by GoneGray
I really enjoyed this story. 5*. Now I shall have to look up your other work.
Thank you for writing it, and thank you for sharing your work.
WOW!!! What a fantastic story! I can not imagine the amount of research that you had to put into this story in order to make it so authentic, international, exotic, etc! This is clearly in my top three stories! (It may actually be #1). Thank You for sharing this incredible story!
Man, this story just grabbed my attention and wouldn't let go. Excellent all the way through. From the "cold fish" to the blushing bride-to-be, what a transformation. When Daddy busted in to the room, I thought for sure the brown stuff had just hit the fan. So glad it turned out the way it did. Well done and five stars for sure.
I love it!
This was such a captivating story. I felt so invigorated after reading it. The perfect romance story.
Great story!
I would have liked to seen Hayward's reaction when he found out they were getting married, and that she is Manjur's daughter!
Tremendous story! And also a tremendously talented story-teller to have created such a fun and entertaining story and presented it in such delightful way. Well done, Gone Gray!
You fully engage thought and imagination. The idea of a seduction where the prey becomes a hunter.....just fun. Love grows in the most fascinating ways in your mind. Please continue to write as I and so many have found great pleasure in your work.
DP
Your imagination and word craft are fantastic! I’ve been making my way through all of your works and just had to stop and say Thank You!!!
This is, as others have said, a good story. My only significant criticism is that it feels a bit rushed, perhaps as if you were impatient to move on to something else or had a deadline that didn't allow you to develop the tale as fully as you would have liked.
Very nice, although doesn't quite reach the depth of some of your other lovely stories
Great lead up to the final showdown between the three protagonists. Then the realities of the situation the parties have been painted into is solved in moments. If this was not fantasy there are two possible outcomes:
1. Tragedy of lifetime separation as the better outcome or death of the tigress as the most likely outcome.
2 Eventual marriage after several enforced separations and many stressful negotiations and family meetings and most likely the acceptance by Nick of the Moslem faith.
Either of these outcomes would take several fascinating pages to resolve. I think Gonegray could have stretched these fascinating characters over a much larger canvas. I would expect a sex scene on a tiger pelt in there somewhere as well as discussion of honour killing of misbehaving daughters.
I enjoyed it very much. I have to agree, though, with those commenters who suggest that it felt a little rushed. When I clicked on the fourth page, and realized that there were only two pages left, I wondered how you were going to pull it off. In hindsight, you spent almost as much time on Martin and the other men hitting on her as you did on her father. I would have liked a longer scene (or two) with the couple simply interacting without sex. You do these scenes so well in your other stories. Perhaps they could have a business meeting, sitting across a table, but unable to touch or exchange those smoldering looks. I scored it a 5, but it could have been even better.
I’m happy for Baghini and Nick that her confrontation with her Father turned out as it did.
It could have easily turned out very badly, for both of them.
I imagine that it’s not often that a rich and powerful man, who wears his patriarchal religious beliefs on his shirt sleeves, will let go of his “control” over his children, and especially a daughter, like this.
A lovely story. I quite enjoyed the ride. It would be fun to read any of their further adventures. 5*