Product Description

From the author of Waiting to Exhale and Disappearing Acts comes a humorous, lively new novel about a woman who unexpectedly finds love but who just might be losing her mind. 750,000 first printing. $750,000 ad/promo. BOMC & QPB Main. Tour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1357731 in Books
• Published on: 1996-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

Customer Reviews

How Stella Got her groove back
For a writing style that is similar to the style I am writing this review in you will find a lovely story of a 42 year old woman who falls in lust with a 21 year old man whose best characteristic is that he kisses real nice and she has a son who tells her age is just a number so she goes ahead and continues the relationship if you like long run-on sentences without a comma or a period and can relate only to kids fresh out of highschool then this book is for you because thats the basic contents of the story really really I mean you will read long paragraphs and feel like you have to hold your breath just to read it and I got tired of the constant highschoolish jitters she got as she would wait by the phone for Winston to call and she'd have to be reassured each time that yes indeed he does care for her and there is nobody else I recommend this book highly if you want an easy read that you can read in a half an hour because it is easy to skip the long rambling parts.

VIBRANT AND EXUBERANT
Oh come on, people, stop criticizing this book just because it's not a heavy, philosophical tome! Who doesn't need to laugh once in awhile? I know I sure do and I did with this witty, vibrant, fun book. The characters are immensely likable, the setting is fun and the plot is a hoot. Thanks, Terry McMillan for a fun little romp in Jamaica!

Re-read this one, still can't find the groove...
Like another reviewer, I, too, recently decided to re-read this book in light of McMillan's highly publicized divorce from Jonathan Plummer, my morbid curiosity wanting to see if I had missed any "clues" in my first reading, over six years ago, that could have tipped me off to the eventual demise of their relationship.

And I, too, apparently didn't realize how badly-written it was the first time around. The run-on sentences, the two-dimensional characters, and of course, the endless, pointless descriptions of Stella's clothes and furniture and hotel rooms...

The love story in and of itself is sweet, but gets buried under the page-long sentences and laundry lists of Stella's many, many posessions, of which Winston, in a lot of ways, seems to be just another: the huge funky house, the nice car, the dizzying wardrobe of swimwear, and then the hot young Jamaican lover. I think the only reason Stella lost her groove in the first place is it was burried in her closet under a mountain of brand-new CDs and expensive clothes.