Customer Reviews

Score!

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

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!

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...

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.

Well I've read just about every Jilly Cooper book going (sad, I know). And I'm afraid that this one simply doesn't cut it. The heroes and heroines are as racy as ever, but the plot is frankly as lame as an overplayed polo pony, and the villain isn't up to much either. Still it's good and you want to stay up all night reading it (I did, anyhow). But you know what, "Riders" or "Rivals" or better yet "Polo" are just SO much better.

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.

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.

I have devoured the other "Rutshire" books by Jilly Cooper and would rate them all as five stars, however I am disappointed by the lack of character development in "Score!" I note from reading the author's note at the back that Jilly Cooper was asked to cut back on the length of the book, I assume this is the reason that characterisation which is usually so superb, is stifled. Lucy, for example, is developed only as much as a very secondary character would have been in the earlier novels. I was also disappointed that Jilly, as an animal lover, would include a scene such as that which occurred at Rannaldini's death - this ruined the book for me to some extent - but then I'm a squemish vegetarian! I look forward to Jilly's next novel, and hope the publishers don't intervene again!!!

I look forward to reading her books and I love the familiar characters that appear in each novel. I can't wait to read the book and then I don't want it to end. When is the next one coming out??

This is my first attempt at reading Jilly Cooper. This was a trade-in at a second-hand book store, and at first I was daunted by the size of the book. The first couple of chapters did not excite me all that much, but I found myself slowly, but surely getting engrossed with every page. I can't comment on whether or not the plots, storylines or characters are believable, but I can say without hesitation that this has been an enjoyable read (and I'm not even through with it!). There have been moments when I literally laughed out loud! I'm looking forward to reading more of Ms. Cooper's work.

Like the previous reviewers am I a big Jilly Cooper fan and have read all the books from riders up until this Score.
I think in this one is simple a big mistake and I wonder why a good editor didn't attend Jilly Cooper at it.
After Ranaldini was killed nobody thought one second about the body. It was brought to the morgue and that was that.
It is very unlikely that the family ( Helen, Wolfie )were not occupied with organizing the funeral.
It is very unlikely that Hermione didn't see any role for her on the funeral.
It is very unlikely that the inhabitants of the book were not fighting over their places at the ceremony.
It is very unlikely that a man as famous as Ranaldini did not get a big enormous funeral with at least Royal attention.

It is very 'jammer' that we readers don't get anything from the funeral. It must have been really something!

It made the book for me rather weak.

Kind regards, Henny Jellema ( Netherlands)