Caressa Sidana is daddies little girl in this racy romantic thriller. An only child, she is heiress to her father’s chocolatier business. A billionaires and ‘’Queen’’ in her own right she seeks to take her father’s company to greater heights than she has already done.
Hurdles crop up in her way in the form of ex-boyfriend and employee Carter. He shows up at a private meeting to pitch her clients and future business partners. She plays it cool knowing she has the client’s eating out of her hands.
Contrary to what her father taught her, she discreetly indulged in business mixed with pleasure in a polyamorous relationship with ex Carter and bodyguard Marco. Though Carter threw himself out of the love triangle by being fired from the company, Caressa could never see herself in a monogamous relationship, which is why she always found herself re-evaluating her and Marco’s relationship when lines got blurred.
Just like in matters of business, she never stayed in the same place for long, so did her objects of desires. In the signing of the business deal with the De Silva’s, she found herself falling for Ishmael. Jealousy soon crops up within Marco forcing Caressa to let him go and pursue Ishmael. Ishmael had a certain hold on her that was both great but dangerous, and she kept exploring him because she loved passion with a hint of danger. She soon realises that with Ishmael there is more than meets the eye, almost as if he lives a double life. One, which even she, a businesswoman susceptible to did not know of. This side and world of Ishmael would soon save her from the likes of Carter who threatened her life and future of her father’s company.
This story studies the dynamics of power in the hands of a woman. It takes feminism as its major theme to tell its story of an independent woman with the world at her disposal. Often we see men in positions of power dominating women in the workplace and bedroom but in this story, the roles are reversed and other than the readers, the characters in the book itself are somewhat repulsed by her choices. Her choices of wanting to get married late in life, of taking over the business and not giving into herd instinct. The story also addresses the misconception of feminism in itself. Most people regard feminism as a lonely approach to life where women don’t seem to need men for anything but in this story we actually see men offer a hand to Caressa in times of need when she needed it and she a powerful woman accepts it. The book also explores polyamory in the eyes of a woman, giving her both power in the office and bedroom, just like business there are no hard feelings. Caressa’s character is used to explore polyamory, which would otherwise be viewed as promiscuity in the eyes of society. With this, Shakir Rashaan seeks to put forth the point that not only men are allowed to be sexually adventurous in relationships.
In conclusion, The Queen of Cambridge by Shakir Rashaan was a great read, short, sweet and up to the point. Found no errors in grammar, which made for smooth reading. I give it a rating of 4 out of 4 stars and recommend it to an adult audience as it contains scenes of a sexual nature and violence.
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