Original Sin - Tasmina Perry
Tasmina Perry writes another excellent book - Original Sin - Tasmina Perry Fiction Book

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Tasmina Perry writes another excellent book
Original Sin - Tasmina Perry

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Original Sin - Tasmina Perry

Date: 22/07/10, updated on 22/07/10 (21 review reads)

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Advantages: Exciting characters, lots of scandal and sucks you in as though it's real - excellent writing style

Disadvantages: Quite long so need time to read it, bit slow in the middle

Tasmina Perry writes another outstanding novel. I read Gold Diggers, another book of hers, which was the first to encapsulate me into her writing style - sex, scandal and celebrity gossip, what more could you want!

The story follows the struggles, break-ups and make-ups of the respected Asgill family and of Tess Garrett; the young English journalist who gets hired by the head of Asgill family to protect their secrets from the public and hold their place as respected socialites.
The book begins by introducing Tess - keen to be a news editor, but stuck in a dead-end job as a journalist. She discovers a scandalous story about one of the Asgill children, and is ready to print until Meredith Asgill - the head of the Asgill family and the Asgill Cosmetics company, hires her as their new publicist to prevent such scandal about any of her 4 children and their partners from becoming public knowledge. With one of the children, Brooke, set to marry one of the richest and most eligible bachelors in America, Tess has her work cut out in hiding the secrets that this family so wish to keep - as well as finding out a few of her own.

The book is quite long at 512 pages, but it's worth the read - one that could be saved for a good holiday read. You get sucked right into the lives of all the characters and the number of twists and turns have you feeling and thinking of their experiences as real life. A bit slow in the middle, but once you get past the bits that drag (mostly the backgrounds of the less important characters, but it's stuff that you need to know), you won't be able to put it down. Anger, sadness, lust - so many emotions, and Perry manages to bring the reader into feeling every one just as mush as the character does. Another excellent yarn.

Summary: Perry writes another smashing novel that just keeps the reader wanting more.