Some Girls - Jillian Lauren

Some Girls

By Jillian Lauren

  • Release Date: 2010-04-27
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4 (From 271 Ratings)

Description

A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser

At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.

More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.

Reviews

  • So honest and insightful as to the human condition without God

    By Annamariern
    A quick read offering every woman insight into her past.
  • some girls

    By N757SF
    not at all what I expected. Poignant and well written.
  • Amazing!

    By Sunderwal
    I could not put this book down...I was fascinated by her life story...friends, this is better than fiction, and juicier too!
  • Awesome!

    By Redza54
    This book is faifully like really true! OMG! I just can't belive what I just read.
  • Refreshing

    By Capt.Readsalot
    I first saw the author on the View and found her story intriguing for such a composed and well put together woman. Once lost, but now having found herself in life, Jillian Lauren's tale of a previous life is relatable, real, and refreshing. Because of the harem topic some may think the author is just another dimly lit reality star (ex: The Hills, The Girls Next Door, Octomom, etc), but instead this book is a tale of someone we should all aspire to be; your self. Ms. Jillian's depression, body image issues, home life, relationships, and longing to find herself is raw and so frustrating that she can't be misinterpreted as just another misguided star. She provides a sense of relief, inspiration, and a smile because in this world there's hardly the hope of escaping your past. Some Girls may sometimes be dull with detail, but isn't that life? Life can't always be rainbows and Lucky Charms, life as Ms. Jillian proves is about about living, learning, and loving yourself. A message that refreshingly, rings loud and clear in Some Girls.

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