Dark Jewels [Paperback]

Lisa Jackson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: NAL Trade; First Edition. first thus edition (October 4, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451216903
• ISBN-13: 978-0451216908
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #367,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

#1 NYT and USA TODAY bestselling author Lisa Jackson started writing after her sister read an article in TIME Magazine in 1981 about how young mothers were making money writing romance novels. Both Lisa and her sister, Nancy Bush, began their writing careers right then, and lo, these many years later Lisa has published seventy-five plus novels and has no plans to slow down anytime soon.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 2 stars, December 11, 2008

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D. K. Stokes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Jewels (Paperback)

** Dark Ruby.

I just couldn't get over the premise of this book. The heroine's married to an evil man who's killed his last two wives because they didn't give him sons.

The hero's a thief who's hiding in her room while the midwife gives her a gyn exam to see if she's pregnant yet. She's not. She demands the thief get her pregnant to save her life, otherwise she'll turn him in & he'll lose his hands if not his life... and it turns out she's a virgin.

*bashing my head repeatedly on the desk* How stupid is this heroine? Talk about TSTL--this takes the cake.

The hero's not all that great, either. Once he returns to claim his son, he despises her for making compromises to save his son's life. I guess these two morons deserve each other, not that I could see any reason for them to fall in lurrve other than the hot nookie 12 years earlier which she forced on him.


**½ Dark Sapphire.

The heroine helps the hero escape from her father who's just killed the hero's father--they're both young. She asks him to take her with him. He doesn't, but he does take a sapphire ring that's said to be cursed.

Years later, they meet again when she stows away on his ship, running away because she killed her husband on their wedding night.

There's a lot going on--an evil stepmother, hidden parentage, feuding families, but it's a lot of busy-ness without much point.

And the heroine is the type for which idiotic defiance is confused with strength. I really started hating her when she was "asserting her independence" by insisting she could wander around freely on a ship full of men of questionable backgrounds who hadn't seen a woman in months. It's just tedious.