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Jack & Amy #2
Come Again
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 - and all her best friend Amy wants to talk about his 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 ...
Friendship, commitment, work, lust and loyalty all come under the spotlight as Matt, H, Stringer and Susie hurtle towards the big day.
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 - and all her best friend Amy wants to talk about his 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 ...
Friendship, commitment, work, lust and loyalty all come under the spotlight as Matt, H, Stringer and Susie hurtle towards the big day.
400 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 1999
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August 19, 2022
enjoyed the first more, and the female characters are written sm better than the male - idk if it’s just bc of how men were at the time the book is set but still they need to sort themselves out
September 24, 2014
Todavía no encuentro un sentido a este libro. Cuando supe que habría más de Jack y Amy, me emocioné mucho, pero después, al leer este libro, salí completamente desilusionada. No solo no era una continuación de esa pareja, de su historia de amor, sino que era la historia de amor y desamor de otras dos parejas de amigos. Las dos historias principales acabaron muy mal, con todos los implicados rotos y solos, así que, aún menos le vi el sentido a este libro.
Y Jack y Amy solo aparecían para hablar de su boda. ¿Hola? Jack y Amy tenían muchas cosas que arreglar, y nada, todo entre ellos se arregló un estúpido y apresurado final en el libro anterior y en este no hubo nada de ambos. Jack fue violado al final del libro anterior, y Josie lo enfocó como si Jack hubiera sido infiel, es más, Jack y Amy rompieron por ello... y en dos minutos, volvieron a verse en la discoteca, y se dijeron "vamos a casarnos", y aquí están. Pero no hay nada de los dos.
Y mirando la blogosfera... me encuentro con que hay una tercera parte, una de siete años después, donde ya si la historia vuelve a centrarse en ellos, pero como la sinopsis apunta, allí ya no se aman ¬¬. ¿Hola? ¿Vamos a joder aún más al lector? Son cosas que no puedo comprender ¬¬
Y Jack y Amy solo aparecían para hablar de su boda. ¿Hola? Jack y Amy tenían muchas cosas que arreglar, y nada, todo entre ellos se arregló un estúpido y apresurado final en el libro anterior y en este no hubo nada de ambos. Jack fue violado al final del libro anterior, y Josie lo enfocó como si Jack hubiera sido infiel, es más, Jack y Amy rompieron por ello... y en dos minutos, volvieron a verse en la discoteca, y se dijeron "vamos a casarnos", y aquí están. Pero no hay nada de los dos.
Y mirando la blogosfera... me encuentro con que hay una tercera parte, una de siete años después, donde ya si la historia vuelve a centrarse en ellos, pero como la sinopsis apunta, allí ya no se aman ¬¬. ¿Hola? ¿Vamos a joder aún más al lector? Son cosas que no puedo comprender ¬¬
August 30, 2010
Although I liked the style of writing which is similar to the first book (come together) I found myself more interested in Jack and Amy than their silly friends. Another easy to read chick lit type book but just not as engaging as the first. I just didnt care about the characters.
April 15, 2014
Ok, but didn't enjoy it nearly as much as the first
January 26, 2024
I read this one Come Together 12 years ago; it is still my favorite.
Now I have decided it is finally time for this one, and I would not say it isn't good, but it doesn't click for me, the first part more than others.
But I do like this kind of adult rom-com because underneath superficial dialog hides the topic of being at a certain age and not knowing where you going, not having a partner, and a job you enjoy.
I think this one covered all of that between 4 characters.
Now I have decided it is finally time for this one, and I would not say it isn't good, but it doesn't click for me, the first part more than others.
But I do like this kind of adult rom-com because underneath superficial dialog hides the topic of being at a certain age and not knowing where you going, not having a partner, and a job you enjoy.
I think this one covered all of that between 4 characters.
July 11, 2017
On the whole it was okay, but each time it came to reading it I had to force myself to do so. It took me a long time to actually finish this as a lot of the time i just wasn't that interested in reading on. But as I hate to give up on a book, I pushed onwards.
I wouldn't recommend this as a must read, but if you were somewhere without any other book I would say... it was better than being completely and utterly bored. But you will most likely completely forget the story line 5 minutes after finishing the book.
I wouldn't recommend this as a must read, but if you were somewhere without any other book I would say... it was better than being completely and utterly bored. But you will most likely completely forget the story line 5 minutes after finishing the book.
July 7, 2017
Divertente, intelligente, scritto bene... a 19 anni dalla lettura del primo episodio della storia di Jack e Amy, non hanno perso niente della freschezza della prima parte.
E probabilmente, questo secondo mi è piaciuto anche di più.
E probabilmente, questo secondo mi è piaciuto anche di più.
May 19, 2024
Leuk vervolg op Heb mij lief. Waar bij het eerste deel Jack en Amy de hoofdpersonen zijn, draait het bij dit tweede deel om hun vrienden. Grappig verhaal over het vrijgezelle leven en het volwassen worden.
April 19, 2025
Easy to listen to, for me a great chick lit. I liked the characters. Not a massive plot but its life and how complicated we can all make relationships and situations. Including how we can all over think things.
August 31, 2020
Lagano letnje štivo, bez previše mozganja. Na momente duhovito, na momente detinjasto.
April 18, 2021
อ่านฉบับแปลไทยโดย กิ๊วก๊าซเกิร์ล
ชื่อไทย หนุ่มอยากหนาว สาวอยากอุ่น 2
สำนักพิมพ์แจ่มใส
ซื้อเมื่อ 15 มกราคม 2548
ชื่อไทย หนุ่มอยากหนาว สาวอยากอุ่น 2
สำนักพิมพ์แจ่มใส
ซื้อเมื่อ 15 มกราคม 2548
July 3, 2021
Ontspannend leesvoer, met plezier nog eens vastgepakt na 20 jaar.
July 8, 2023
3,5 ⭐️
May 4, 2024
Warm, motherly
September 1, 2024
Søt, men relasjonene mellom disse karakterene var ikke troverdige - det skjedde så fort og jeg klarte ikke å følge med på hvordan de føltes sånn.
April 6, 2025
Found it hard to follow with all the different characters. It took me until 3/4 of the way in before I started to enjoy it.
May 29, 2025
Het was echt niet voor mij, na pag 150 toch gestopt met lezen. Ik vond het heel saai
August 24, 2025
Prima boek om tussendoor snel te lezen. Leuk om van verschillende personages te lezen hoe ze het ervaren.
February 6, 2017
Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees bought something a little different to the chick-lit genre in 1998 with their debut collaboration “Come Again”. Whilst the standard chick-lit subjects of love, sex and breaking up were included, what made “Come Again” different was the writing for each main character was done by the author of the same gender. This avoided the age old genre problem of each gender’s perceptions of the other, which have frequently had characters acting in inappropriate ways, depending on the gender of the writer.
The authors have used the same technique here, but the scope of the story is widened. Rather than focussing on Amy and Jack this time around, although the backdrop of the story is their impending wedding and stag and hen nights, the story instead focusses on their friends. Matt, Jack’s former flatmate and now best man and H, Amy’s friend and maid of honour, were integral if not main characters in the previous book, but now step up. Stringer, a new character but an old friend of Jack’s, is working for the company who is catering the wedding and Suzie is another old friend of Amy’s who comes no closer to catering than her reputation as a man-eater.
This makes things a little more complicated than the relatively straightforward romance between Jack and Amy before. Especially as Matt and H have recently slept together and, whilst Matt is keen for it to go further, H has other plans, so Matt resorts to booking the stag weekend at the same venue H has chosen for the hen weekend in the hope they bump into each other. Suzie and Stringer, on the other hand, haven’t slept together, although Suzie would rather like to, which is a bit inconvenient as she’s decided she wants a relationship rather than a one-night stand. Stringer’s reputation is not dissimilar to Suzie’s, although whilst it is well earned and well deserved in Suzie’s case, the truth behind the rumours in Stringer’s past is a lot less interesting.
As before, the story is told from the perspective of these main characters, switching after each chapter and with chapter headings telling you who is telling the story at any given point. Unlike before, the chapters are of varying lengths, making it easier for each side of the story to give their view of a particular event at more or less than same time as the others, without having to wait a few pages for the perspective to change as happened in the earlier book. This offers the advantage of giving a more balanced perspective, as you get the competing view more closely together. However, it does make reading the book as a novel a little more of a patchy experience, as you often got bits where the same ground was being trodden on repeatedly before moving on, which sometimes felt as it the pace of the story had slowed as things weren’t moving forwards at that point.
This also meant that the issue that often afflicts chick-lit novels happened here as well, in that there is far too much going on. Each of the characters has multiple roles in this story, having multiple romantic entanglements, issues with their working lives and a role within the wedding parties. This expands the cast of characters to the point at which is it occasionally difficult to keep track of who is related to which character and which part of their lives at any given time, especially as their working lives are touched upon much less frequently than their personal lives and serve only to add unnecessary additional drama and complications that the story should have had enough legs to avoid under normal circumstances.
As with the original book in the series, a couple of aspects disappointed me. The sheer amount of action and coincidences made the book seem less realistic, as did Suzie’s financial situation, which was apparently precarious, but somehow money was available when required, which is a common genre failing for these types of novels. The ending was, once again, a huge disappointment as it was all too neatly wrapped up to have anything more than a nodding acquaintance with reality and some of the conversations that resulted in this ending were far too polite and personal to be anything other than plot devices.
“Come Again” is a bigger book than “Come Together”, but it certainly isn’t better, as whilst it retains the interesting narrative style, it falls for more genre clichés than its predecessor. That said, if you’ve enjoyed the former, you can hardly avoid the latter and it’s not going to disappoint you too much if that’s the case, even if it is a weaker companion.
The authors have used the same technique here, but the scope of the story is widened. Rather than focussing on Amy and Jack this time around, although the backdrop of the story is their impending wedding and stag and hen nights, the story instead focusses on their friends. Matt, Jack’s former flatmate and now best man and H, Amy’s friend and maid of honour, were integral if not main characters in the previous book, but now step up. Stringer, a new character but an old friend of Jack’s, is working for the company who is catering the wedding and Suzie is another old friend of Amy’s who comes no closer to catering than her reputation as a man-eater.
This makes things a little more complicated than the relatively straightforward romance between Jack and Amy before. Especially as Matt and H have recently slept together and, whilst Matt is keen for it to go further, H has other plans, so Matt resorts to booking the stag weekend at the same venue H has chosen for the hen weekend in the hope they bump into each other. Suzie and Stringer, on the other hand, haven’t slept together, although Suzie would rather like to, which is a bit inconvenient as she’s decided she wants a relationship rather than a one-night stand. Stringer’s reputation is not dissimilar to Suzie’s, although whilst it is well earned and well deserved in Suzie’s case, the truth behind the rumours in Stringer’s past is a lot less interesting.
As before, the story is told from the perspective of these main characters, switching after each chapter and with chapter headings telling you who is telling the story at any given point. Unlike before, the chapters are of varying lengths, making it easier for each side of the story to give their view of a particular event at more or less than same time as the others, without having to wait a few pages for the perspective to change as happened in the earlier book. This offers the advantage of giving a more balanced perspective, as you get the competing view more closely together. However, it does make reading the book as a novel a little more of a patchy experience, as you often got bits where the same ground was being trodden on repeatedly before moving on, which sometimes felt as it the pace of the story had slowed as things weren’t moving forwards at that point.
This also meant that the issue that often afflicts chick-lit novels happened here as well, in that there is far too much going on. Each of the characters has multiple roles in this story, having multiple romantic entanglements, issues with their working lives and a role within the wedding parties. This expands the cast of characters to the point at which is it occasionally difficult to keep track of who is related to which character and which part of their lives at any given time, especially as their working lives are touched upon much less frequently than their personal lives and serve only to add unnecessary additional drama and complications that the story should have had enough legs to avoid under normal circumstances.
As with the original book in the series, a couple of aspects disappointed me. The sheer amount of action and coincidences made the book seem less realistic, as did Suzie’s financial situation, which was apparently precarious, but somehow money was available when required, which is a common genre failing for these types of novels. The ending was, once again, a huge disappointment as it was all too neatly wrapped up to have anything more than a nodding acquaintance with reality and some of the conversations that resulted in this ending were far too polite and personal to be anything other than plot devices.
“Come Again” is a bigger book than “Come Together”, but it certainly isn’t better, as whilst it retains the interesting narrative style, it falls for more genre clichés than its predecessor. That said, if you’ve enjoyed the former, you can hardly avoid the latter and it’s not going to disappoint you too much if that’s the case, even if it is a weaker companion.
April 4, 2012
This is the continuation of the story come together. Jack and Amy are getting married. The story is about the lives of their friends matt, h, suzie,stringer. Stringer is preparing their wedding meal and they go out for a trail of the menu. Matt is orgainising the stag night and H is orgainising the hen night. Matt and H have a drunken night together and matt has fallen for H. He decides to go to the smae place as the girls are going for the hen night and he got the information from H. The friends lives are intermingled. when reading this you can actually think about people that you know and some of the things that happen in the book have happened to them.
September 6, 2013
Nice, enjoyable, entertaining but overall, I was not amazed. Maybe because i finished #1 only a couple of days ago. In the first book, the changing perspectives were fun, new and some sort of eye opening element. But in #2, there were maybe to many perspectives (although it was only 4), to me it was more of the same. Not bad of course but not as much fun as in #1
June 16, 2015
Persoonlijk vond ik dit een leuker boek om te lezen dan 'Heb mij lief'. Er zat hier meer afwisseling in tussen de karakters met meer verrassing wat ik juist miste bij 'Heb mij lief'. Jack en Amy hebben leuke vrienden die leuk in het verhaal omschreven worden. Alleen aan het karakter H. had ik een lichte hekel. Wat is zij deprimerend. Voor de rest vond ik het een heel leuk boek.
May 2, 2008
This was a light and enjoyable read. The story narrative keeps swapping between characters, so it can get a bit difficult to follow at times, but the story itself is quite entertaining. This revolves around the preparations for the wedding of Amy and Jack, and the lives of four of their friends.
November 17, 2011
I haven't read the first book so can't compare. I would say it was an easy and enjoyable read. The characters were believable and so were their circumstances (bar a few maybe). The only hideous thing about this book is he cover.
November 22, 2012
Couldn't read much of it, i might give it another shot in sometime later, i was sleepy all the time there was just one part of the book which i read and made me read more but then i was flying kites in my dreams with eyes open.LOLZ
November 29, 2016
Not a book I would normally read - it was picked off the shelf for me by my colleague. It was OK, and I did find I cared a bit about how the story would end, but not so much that I'm going to rush out and read other books by the authors.
July 10, 2007
not as good as come together. I would have loved this to be more about the main characters of the other book, but still cute.
October 25, 2007
Not quite as good as the first one but still pretty good.
November 14, 2007
Sequel of Come Together - not as good as the first part but a nice try. But how should being together be more romantic and exciting than coming together?
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