How Stella Got Her Groove Back

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Summary: Almost a 3 and a half rating.
Review: This book was fun and overall I enjoyed it but it took me awhile to finish it because the story didn't retain my interest enough to want to keep turning the page. The story and characters as well as the writing style was different and fun, but overall I wouldn't put this on my high recommended reading list. Some of my friends adored this book, as for me, nope. It was ok-pretty good, definitely not great.

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Summary: McMillan writes a book to ease her own anxiety.
Review: How Stella Got her Groove back by Terry Mcmillan is about a forty year old divorced woman named Stella who's alone and very lonely. Stella is a very succesful single mother. She has a great job, her own house and is raising a twelve year old son by herself. While her son is off on vacation with his father she decides to take a little trip of her own to Negril, Jamaica. While she is there she meets a young man named Winston that she seem to be very attracted to.However,she doesn't know what or how to feel because she is twenty years older than him! I think McMillan, the author, wanted to share her feelings about how she felt about a young man that is now her husband. She was scared and didn't know what to feel so she expressed her feelings in the story. I like the book because the author made everything seem so real and I loved Winston he is the dream man for every woman. The book is so good you can't put it down you want to know what Stella is going to do.

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Summary: Superhuman characters, stagnant plot, intrusive style.
Review: Stella, a divorced mother, is perfect. Not only is she financially successful, superbly educated (3 degrees) and artistically savvy, she possesses a self-awareness which seems downright impossible. Rivalled only by her smart, obedient and emotionally precocious 11-year-old son, Stella does not need a new groove: she needs a human side. Stella's trip to Jamaica and fling with a 21 year old is an interesting daydream, but the book should have ended with her return to the U.S. and not drawn out the saccharine phone calls and tormented emotions of her growing love for him. All 450 pages of Stella's mental thrashings are punctuated by a lack of puncation, namely commas and periods, and a chatty style that's all style and very little substance. A quick, effortless read, but not for the easily bored.

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Summary: Great Book, Lacking Film
Review: I have been a two-time reader of Terry and I found STELLA to be almost as interesting as WAITING TO EXHALE. While the language had to be worked around, the description of the "trips" that Stella goes on is fantastic. This is where the movie lacked. We are not able to see the imagery that McMillan presents in the novel. STELLA just needs to be given a chance. The tale is great and describes the wonder and fantasy that truly comes with Jamaica. You Go Girl!!!

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Summary: I think that this book was very good book.
Review: How stella got her groove back by Terry McMillian is about a fourty-two year old woman who is searching for love. She took a vacation to jamaica where see meet this guy name Winston . winston is young , but she doesn't really mind .She goes back home after a week and tells her family about her adventures. They really didn't approve about what happend down in Jamaica. The two began to fall in love and can't live with out each other. I think that the author of this book Terry McMillian that you can find love no matter the age , ethnic background, or color. the charcter Stella had to make a lot of hard choices. Her choices lead in to a great relationship where she found happiness. The charcter stella seemed like she was a very good, and real person. She acts the same way that some of family members act. I really like this book and hope to see more of her books.

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Summary: Terry, please don't write another book.
Review: I can't take it anymore. I liked Waiting to Exhale so I've read other McMillan books, but no more. We don't care about your May-December romance. There is no substance here. It just makes me sick that something so bad can make someone so undeserving millions!

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Summary: THE BOMB, ONLY A REAL WOMAN CAN RELATE TO STELLA
Review: I read the book then I seen the movie and felt as if I was stella her self. The way Winston made her feel I can relate because I've been there and done that but, only in Hawaii.

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Summary: Every Woman's Fantasy
Review: This book was all that and a super size bag of chips. I really felt like I was right there in Stella's mind. She feels like every woman does at some point in her life. I think it's great how the age difference didn't matter. It is a very romantic novel. I hope every female finds her Winston, Lord knows we all need one. It made me want to hop a flight to Jamaica right away and find my Winston Shakespeare. Some people may say it can never happen in reality,but I don't agree.I believe anything can happen with plenty of prayer and faith in the MAN upstairs.Even if couldn't happen,so what??!! Isn't that what books are for? To indulge yourself in a separate world from what is considered "normal". I think this book is a fantasty that every woman would like to have fulfilled. If she says no, then she would be lying. I would definetely love to see a sequel to the book and the movie. The only part I didn't like was the words running together.

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Summary: If only there was something on television.
Review: I would have put that book down a lot sooner if I had anything else to do that night. The characters were uninteresting; the story was flimsy at best, and the train-of-thought writing style gave me a headache. This book was not at all on level with her other works.

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Summary: A perfect world
Review: Stella has a perfect body, a perfect son and a perfect house. She has a perfect job that she isn't really happy with but that is OK because she has made perfect investments and she is an talented artist so she doesn't need it. The only thing that she doesn't have is a perfect man so she goes on a perfect holiday and finds one. Is there anyone out there that can actually relate to anything that happens in this book? Reading this is like stumbling into the secret daydream fantasy of the author, you get the feeling that you shouldn't really be here and that these things would be best left to her own inner world. An uncomfortable book to read and one that I couldn't wait to finish.