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LADY JASMINE - Victoria Christopher Murray Simon & Schuster/Touchstone June 2009 |
SYNOPSIS: The beloved--and hated--Jasmine Larson Bush returns to battle her own past in a compelling new novel of love, faith, and shame from "Essence"-bestselling author Murray.
CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE |4+| Dianthia Lemons
REVIEW: Hiding
behind the cross has been literally taken on by Lady Jasmine, Jerome Viceroy,
and Senior Pastor Hosea Bush. Lady Jasmine has taken the role of the First Lady
to a new low level, or perhaps the cover has just been removed to expose what is
being done for the sake of love and economics.
Jasmine Cox Larson Bush, former stripper, UCLA graduate, wanna be fashionista,
hoochie, and First Lady of City of Lights Church leaves no doubt when it comes
to getting what she wants—wealth, prestige, and power at any cost.
Forced into a situation by the sudden illness of his father, host of a top rated
TV show, interim Pastor Hosea Bush’s overnight rise to pastor of a mega church
stirs up a great deal of strife. Like Hosea in the Bible, earthly Hosea is
married to a ho and has the audacity to be obedient to both his earthly and
heavenly father.
LADY JASMINE was a mesmerizing read. From
the first page, it was entrancing and difficult to put down. With so many
colorful characters, the book kept me on the verge of shouting, yelling, and
praying. It’s a book that makes you want to reach out and touch the characters.
Victoria Christopher Murray is a talented, skillful master of the written word
with a scandalously outrageous depiction of some religious activities and
institutions. Themes of love, trust, honesty, protection, fidelity, sickness,
and pain stretch your emotions.
LADY JASMINE is a book that you will read
several times before sharing, which you will be inspired to do again and again.
reviewer@romanceincolor.com | 25th July 2009