How Stella Got Her Groove Back (McMillan) - Book Reviews

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Terry McMillan is the only novelist I have ever read...who makes me glad to be a woman.... Fans of McMillan's previous novels, the hugely popular Waiting to Exhale and the more critically esteemed Disappearing Acts and Mama, will recognize McMillan's authentic, unpretentious voice in every page of How Stella Got Her Groove Back. It is the voice of the kind of woman all of us know and all of us need; the warm, strong, bossy mother/sister/best friend.
Liesl Schillinger - Washington Post Book World


So much fun in so many ways...a down-and-dirty, romantic and brave story told to you by this smart, good-hearted woman as if she were your best friend or your sister.
New York Newsday

A confessional, sister-can-you-understand-this open diary....I laughed out loud.
Boston Globe

The novel sparkles.
Chicago Sun-Times


A riotous, sexy book...told in the inimitable voice of Stella, who will charm the reader from the first page.... Fans and first-time readers will be hooked.
Richmond Times Dispatch


A liberating love story...tells women it's okay to let go, follow your heart, take a chance and fall in love, even if that love comes from a place you'd least expect.
Orlando Sentinel


[A] a fairy tale.... [R]eaders who have been yearning for a Judith Krantz of the black bourgeoisie—albeit one with a dirty mouth and a more ebullient spirit—will be pleased with this fantasy of sexual fulfillment.
Publishers Weekly

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[A] tossed-together tale.... The love story provides a suitable frame for the author's trademark charm and credible sense of black middle-class values, but sloppy prose and a single, rather solitary protagonist fail to give readers the synergistic magic of the earlier book.
Kirkus Reviews