls of Riyadh (review coming up next). The book was insanely priced (duh!), so even though the blurb piqued my interest, I let it go.

Two days ago, I bought the ebook on Flipkart at a tenth of the price. (Smug expression. Self-pat on the back.)

After finishing that book, I felt like re- reading this one.

So I did.

Till 4 am. :-)

2. What is the book about?

About women.

About love.

......... continue reading in the original blog.