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karak's review against another edition
2.0
Ugh, my god is Jillian Lauren whiney.
She's only about 5 years older than me, yet her life seems like it takes place in an entirely different decade.
She's only about 5 years older than me, yet her life seems like it takes place in an entirely different decade.
esselleayy's review against another edition
3.0
Fascinating details about life in Brunei from a not so fascinating writer. I have a love-hate relationship with memoirs in general.
contadine's review against another edition
1.0
A potentially very interesting story made incredibly boring. Like having the plot of a movie described to you by someone with Aspergers. No emotion, nothing that makes you either love or hate the narrator. "And then this happened, and then that happened, and then flashback-to-my-dad-beating-me, and then this happened and then that happened." One giant snooze.
keclark's review against another edition
2.0
I felt sad while reading this book. Sad about the choices made and the way the author to grow up. I am glad of the ending but realize that not all stories end that way.
vanities's review against another edition
3.0
This book was going so fast and full of events to keep me interested and then got really dull. I understand the author's behavior up until she gets a pussy tattoo and thinks this is a life changing big deal. She then goes right back to what she was doing a year before. Proof that tattoos are only ink, genius. I liked most of the book & wish I could have given it five stars but like I said the end sucks. *shrug.
hstuart3's review against another edition
3.0
I really wanted to like this book...adoptive mom, wife of someone in Weezer...and I also wanted to hate this book...I felt like the book was portrayed as if she was duped into the harem but clearly she is a smart girl. In the end, I kind of hated myself for liking the book. It was definitely an easy, and interesting, read about a smart girl who made dumb choices and put herself in the harem...twice.
karinajean's review against another edition
3.0
of all of the current memoirs that I've read lately, this is definitely one of the least frustrating and best written. very little navel gazing, actual facts (?) and even though the author really had some issues to work through, it wasn't a huge emo recap.
violetu's review against another edition
3.0
As it turns out, life in a harem is pretty much exactly as I imagined life in a harem.
tortue_abroad's review against another edition
2.0
Sometimes you keep reading a train wreck of a book because you liked an interview with the author you heard once and think, haven’t super liked the beginning of this and have no reason to think it’ll get better but here I go I guess.
shinychick's review against another edition
2.0
I found myself definitely wanting more from this, which, as it was, was pretty disheveled for a memoir. I often find that non-celebrity biographies are not as good as I wish they were... Jillian Lauren's story is supposed to be the story of a girl in a harem, and it is that. However, it's also her story of being a sex worker, an actress, a orphan, a feminist performer, an alcoholic, et cetera. I get that her life is big, in the sense that most people in the world will never have the amount of experiences she has had in is 35-ish years, but for someone who has done a lot, I still found this memoir lacking something.