Monday, January 11, 2010

Wild Jasmine by Bertrice Small



what can I say about this book?
This is one of the most mesmerizing books I have ever read and you would love it also. Jasmine former name Princess Yasaman was born of an english mother and an Indian Grand Mughal as a father. Her father kept her when her mother went back to england to get married to someone else as promised. However, at that point everything changes for her before she was of age to even realize. She had a beauty like no other; smart, strong, and charming. Her half-brother who wants to resume his incestuous relationship with her. This part of the book was the most terrifying because she loved that brother dearly,since she was a child and now she has aged 13 years; the year when a girl becomes a women in India, her beloved brother uses her naivety to seduce her. When her father realizes what is happening after a servant told him that he found the brother close to having sex with yasaman, she is married to  Prince Jamaal, a playboy at heart who changes for the love he has for yasaman, but he is brutally killed by a conspiracy set up by her half-brother who wants her. This was just the beginning for yasaman. she married, remarried, and traveled across the world to get away from her brother, but he is always a step behind her. As you go on through the story you will notice and actually feel her pain, her lost, and happiness. The author is trully amazing. when I was reading the book I felt as if I was in India; experiencing everything with yasaman. I felt like I was inside her room on that changeful night or the young women who was sadly waiting for her dead husband to return. This tale is beautiful and is waiting for you to pick it up and shed more tears than you have ever shed before. It might sound lovey dovey, but it is anything but. You guys must read it!!
A book. To love one. To respect one. To favor one. This means that you are a lover of books indeed! Welcome!