Customer Reviews
Steamy! - By: Wayne Redhart, 30 Aug 2007 
This is a marvellous work of erotica, with no shortage of romantic gratification. I won't give away the details of the intricate story line, but you can rest assured that Pandora 'opens her box' on more than one occasion.
Lose yourself in Jilly - By: E. Whitaker, 15 May 2007 
I've grown up with Jilly throughout her "Rupert" novels - Riders being my favourite (read it aged 13, probably too young reallly), & Pandora is almost as good. I haven't been so engrossed in a book for ages. Her characters are lovely, including the animals, & I'd recommend this to anyone - better than Appassionata, The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous & as good as Rivals. Buy it for the beach.
Open Pandora's box and indulge - By: , 14 Jul 2005 What is particularly fantastic about this book, is the creation of brilliant characters. These characters are so entising & addictive, you won't be able to give them up. The books dark aspects appeal in a seductive way, whilst good will drives the reader to continue with the book in hope that alll will be resolved. The book revokes so much emotion which mimics the myth of Pandora. If you want to feel passionately enchanted with a book, then pick up Pandora!
a welcome return to form! - By: K. Morrison, 12 Jan 2005 I was surprised indeed to read that some people thought this book was weak. More surprised still at the people who thought it worse than Score! I loved this book, & for me it shows a welcome return to the form that brought us Riders & Polo. I thought Appassionata was a bit sub- par; it took me a few attempts to get into it. Then I thought that Score was weaker still, with the murder mystery simply not gelling & the characters unlikeable. It was with some trepidation that I picked this up.
I am SO pleased Jilly is back! The new characters, true to past stories, are either very endearing or wonderfully hateable. I wanted to strangle Anthea & hug Sophy, slap Emerald & invite Alizarin home for a square meal. As usual, the animals feature largely in the story & I admit to crying when one of the dogs died. There's a point in every Jilly book where an animal dies & I blub, actuallly!(Sailor, Tero, Mattie, Maggie, Visitor... I remember you alll!) The new characters- the Belvedon family- are mostly well characterised & give us hopefully more fodder for future books, & the old favourites are still knocking about. What sort of book would it be without R C-B?!
If you haven't read Jilly before, you can either read this first then go back & see what (and who) alll the characters were doing twenty- odd years ago, or start from the beginning with Riders. I wish I hadn't read any, so I could start at the very beginning alll over again!
Average - By: bex, 03 Sep 2004 
I adore Jilly Cooper's books & i couldn't wait to read this one, only to be hugely disappointed. The story didn't reallly pull me in & i was halfway through before irealised i din't reallly care what happened to any of them. usuallly Jilly's books are unputdownable. You promise yourself you'll stop reading at the end of the chapter, then find you're still reading an hour later, utterly gripped by the story. Not this time.
The characters aren't a patch on her old Rutshire set. I completely agree with some of the other reviewers that Emerald & Sienna are weak copies of Perdita. Zak & Jonathan, the two supposed heart throbs are nothing compared to Rupert, Bas or Jake. Only the brief flashes of Rupert, especiallly young Rupert, kept me going. Anthea annoyed me. Sophy's family were the best part of her book, especiallly her mother. Why they didn't throw Emerald out years ago, i'll never know.
Why can't we have another classic Rutshire novel complete with alll the old favourites? I'm sure that wih alll the scandelous goings on at Penscombe there's hundreds of stories to tell.
When i reached the end of Pandora, i reallly didn't care what happened to the painting, only that Rupert kept his house & whether Jilly's next effort would be back on par with her best.
