I really thought it would be from the perspective of an actual Filipina woman - but there were a lot of typical arab male point of views which I assume are the authors. It didn鈥檛 feel like an authentic story because of that.
To say the least, the novel reads like a mills and boons story with the exception that the mills and boons would be written with more depth, attention to detail and punctuation. This story reads like a middle-aged man's sexual fantasy gone wrong. In order to keep Joannna, the maid, seem innocent in our eyes, a religious conversion has to happen in order for readers to forget that she is actually a manipulative, egotistical and self-centered being who slept with the farm overseer to gain passage to Kuwait, pleasured a 17 year old young teen in her care (who happens to be on a wheelchair) and sexually molested her mistress's teenage daughter. Is this novel meant for someone with amnesia? Perhaps,. I still cannot get over how badly this is written.
Not that it's a bad book but i was really disappointed reading it. There was a huge fuss about it and how it portraits a real image of servants life in the gulf so I expected to read more in depth detail which weren't here.
The book is about a story life of a Filipino girl who was struggling to live but then she moved to Kuwait, and in order to move their and work as a housemaid she lost her virginity. In Kuwait she will face different things.