Ex-Girlfriends [Paperback]

Kylie Adams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2004

Stop the presses, America's favourite bachelor, Dean Paul Lockhart is getting married! For Lara Ward, it's a reason to go wild. The class act has her own party planning firm, a devoted maid, and a fabulous Manhattan apartment. What she doesn't have is a man. But when she spies Joaquin Cruz, the fireball Latin polo player with a rep for burning up the sheets, she sees her chance to really let go - and how...For society shutterbug Babe Mancini, it means revenge. Snapping candids of the rich, famous, and glamorous for glossy mag 212 has taught her the power of the right picture. And she's got some very personal photos of Dean Paul that her new beau, cable news hell raiser Jake James, would love to take public...For Gabrielle Foster, it's time to panic. She's buried her privileged past and reinvented herself as Brown Sugar, a take-no-prisoners rap priestess who lives by the laws of the streets. Now, with thug impresario AKA Bomb Threat on her arm, she's completed her street cred look, unless rival rapper Queen B (and this wedding) blows her cover...Faster than you can say high-strung Japanese Olsen twins, gay walkers, thug posses, PDH's (personal diamond handlers), breathy psychics, media wars, and high-profile fistfights (don't ask), three friends are about to reunite for the wedding of the century - and the ride of their lives - only to discover that the one that got away just might be the friendship that could see them through.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Ex-Girlfriends is a smile that never falters -- tabloid hilarity with a heart." -- Roz Bailey, author of Party Girls and Girls' Night Out

"Ex-Girlfriends is as smart as it is sexy . . . a truly moving story . . ." -- Holly Chamberlin, author of The Summer of Us

"Ex-Girlfriends is cutting, cunning and real. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough, couldn't forget the characters when it ended." -- Stephanie Bond, author of Cover Me

"Ex-Girlfriends is my favorite flavor . . . spicy! Kylie Adams's wit and intelligence make this book impossible to put down." -- Carmen Green, author of Atlanta Live!

"A razor sharp novel about the power of female friendships. Smart and funny! Don't miss it!" -- Patrick Sanchez, author of Girlfriends and The Way It Is

"Achingly hip, furiously funny and thoroughly unputdownable. I loved it!" -- Emma Gold, author of Easy and Hard

"Only the slyly savvy Kylie Adams could come up with a plot this fresh and funny . . . a laugh-out-loud romp . . ." -- Wendy Markham, author of Slightly Settled

About the Author

Kylie Adams is the author of four previous novels, Fly Me to the Moon, Baby, Baby, and the USA Today best-sellers The Only Thing Better Than Chocolate (with Janet Dailey and Sandra Steffen) and Santa Baby (with Lisa Jackson, Elaine Coffman, and Lisa Plumley). She is a contributing editor to The South, a regional bimonthly magazine that features her pop culture/humor column, "Kylie Says. " She lives with her Shih Tzu, Bichon Frise, and bitchy Persian in Brandon, Mississippi, where she is currently at work on Ex-Boyfriends, the follow-up to Ex-Girlfriends.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Kensington (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075820499X
• ISBN-13: 978-0758204998
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,092,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars True Friendships, April 18, 2004

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"ladeitra79" (san jose, ca United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ex-Girlfriends (Paperback)

This book explored the complexity of three professional women, who because of a common interest in a guy end there friendship. We see how each has tailored her life around this one guy. Somehow they realize that the friendship that they shared was more important than this guy, and begin to see what life is truely about. I would recommend this book to any women who at one point in her life has ended a friendship with someone that they miss, and wish they could start all over with that person.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The past has a funny way of catching up with you, January 28, 2006

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Shon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ex-Girlfriends (Paperback)

Meet Lara, Gabrielle and Babe. Three girlfriends from college until the unspeakable happens. They reunite at Dean Paul Lockhart's wedding, the wedding of the century. Little does each woman know the chain of events that will happen bcuz of a wedding invitation. Still fantasize about the one who got away? Still playing the "what if" game? Then read Ex-Girlfriends. I loved this book! It was hard to put down. I can't wait to read the follow-up Ex-Boyfriends.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars fun chick lit tale, November 19, 2005

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ex-Girlfriends (Paperback)

No one who knows America's number one bachelor believes that Dean Paul Lockhart is getting married even if his woman is a former Real World participant. The paparazzi look forward to crashing the gala, but so does some of the Lockhart women if he fails to invite his gal pals.

Party planner Lara Ward sees an opportunity if she can persuade Dean Paul to allow her to host the ceremony. She also needs a man at her side so she chooses hunky polo player Joaquin Cruz, but he wants more than just being girl candy.

Another former Lockhart female, photographer Babe Mancini sees an opportunity too, but hers is more destructive. She detests Dean Paul and wonders if she should provide some personal photos she has of the hunk to her new boyfriend, cable news Jake James just in time for I do.

Gabrielle Foster worries that her secret will be revealed as the tabloids dig five degrees of Dean Paul. She has hidden her affluent background in order that she can star as the rap queen Brown Sugar even concealing it from her boyfriend Bomb Threat.

EX-GIRLFRIENDS is a fun chick lit tale that is kind of odd because the only fully developed character is Dean Paul, mostly from the differing viewpoints of the women who have known him. Though somewhat stereotyped, the trio of female former friends come across different as they converge on the nuptials not knowing what to expect or who to trust even the men on their arms. Readers will want to attend the wedding of the century (Luke and Laura were in the previous century).

Harriet Klausner