Intresting book. So sad that for these women, it is a life in a gilded cage.

Pity the lives of the poorer class's are not given at least that compensation.

Sultana is at least lucky she has a husband who is somewhat symapthetic to his fellow Saudi womens lot in life. I can't imagine what her life would be like if she had been made to marry a tyrant of a husband.

Princess Sultana lost a bit of my sympathy towards her in this second book of hers. It's hard to feel for her when you read her bragging of her expensive, vault-protected jewels, her extravagant homes all over the world, her spoilt daughter feeding luxury foods to cats and dogs, her laughing about laughing when two men died at Hajj, and her macing of her own cousin - to name but a few!

It's obvious that the women in Saudi Arabia are treated as inferior to the men, but the fact remains that this is the story of a princess, someone who lives a more comfortable life than millions of people on this planet. Although it's easy to feel sorry for many of the women she talks of in her book, I find it more difficult to feel sorry for Sultana herself.

Still, it's very easy to read, and compelling enough to keep you interested through to the end.

Super interesting and moving read, but hard for anything in this series to live up to the amazing first memoir, Princess. Hard to swallow the fact that people actually live like this and makes you wish you could do something to change it.

Princess Sultana's story continues in this second book that can be read on its own. This book focuses on her daughters and the life she tries to create for them. Sultana is a women's rights advocate but is also held back by her status as a woman to do much. This dynamic makes her worry about her daughters' future. This book gives an inside peak at Saudi Arabia and its culture. It's interesting. It's riveting. And it's definitely worth your time to read.

read my review of the book here:
https://loadstoread.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/princess-sultanas-daughters-by-jean-p-sasson/