Still Thinking of You [Paperback]

Adele Parks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 28, 2006

THE WHOLE TRUTH . . .

Rich has always been skeptical about falling in love. Natasha has always fully expected to. And when these two find each other, they win the entire True Love package -- tenderness and hot sex and open-eyed kisses. Long weekends in bed and talk of marriage and babies. The kind of love where there's no room for secrets. That, after all, is what Tash says will keep them going strong: total and complete honesty.

. . . AND NOTHING BUT?

Now Rich and Tash are engaged, and Rich's old school friends crash into their love cocoon with big plans for celebrating, along with spouses and significant others, on a trip to a stunning French ski resort. But a lot can happen in a week that's meant to capture the free-spirited fun they all shared a decade ago. And in the glare of a whiteout on the slopes, Tash crosses paths with the one secret Rich should have kept: his colorful, vivacious, needy ex-lover, Jayne. . . .

Editorial Reviews

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"Compelling and full of 'that's-so-true' moments." -- Company

About the Author

Adele Parks is the author of the London Times bestsellers Playing Away, Larger Than Life, and Game Over. She lives in London with her son.

Visit her website: www.adeleparks.com

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Books; Original edition (November 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743496507
• ISBN-13: 978-0743496506
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,057,337 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars fascinating look at aging, December 9, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Still Thinking of You (Paperback)

Thirtyish Tash and Rich are in love. They talk about a future together, agree to marry and plan to elope to a French ski resort. They look forward to inviting their friends, many of them Rich has known and partied with for years to celebrate their marriage.

At first Rich's friends seem nice to Tash, but soon they begin to act childish, selfish and boorish. Adding to her discomfit is that instead of asking his buddies to cool it, Rich joins them. Tash begins to have doubts that loving Rich will prove enough as he disappoints her with his hedonistic attitude shared by his increasingly nasty towards her friends. Finally, the "She" arrives; the one that enthralled Rich when they were lovers in college. Will he go off with her during what was supposed to be his honeymoon or will he realize what he is about to lose for a few days of recapturing his early twenties?

Except for Tash, the rest of the cast is selfish trying to hang on to or recapturing their youth as time moves on. Neither Rich nor his friends seem particular nice as they are purposely stereotyped to be the transition decade from youthful exuberance and excess to middle age reasonability. Though difficult to read because of the attitudes of the players, Adele parks provides a fascinating look at aging, the final frontier.

Harriet Klausner

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not good, even for light reading., October 27, 2006

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Marina - See all my reviews

This review is from: Still Thinking of You (Paperback)

I'm embarrassed that I even read this book through to the end. The dialogue was wooden, the plot was was like something from a Harlequin romance from the `80s, (Yes, I know whereof I speak; my older sister used to bring them home all the time back then) and it was smattered with sex scenes that were anything but sexy. I might have overlooked all that if I had liked even one character, but somehow the author didn't create a single well-developed character in 550 pages plus. Alas, the potential I saw in the back-cover blurb kept me reading, hoping it would get better, but all I got was badly written chick lit, and poor editing to boot.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nasty, Immature,Snobbish , Selfish People, June 22, 2007

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M. J Soverall "ledare66" (Brooklyn, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Still Thinking of You (Paperback)

should have been the title of this book. I only finished it because one character was so crazy, I had to see what she would do next. How did the author expect anyone to really like this book when almost every single character is unlikeable except for Tash, who just seems a little too naive for her own good. Obnoxious and full of themselves, you can see why they're all friends, no one else would have them. You need to have some empathy for at least one person in the book, to really enjoy it, unfortunately, you can't do that with this book.