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Summary: Stripes: the romance novel
Review: Ok, I hope everyone reading this has seen the movie "Stripes." "Stripes" begins wild and hilarious, but then an assanine plot is introduced and the movie goes to pot. Such is the case with "Wild Jasmine." This book starts out great. Yasaman is a young girl who is pursued by her half brother, Salim. She is still young and innocent, he is a lusty monster. Their incestuous moment together is one of the most sensual passion plays I've ever read. Yasaman goes on to marry another man and their relationship is fiery, passionate, and beautiful. Yasaman reveals herself to be very strong-willed and complex. After her husband dies, the book turns bad. She has a succession of husbands/lovers that also die. The book focuses on sex and lust at the expense of character development. Yasaman grows up far too suddenly and loses her fiery qualities. I could not give this book a one because I enjoyed the beginning far too much. This book and its heroine had such promise and potential. The later developments soured my feelings toward them both. However, the first part was extraordinarily delicious and shouldn't be missed. I recommend that Beatrice Small/historical romance fans read the first part of this book and then return it. Make up your own ending, its much more fun. Yasaman was a great character, but Ms. Small couldn't take her anywhere. The Skye O'Malley saga has finally run out of steam and Ms. Small can only write about sex -- even that is old and tired. Romance novels require more than just sex to keep my interest. I believed that "Wild Jasmine" was going to be a well-rounded book, but I was greatly disappointed.
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Summary: Stripes: the romance novel
Review: Ok, I hope everyone reading this has seen the movie "Stripes." "Stripes" begins wild and hilarious, but then an assanine plot is introduced and the movie goes to pot. Such is the case with "Wild Jasmine." This book starts out great. Yasaman is a young girl who is pursued by her half brother, Salim. She is still young and innocent, he is a lusty monster. Their incestuous moment together is one of the most sensual passion plays I've ever read. Yasaman goes on to marry another man and their relationship is fiery, passionate, and beautiful. Yasaman reveals herself to be very strong-willed and complex. After her husband dies, the book turns bad. She has a succession of husbands/lovers that also die. The book focuses on sex and lust at the expense of character development. Yasaman grows up far too suddenly and loses her fiery qualities. I could not give this book a one because I enjoyed the beginning far too much. This book and its heroine had such promise and potential. The later developments soured my feelings toward them both. However, the first part was extraordinarily delicious and shouldn't be missed. I recommend that Beatrice Small/historical romance fans read the first part of this book and then return it. Make up your own ending, its much more fun. Yasaman was a great character, but Ms. Small couldn't take her anywhere. The Skye O'Malley saga has finally run out of steam and Ms. Small can only write about sex -- even that is old and tired. Romance novels require more than just sex to keep my interest. I believed that "Wild Jasmine" was going to be a well-rounded book, but I was greatly disappointed.
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Summary: I loved it..
Review: A friend of mine gave me this book for a brithday gift.It was a wonderfully book.This is my first time reading one of Small's books.I have to say she is a great writer.My favorite charcater was jasmine's grandmother skye..
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Summary: a totally entertaining red hot novel
Review: Among other romance writers, mrs small would always hold a special place in my heart. i know, iknow it sounds corny but her books are really somewhat special. i especially love darling jasmine, about a young princess of a moghul emperor who travels to the royal courts of england because her lustful half brother salim,wants to marry her. its just fantastic. there a lot of unfortunate accidents which keeps on happenin to jasmine beloved ones to( her 1st husband, then her 2nd husband and finally her much beloved very young prince of england, they all die) plus the lovemaking is so very hot that it would blow u off. you just cant miss this book. if u r a regular romance reader looking for somethin new besides stephani laurens and rosemary rogers .then i would recommend this book to you.ENJOY!!!
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Summary: This book is one you will not be able to put down
Review: Beatrice Small out did herself this time.She makes you feel you are there
with Jasmine. This book has you yearning for more. I can`t
wait to read the sequel Darling Jasmine!!!!
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: Bertrice Small has outdone herself again. The story of Jasmine deMarisco has been engrained into my thoughts. It was so good because Jasmine falls in love over and over again, then she couldn't wed Prince Henry and that's what made it a tragic love story...and what happened to Rory Macquire? Well I hope I find out in the sequel, since I didn't like the ending too much, but on the other hand, I think Ms. Small was always planning to make the sequel. And using Catriana and Patrick Leslie's son Jemmie (which I love the book "Love, Wild and Fair") I haven't read enough of Bertrice Small's books and I have a feeling that many of the characters link together some way or another, which is great since when I read a story, I don't forget, and it pleases me for her to mention another heroin/hero from one of her previous novels. Bertrice has a way of drawing you in and keeping you enthralled with her stories. Wild Jasmine made me laugh and cry as well as dream. I ! wish they could make movies of her books. Keep them coming and I look forward to the sequel of Jasmine deMarisco's adventure with Jemmie Leslie, Earl of Glenkirk..the Glenkirk Chronicles. Kalaniku
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Summary: The anticipated sequel...
Review: For the longest time I yearned for a sequel to the Jasmine story and was very gratified to be able to finally read it. I really loved WILD JASMINE. My only problems with it were: 1-Jasmine was a spoiled brat with no sense of responsibility and little common sense. She also couldn't stop bragging about her beauty, wealth, royal status, and important father. 2-The Roy Maguire sequence was VERY far-fetched. How could Jasmine not recall sleeping with him? How could she have been in a hallucinatory state during their entire time in bed? Give me a break! And then the poor guy's child is passed off as another's as Jasmine and her coterie blithely leave Ireland and leave brokenhearted Rory behind. This is the second most disappointing thing to happen in a Bertrice Small novel, the first most being what I discussed in my review for ALL THE SWEET TOMORROWS. Sadly, Jasmine gets stupider in each successive book of the O'Malley saga. By the time I finished reading BEDAZZLED (two books after this one), I wanted to strangle her!
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Summary: Like grandmother, like granddaughther. . .
Review: Horrible, sloppy, and inept. I cannot describe this book any other way. An eleven year-old fan-fic writer could have done better. Trying reading this book aloud and you'll figure out why I'm giving it such harsh criticism. Besides an implausible plotless-plot, Jasmine has the exact same problem as her grandmother, Skye. The girl has a lot of guts and no common sense. She's also incredibly vain and conceited. As soon as she starts to talk about how her father is the "Grand Mughal of India" I want to reach into the pages and slap the haughtiness out of her. That Velvet could have given birth to such a spoiled brat is beyond me. Jasmine's sex scenes remind me of cheap porno movies: contrived circumstances and improbable orgasms. The one redeeming factor in this book is the character of Rory Maguire. That's it. You can burn the rest of this horrid piece of trash.
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Summary: outstanding
Review: I came across this book in a jumble sale....little did I know what a treasure I had in my posession! This book was brilliant,with vivid and exotic descriptions and characters. The story line was fast paced and always kept me yearning for more. Jasmine was brave and determined and had a very eventful life, full of love and heartbreak alike. In the end she still found true love and came out victorious. Many of the characters were memorable...Adali, Cullen Butler,Jasmine's foster mother and many more! To those of you readers out there ....especially those who have a flair the romance and sensuality of the eastern countries...this book is a WINNER all the way!Bertrice Small hat's off to you!
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Summary: Dull, Contrived and an utter waste of time
Review: I dislike giving a book such a bad review as an author puts so much heart and soul into their writing but honestly Beatrice Small would have been better spent putting her time towards a more worthy cause. This book was extremely dissapointing and I can only be thankful I checked it out of the library and didn't waste money buying this. Her writing is talented enough but the subject matter and convuluted story nearly drove me insane.Romance should make you feel and care for the heroine but this novel never achieves this. It is like a dark trumped up Catherine Cookson but nowhere near as good. A bit of adversity and darkness is acceptable in a romance if only to make the reforming of the hero/saving of the heroine more poignant. Romances don't have to be light fluff but they should leave the reader feeling content not disturbed.Each to their own but I think this is not romance it is rubbish.
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