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Book Reviews Title Come
Again Fiction-Net
Rating Buy It
From Amazon.co.uk - BUY
NOW! Cover
Story Friends. You
can't live with them - and you can't live without
them. Or so Matt
is discovering. His best mate is getting married,
leaving him high and dry. No flat-mate - and no
girlfriend. Then he remembers Helen
(H. to her friends). H. has no life outside
her brilliant career - but she isn't even sure she
likes her job. And all her best friend Amy wants to
talk about is her wedding. Which suits Stringer,
because catering the wedding is his first real
chance to prove himself. The last thing he needs is
to fall for one of the bride's friends, Susie,
particularly because she's sworn off men while she
sorts out her life... We
Say Written as the
sequel to the classic 'Come Together' by the same
authors, Come Again is asked to deliver a lot. The
original set new standards and a great recipe where
two main characters each took turns to tell the
story. Chapter one him. Chapter two her. Chapter
three him, and so on. It may sound simple but it
worked to perfection in telling the story of Jack
and Amy. Come Again is
based upon the wedding of Jack of Amy though you
never hear from the two directly. This is the
authors' first mistake. Many people will have
purchased this book to hear again from the two
characters they became so fond of. Not to hear from
them except through their friends can only
disappoint but in the case of Come Again, the story
is told from the point of view of Matt (Jack's
flat-mate from the first book) and H (Amy's best
friend from the first book). We are also introduced
to two other characters who join in the
story-telling, namely Stringer (friend of Jack) and
Susie (friend of Amy). Confused yet? The story is
split in three parts. Part one deal with general
introductions and the build up to the stag-do and
hen-night (both of which kind of become one event).
Part two deals with those events themselves and
part three the couple of days surrounding the
wedding. Part one is a
huge disappointment. I cannot stress enough how
appallingly part one hits you. After the initial
shock of realising that you are not going to hear
directly from the main two characters, you have to
deal with those two characters having totally
changed in the time since the first book. Amy has
become a bubble-head with no personality and Jack a
seedy and crude loudmouth. Quite where these traits
came from is hard to fathom. Come Together had
portrayed them both as thoroughly likable
characters. It is perhaps
beneficial then that part two deals mainly with the
four friends and less about Jack and Amy, because
if part one borders on awful, part two borders on
perfection. Quite where the transformation arrives
from is unclear but the characters develop depth,
feelings and become likable. In short, you begin to
care just as you were about to switch off.
Part three, the
wedding itself, is quite short and tails off a
little in the interest stakes but part two will
still be fresh enough in your mind to leave a sweet
taste. With any luck, you will have forgotten the
bitterness of the opening chapters. Review by: Rob
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