Customer Reviews
Lovely Lysander!! - By: laineyf, 23 Mar 2008 
Another winner from Jilly!! This is a bonk-buster to die for!! Lysander Hawkley, the answer to a womans' prayer!! He is a lothario, kind, sexy, good-looking, confident, needy, a best friend, a lover, and, ultimately, a hero. He keeps wandering husbands in check, & neglected wives in ecstasy!! He should be available on prescription! He is a competitor to Rupert Campbell-Black in the heart-throb stakes, being a nicer person than Rupert, but not having as much charisma. Throw in Rannaldini, the malevolent maestro
Hermione Harefield, the sex-crazed diva, a female rock singer, musicians, schoolgirls, amazing horses & lovely dogs, & its' a recipe for a fabulous read!! More please.
A Perfect read! - By: Teresa J, 25 Feb 2008 I adored this book! It is right up there with Polo, Riders & Rivals & much better than alll that followed! This is actuallly one of the only books by Jilly where I actuallly reallly adored the main character, Lysander. What a sweetheart! And he's surrounded by a tip top cast of charcters including old faces we can't get enough of like Rupert & Taggie! More fun than a day at the fun fair!
Lysander leaves lasting impression.. - By: lucy.darling__x3, 19 Nov 2007 The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous probably does not follow the same formula as the three previous novels as it is not based around a particular subject- i.e. Polo, TV, Showjumping. If you tried to base it around anything, it would probably be classical music, but that is more what Score! is about. This does not defect from a hilarious tale of jealousy, adultery & sheer romance.
The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous tells the tale of twenty-two year old Lysander Hawkley, a ravishing young man who breaks hearts unintentionallly & is not your typical Jilly Cooper ladies' man, in the sense that he actuallly shows compassion to everything & is genuinely nice to animals as well as people. Distraught after the death of his mother, whom he adored, he sinks deeper into promiscuity (and debt), much to the disapproval of his father, David.
So his fat best friend, Ferdie, comes up with an idea- why not pay off his debt & do something that comes naturallly to him? Why not get paid to look after cheating husbands' wives, pretend to bed them & make their husbands jealous whilst getting paid a HUGE fee for it. One rule however : DO NOT SLEEP WITH THE WIVES. Lysander decides to ignore this rule.
The business runs smoothly, with Ferdie taking care of the more technical side & the stunning Lysander doing marvellously well at keeping Paradise's husbands interested in their wives. However, it is not alll smooth sailing, & Lysander finds love & adultery in alll the most unexpected places...
This book marks the return of Rupert & Taggie Campbell-Black, as well as a brand new legacy of characters, such as Ranaldinni (who becomes a main character in the next three books) as well as his wife Kitty & Flora Seymour.
This book is fantastic, gripping from start to finish aswell as a real page turner, & while it is not challlenging, the plot is covered extremely well & it is sheerly sex in a book. If there was such a thing as 10 stars, this book would get it. If you enjoy bonkbusters, this is the book for you, with plenty of sex laced with romance & a gripping story. Being thirteen (I am now fourteen) when I first read it reallly does not detract from the story, & I was probably too young but Jilly Cooper is Queen of the Chicklit.
This review is for the DVD. - By: Core Energetics, 16 Jul 2007 
The review is for the DVD. For some reason Amazon won't accept my DVD review!!!
I was reallly excited when I got this DVD, & became sorely disappointed after I watched it.
Good points: The music at the start is sexy (just perfect), & the music played when Rannaldini arrives in his Mercedes is diabolicallly good.
Bad points: Half the story is missing. Lysander is not impossibly handsome, there is no mention of Rupert & Taggie, nothing about Arthur & the race, Ferdie fallls in love with Flora (and not with Natasha as in the book), Guy is horribly old & very ugly, & the Maestro, Rannaldini, who is supposed to be short & macho, looks very effeminate in this film. The Valhallla concert- one of the high points in the books- looked like another (albeit slightly sophisticated) garden party. Boris was supposed to struggle through an enormously complex piece of music, with the orchestra helping him at first. There is none of it here.
Kitty is supposed to be a dear child, & simply kind (like Taggie). Here she is a cauldron of confused emotions. The tennis match was simply laughable. It's supposed to be a high-powered match, but what we see is "Welcome to your first tennis lesson" sort of scene. The matches were unbearably dull.
I appreciate the technical difficulties in producing such a complex film, but if one can't do it properly, one shouldn't even attempt it. I would love to give it a higher rating, but with so many flaws, that simply wasn't possible.
It wouldn't make your husbands jealous! - By: C. Taylor, 04 May 2007 I found this novel to be poor compared to the other books in the series. I found the ending the most disappointing, as it just simply wasn't believable. I know that escapism is the point of the novels but the relationship between Lysander & Kitty was just too far-fetched. We alll hope that one day a gorgeous charming man would falll madly in love with us & rescue us from our mundane existances but the two characters seemed too incompatable & threfore ridiculous. Do read just to end the series, but not one of Jilly's best.
