Jackie and Maria by Gill Paul
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From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a story of love, passion, and tragedy as the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwined―and they become the ultimate rivals, in love with the same man.
The President's Wife; a Glamorous Superstar; the rivalry that shook the world...
Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. Life in the public eye with an overly ambitious--and unfaithful―man who could hardly be coaxed to return from a vacation after the birth of a stillborn child was breaking her spirit. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes...to a meeting that will ultimately change her life.
Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's introduced to Aristotle Onassis, the world’s richest man and her fellow Greek. Stuck in a childless, sexless marriage, and with pressures on all sides from opera house managers and a hostile press, she finds her life being turned upside down by this hyper-intelligent and impeccably charming man...
Little by little, Maria’s and Jackie’s lives begin to overlap, and they come closer and closer until everything they know about the world changes on a dime.
The President's Wife; a Glamorous Superstar; the rivalry that shook the world...
Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband. Life in the public eye with an overly ambitious--and unfaithful―man who could hardly be coaxed to return from a vacation after the birth of a stillborn child was breaking her spirit. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes...to a meeting that will ultimately change her life.
Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's introduced to Aristotle Onassis, the world’s richest man and her fellow Greek. Stuck in a childless, sexless marriage, and with pressures on all sides from opera house managers and a hostile press, she finds her life being turned upside down by this hyper-intelligent and impeccably charming man...
Little by little, Maria’s and Jackie’s lives begin to overlap, and they come closer and closer until everything they know about the world changes on a dime.
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The whole world knows Jackie Kennedy and that was my main reason to read this book, I wanted to know how her life would intertwine with this Maria Callas and man was it amazing how Gill Paul did this book and made a masterpiece. I loved reading how these two women's life, so different and so far away from each other but at the same time so close together with each other.
We get to follow Jackie's story line from when she met JFK and how they started dating and we even get some stories of her past boyfriends from before JFK. From when she decided Jack was her love, we see how her life changed, for better or for worse? Well, you be the judge, at least from this book. However, from this book's point of view, Jackie is the wife that follow's Jack even if she hates politics, but she stays by his side and "supports" him. She becomes the first lady that America loved, or hated at the beginning because of her expensive clothes (sounds kind of familiar). She becomes legendary when JFK dies and even afterwards. But years after she gets married to a very rich man, Aristotle Onassis.
Maria Callas, opera singer, a legend on her time. Can you see her and Jackie's lives intertwined? No, right? Well, we are wrong, so wrong. But back to Maria. Maria started her career very, very young, but her voice was magic and she stole the hearts of millions with it. But one thing that didn't go right for Maria? The hearts of the people that loved her. Starting with her family, her mother never loved her, and took advantaged of her even when she was a little girl, Then, she got married really, really young to someone who was much, much older than her. She thought she had found the love of her life, her husband did everything for her, he was her manager, managed all her business. Why couldn't she trust him, she rescued her from her family so she trusted him, the only thing she was missing was a child. And, as the years went by, the older she got and the older the husband got and the less he touched her and no kids for them, it was like he lost interest in her. And then she met Aristotle Onassis. He woke something in her that she didn't even realize she was missing, and she was so happy when she was near him and with him. And she left her husband and him his wife so they could be together. With Aristotle in her life, she finds that her life is turned upside down with this man, but being this happy she will do anything to continue to be this way. Until Aristotle does the unthinkable.
And these two women's world collide with each other and they will never be the same.
Man, there was so much going one at all times, so much family drama, so much romance drama...it was epic and even at the end you wanted more because you knew there had to be more, right?
Beautifully done.
4 out of 5 stars.
XOXO,
Nelia
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