Some Girls
My Life in a Harem
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3.9 • 280 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher 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.
Customer Reviews
So honest and insightful as to the human condition without God
A quick read offering every woman insight into her past.
Not particularly interesting insights
The first half is well-written and moderately interesting. The second half is like reading the journal of a not particularly interesting teenager. The problem is that the author is the main character. Brunei = interesting at first and then boring. After Brunei = boring.
One of my favorites
This is such a well written and honest book, Jillian is an amazing author.