Lovely Lysander!!
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Another winner from Jilly!! This is a bonk-buster to die for!! Lysander Hawkley, the answer to a womans' prayer!! He is a lothario, kind, sexy, good-looking, confident, needy, a best friend, a lover, and, ultimately, a hero. He keeps wandering husbands in check, and neglected wives in ecstasy!! He should be available on prescription! He is a competitor to Rupert Campbell-Black in the heart-throb stakes, being a nicer person than Rupert, but not having as much charisma. Throw in Rannaldini, the malevolent maestro
Hermione Harefield, the sex-crazed diva, a female rock singer, musicians, schoolgirls, amazing horses and lovely dogs, and its' a recipe for a fabulous read!! More please.
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A Perfect read!
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I adored this book! It is right up there with Polo, Riders and Rivals and much better than all that followed! This is actually one of the only books by Jilly where I actually really adored the main character, Lysander. What a sweetheart! And he's surrounded by a tip top cast of charcters including old faces we can't get enough of like Rupert and Taggie! More fun than a day at the fun fair!
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Lysander leaves lasting impression..
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The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous probably does not follow the same formula as the three previous novels as it is not based around a particular subject- i.e. Polo, TV, Showjumping. If you tried to base it around anything, it would probably be classical music, but that is more what Score! is about. This does not defect from a hilarious tale of jealousy, adultery and sheer romance.
The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous tells the tale of twenty-two year old Lysander Hawkley, a ravishing young man who breaks hearts unintentionally and is not your typical Jilly Cooper ladies' man, in the sense that he actually shows compassion to everything and is genuinely nice to animals as well as people. Distraught after the death of his mother, whom he adored, he sinks deeper into promiscuity (and debt), much to the disapproval of his father, David.
So his fat best friend, Ferdie, comes up with an idea- why not pay off his debt and do something that comes naturally to him? Why not get paid to look after cheating husbands' wives, pretend to bed them and make their husbands jealous whilst getting paid a HUGE fee for it. One rule however : DO NOT SLEEP WITH THE WIVES. Lysander decides to ignore this rule.
The business runs smoothly, with Ferdie taking care of the more technical side and the stunning Lysander doing marvellously well at keeping Paradise's husbands interested in their wives. However, it is not all smooth sailing, and Lysander finds love and adultery in all the most unexpected places...
This book marks the return of Rupert and Taggie Campbell-Black, as well as a brand new legacy of characters, such as Ranaldinni (who becomes a main character in the next three books) as well as his wife Kitty and Flora Seymour.
This book is fantastic, gripping from start to finish aswell as a real page turner, and while it is not challenging, the plot is covered extremely well and it is sheerly sex in a book. If there was such a thing as 10 stars, this book would get it. If you enjoy bonkbusters, this is the book for you, with plenty of sex laced with romance and a gripping story. Being thirteen (I am now fourteen) when I first read it really does not detract from the story, and I was probably too young but Jilly Cooper is Queen of the Chicklit.
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This review is for the DVD.
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The review is for the DVD. For some reason Amazon won't accept my DVD review!!!
I was really excited when I got this DVD, and became sorely disappointed after I watched it.
Good points: The music at the start is sexy (just perfect), and the music played when Rannaldini arrives in his Mercedes is diabolically good.
Bad points: Half the story is missing. Lysander is not impossibly handsome, there is no mention of Rupert and Taggie, nothing about Arthur and the race, Ferdie falls in love with Flora (and not with Natasha as in the book), Guy is horribly old and very ugly, and the Maestro, Rannaldini, who is supposed to be short and macho, looks very effeminate in this film. The Valhalla concert- one of the high points in the books- looked like another (albeit slightly sophisticated) garden party. Boris was supposed to struggle through an enormously complex piece of music, with the orchestra helping him at first. There is none of it here.
Kitty is supposed to be a dear child, and simply kind (like Taggie). Here she is a cauldron of confused emotions. The tennis match was simply laughable. It's supposed to be a high-powered match, but what we see is "Welcome to your first tennis lesson" sort of scene. The matches were unbearably dull.
I appreciate the technical difficulties in producing such a complex film, but if one can't do it properly, one shouldn't even attempt it. I would love to give it a higher rating, but with so many flaws, that simply wasn't possible.
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It wouldn't make your husbands jealous!
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I found this novel to be poor compared to the other books in the series. I found the ending the most disappointing, as it just simply wasn't believable. I know that escapism is the point of the novels but the relationship between Lysander and Kitty was just too far-fetched. We all hope that one day a gorgeous charming man would fall madly in love with us and rescue us from our mundane existances but the two characters seemed too incompatable and threfore ridiculous. Do read just to end the series, but not one of Jilly's best.
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