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Jasminium
It’s been twenty years since the horrible incident that changed the lives of Taj and Cheyenne—but there is still hope that they can free themselves from the memories and feelings that haunt them and bound them together.Imagine you are in New York City two weeks before Christmas. Snow covers the ground and lights twinkle along the streets as warmly dressed shoppers brave the elements. An aging church beckons you with its open doors, and the sweet songs from carolers assail your senses. As you move closer and join in with the singing, you suddenly hear a voice whispering a phrase that you haven't heard in ages. You turn slowly as the color drains from your face, and you find yourself facing him, the person you haven't seen in twenty years. Thus begins Jasminium, a novel that introduces Taj and Cheyenne. They were young when they met, but a horrific experience robbed them of their innocence. Seeing each other again brings back haunting memories and feelings of passion that have lain dormant, just below the surface, and seemingly out of reach. Jasminium explores the path taken by these two people as they attempt to free themselves from the ghosts of their pasts and reconnect with the feelings and emotions that have bound them inexplicitly together.
230 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 4, 2003
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July 3, 2016
Wow, and not in a good way. I really wanted to enjoy this book and was very excited about reading a Devon Scott book for the first time, but this was not a good read for me. I can't decide if this is a case of bait and switch, or if I was just completely wrong in my perception of what I was going to get. There is no sense of a great romance or strong sense of love between Cheyenne and her husband Malcolm, or Taj and his fiance Nicole, or even Taj and Cheyenne for that matter. I thought that I was going to get some sort of romantic love somewhere in this story, but that was not to be. That would have been fine, if what I had gotten was a story with a well formed full circle moment that made sense, but I didn't really get that either.
Cheyenne and Taj have kept their shared horror a secret from the world and after a chance encounter in New York, things begin to quickly unravel for them both. Cheyenne's husband proves to be a jerk of the first order, and what I would consider abusive as well, yet he's still a good husband? Taj won't open up to Nicole, even to put her mind at ease with partial truths, and she is supposed to be his soul mate? What Cheyenne and Taj have endured would scar anyone, yet they never received any help from professionals to help them work through their traumas. This didn't make any sense to me, especially when there was supposedly some kind of financial compensation later on. There were a few other details that didn't seem to sync up that I can't disclose because they are spoilers. Suffice it to say that they were all 'what the heck' moments. Taj's and Cheyenne's individual full circle moments brings them back to the same place and what happens between them did not sit well considering how the book ends. MAN! Everything that bothers me would make this review full of spoilers. I can say that Taj and Cheyenne did not come to a place to heal together, they moved through things separately, and only ended up back in the same place by coincidence, which was probably meant to have been interpreted as a fated encounter.
If you are looking for a romance, this isn't one. If you are looking for a story where two people live through a horror and you are taken along on an emotionally charged and poignant journey with them, this ain't the one. It wasn't easy, but I did actually finish the story. Scott had me hoping all the way until the last chapter that something, anything, would miraculously happen to make me say that it was a good story. However, that didn't happen either. In the end, I was simply left frustrated and disappointed.
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Cheyenne and Taj have kept their shared horror a secret from the world and after a chance encounter in New York, things begin to quickly unravel for them both. Cheyenne's husband proves to be a jerk of the first order, and what I would consider abusive as well, yet he's still a good husband? Taj won't open up to Nicole, even to put her mind at ease with partial truths, and she is supposed to be his soul mate? What Cheyenne and Taj have endured would scar anyone, yet they never received any help from professionals to help them work through their traumas. This didn't make any sense to me, especially when there was supposedly some kind of financial compensation later on. There were a few other details that didn't seem to sync up that I can't disclose because they are spoilers. Suffice it to say that they were all 'what the heck' moments. Taj's and Cheyenne's individual full circle moments brings them back to the same place and what happens between them did not sit well considering how the book ends. MAN! Everything that bothers me would make this review full of spoilers. I can say that Taj and Cheyenne did not come to a place to heal together, they moved through things separately, and only ended up back in the same place by coincidence, which was probably meant to have been interpreted as a fated encounter.
If you are looking for a romance, this isn't one. If you are looking for a story where two people live through a horror and you are taken along on an emotionally charged and poignant journey with them, this ain't the one. It wasn't easy, but I did actually finish the story. Scott had me hoping all the way until the last chapter that something, anything, would miraculously happen to make me say that it was a good story. However, that didn't happen either. In the end, I was simply left frustrated and disappointed.
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