Larger than Life: Someone has been keeping a secret...

Whenever I feel the need for some serious chick lit in my life Adele Parks novels are almost always one of my first port of calls after discovering young wives tales several years ago. The thing I love most about her novels is the way she isn't afraid to take a perfectly contented character and completely change the path of their life, however heartbreaking it is for the character and reader.Larger than life tells the story of Gerorgina aged 32 who since the age of 18 has been completely in love with Hugh despite the fact that in between them meeting and now he married one of her friends and had two childen with her. Everything about Georginas life has been centred around Hugh, her career choices, how much she weighs, who she socialises with, the music she listens to etc. Now Hugh has finally left his wife and moved in with her, Georgina unexpectantly discovers she is pregnant, at first Hugh seems pleased but his actions reveal something entirely different as the pair get closer to becoming parents.What I absolutely loved about this book was the complete evolution of Georgina as a character and person. In the beginning of the book Georgina starts off pretty sarcastic and smug, she thinks she has it all figured out now that she is with Hugh. As her pregnancy progreses and Hugh's behaviour deteriorates all her vunerability as a person comes out and she begins to challenge everything about her lifestyle and relationship with Hugh.I don't want to spoil the story for anyone but the ending really did make me emotional because I felt like Georgina had shown real courage and a massive strength of character to make some life changing decisions.If you are looking for some chick lit with a gritty story and a few twists then don't miss this.

It's very rare that I give up on a book, but I did this one. How did this ever get published? Georgie is supposed to be clever but it doesn't take long to realise that she isn't. So much utter dribble, couldnt relate to amy of the unpleasant characters. Dont waste your time or money.

This is the third book by Adele Parks I've read and it will be my last. I started with Whatever it takes which I liked. I enjoyed less About last night but went on to read Larger than life driven by the reviews and I didn't like it at all. I could not warm up to the main character, a woman chiefly defined by her obsession for a man, whose best friend is chiefly defined by her obsession to get married. Doesn't it sound a little too simplistic? For me the characters were poorly construed and the author tried to compensate for that by trying too hard to make the protagonist's pregnancy experience something that should have the reader read out loud. Most of the time I didn't and simply found the exaggerations annoying.

Boring boring boring and more boring!!Only read half the book, this was a struggle but as I had paid for it and usually enjoy Adele Parks I persevered to half wayIt's a diary of a pregnant neurotic woman, detailing where she throws up each day- gross!

Not as good read as all the other books by the same author