Score!

Rating:
Summary: Mediocre
Review: Despite all the glowing recommendations on the back cover,this HAS to be the silliest book I've ever read.In fact I simply couldn't finish it as it's a waste of too much precious time that could be spent in reading something decent.I bought it on the premise that it would be good bit of fluff in between more serious reading,but God help us-people bonking each other like rabbits(of all sexes) evil 9 year old boys smoking joints in church and the so-called heroine pouring vodka down her throat,on her wedding day,till she vomits everywhere!Life's too short to waste it on this tasteless rubbish!

Rating:
Summary: Super!
Review: I am (yet another) huge fan of Jilly Cooper's!! I absolutely adore her characters, she actually dares to make the heroes and heroines into basic humans in the sense that they can all be rather nasty! She obviously hates hypocrites and loves animals which makes her even better!! Score! is admittedly not her absolute best, but since several of her other "Rutshire-books" deserve at least a six stars, well..... The book is full of funny one-liners and passionate people. I read it really quickly at first, because I was curios to see how the whole thing ended, now I am re-reading it for the language and details! I do hope she will write more...

Rating:
Summary: Not her best but still an excellent read
Review: I am a big Jilly Cooper fan and was very excited to see a new book out. I found it to be a really good read and was pleased to see that Tabitha Campbell-Black was one of the main characters. It was a bit different to the others, as the second half was a murder mystery. While the killer was obvious to me pretty early on, I still found it quite scary near the end. The only thing that was disappointing was that so much time was spent on the exploits of the secondary characters and not enough on the romances between the main characters, Lucy, Tristan, Tabitha etc. However, it was still a great read. I hear her next book will be set in the art world and feature Rupert's brother. I hope it won't be too long before it's finished!

Rating:
Summary: Not her best but still an excellent read
Review: I am a big Jilly Cooper fan and was very excited to see a new book out. I found it to be a really good read and was pleased to see that Tabitha Campbell-Black was one of the main characters. It was a bit different to the others, as the second half was a murder mystery. While the killer was obvious to me pretty early on, I still found it quite scary near the end. The only thing that was disappointing was that so much time was spent on the exploits of the secondary characters and not enough on the romances between the main characters, Lucy, Tristan, Tabitha etc. However, it was still a great read. I hear her next book will be set in the art world and feature Rupert's brother. I hope it won't be too long before it's finished!

Rating:
Summary: Mediocre
Review: I am afraid I agree with the lady who said that this was rather silly, whilst I am a massive fan of Jilly Cooper and devoured the last five (Riders, Rivals, Polo, the Man who, and Appassionata)novels with relish, I was extremely disappointed at the ludicrosity of the plot.
It starts off reasonably well, what with the Marriage of TABITHA CAMPBELL BLACK to her the son of her father's long time rival jake, ISA LOVELL, and the author depicts the relations between these and others well. There are some old favourites, such as Rupert, Ranaldinni and Taggie and Flora Seymour, but the author introduces a whole new array of characters and quite frankly, there are far, far too many to be getting to know properly.

Once the sinister air of foul play starts creeping into the plot, this is when things start getting ridiculous. I see the author's point - to keep the readers guessing as to who the murderer is - but the climax, when we finally do find out, is so ridiculous and completely unbelievable that you are left wondering what the hell that was all about....??

The "love Story" part of this book is also completely unbelievable, there is absolutely no warmth or chemistry between the two characters involved, this book is nothing like the magic that she has written before but, nevertheless, if you're on holidays and there's nothing else around, then it does while away a couple of hours.

Come on Jilly, you can do much better than that.

Rating:
Summary: Brilliant!!!
Review: I have read nearly every Jilly Cooper novel and I was slightly upset by the unfavourable reviews. While this book is different to Riders and Polo, it is still an excellent read. It is witty, wise, and great fun. Even if it is slightly unbelievable at times, I think it is wonderful. The characters are fantastic and i hope that one day i will be able to write such an exciting novel.

Rating:
Summary: Disappointing!
Review: I usually love Jilly Cooper, especially her book, "The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous". I also stormed through "Appasionata", which was a great read. However, this book was not up to her usually great standards. The characters were unrealistically over the top and I didn't like anyone, except for the tortured Tristan (who was a bit too tortured) and Lucy (who was too nice and weepy). Everyone hated everyone, and as I got to the end, I didn't even care who killed Rannaldini. These people consisted on a diet of hatred, venom, bad sex and so much alcohol, I'm surprised people weren't being rushed to the hospital for alcohol poisoning.

I will wait for her next book, but not with the normal breathless anticipation that I relished. To get the full Jilly Cooper effect, read "The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous" first. Then work your way to "Appasionata" and skip "Score" altogether.

Rating:
Summary: Super!
Review: `Singers are so often fired up after a performance, they want sex instantly.' Fwoaar! If only I'd known this during my school choir days. It's one of many useful tidbits of information to be gleaned from Jilly Cooper's new epic cultural romper-stomper of a blockbuster novel. Score! is the sixth tome from Cooper that is mainly set in Rutshire, her fictitious and unlikely English county. It is populated by handsome over-achieving men, gorgeous over-achieving women, two or three designer labels per page and lots of sex and intrigue. The score in Score! is this: big-shot conductor Sir Roberto Rannaldini's life ambition is to make a film of Verdi's opera, Don Carlos, with his godson director Tristan de Montigny. Both men attract beautiful women like flies to honey. A cast of dozens, most of whom loathe each other, coalesce as the film gets under way. Cooper can't write for toffee, but she has a fertile imagination and piles up the mystery. The first fifty pages or so are heavy going as the plot and characters are explained. There are lots of sentences filled with many commas as we learn who married who's neurotic ex-wife, and why, and what happened then, and what Sir Robert thought of it all. Still, Cooper has a bawdy sense of humour, and one wonders if much of her writing is done tongue-in-cheek: `Baby's attempts only to kiss Hermione between her jutting lower lip and her chin came to nothing: she sucked in his tongue like a Hoover. "That woman could suck Tasmania back to the mainland,'" Baby said. If you enjoy novels populated with people named Baby, Percival, Cosmo, Eulalia and Alpheus then Score! is for you.