Sapphire Jones doesn't believe in relationships anymore -not since she caught her husband in bed with another woman. Now Sapphire only sees men on her terms which is why her current lover is younger, good looking, doesn't place any emotional demands on her [so far, fingers crossed] and is great in bed. What more does a girl need?
Sapphire puts all her passion into running her own business - a high end lingerie and hen weekend company. She is doing well and life seems pretty good until she meets a very handsome, charming businessman who seems more than a match for Sapphire. When things go horribly wrong at a high profile hen night Sapphire has organised, she finds herself making tabloid headlines for all the wrong reasons....
Suddenly her business is in jeopardy, her well-controlled private life is falling apart, and in the middle of all this Sapphire realises that she is not immune to love after all, but has she left it too late?
Rating: 4 Stars
Positives: As always with Katie Price's books the characters are well thought out and easy to warm too. Sapphire is instantly a favourite, being someone who I would love to be like. She is an extremely determined young woman who doesn't seem to let anything stand in her way and she's extremely ambitious. We see her develop well over the story, in fact most of the characters develop and I especially love how much Alfie changes. We're led to believe that as Sapphire's ex husband he is a womanising prick, but he actually turns out to be a pretty nice guy in the end who has matured.
My second thing that I love about Sapphire is that for once we aren't exposed to the whole world of celebrity. Instead Sapphire is a businesswoman in her own right, and her main love interest is a personal trainer. We see new challenges posed within Sapphire from the horrible Markov, a Ukranian desperate to look like a legitimate businessman but who is an exceedingly dangerous man. However because Sapphire is set in Brighton, Sapphire does have a celebrity friend in the form of Cal Bailey who readers will recognise from Katie Price's other books. But despite this Sapphire herself is a much more relatable character than the characters from previous books.
Thirdly I love that Sapphire chooses to make the decision not to hurt her friend Sam, instead choosing to make herself miserable instead. That's a hard decision for anyone to make, and it's nice to see that Katie Price has given her main character a conscience.
Negatives: Firstly I have no idea if this was just a mistake with the ebook publication, but the grammar was atrocious. There were so many mistakes that a simple proof reading could have picked up, and these mistakes really detracted from the story. Its harder to lose yourself in the book if you're constantly having to work out what is meant to be happening. One classic example is that a character asks "How you?" instead of "Have you?" There were also other mistakes but this is the one that jumps most clearly to mind.
Secondly we're supposed to love Jay as a character given that he is Sapphire's primary interest, but I felt that when he starts dating one of her best friends later on in the book it only makes him look like a bit of a bastard. Sorry but that's my opinion, and it only lowered my opinion of Sam as well. One of the classic rules of dating is that you don't date your friends ex, even if you didn't think it was serious between them. As such it only makes both Sam and Jay look like unfeeling people who don't care for Sapphire's feelings.
Would I recommend this book? If you don't mind trying to get past the grammatical errors then Sapphire is well worth a read. Definitely one of Katie Price's better books.
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