Product Description

Fern is glaring thirty in the face and can’t ignore the love lies any longer. Life with Adam was amazing once – although these days swinging from the chandeliers means D.I.Y not S.E.X. She believes a romantic wedding should be the next step but Adam just won’t go down on one knee. Then a chance meeting with Scottie Taylor – the UK’s sexiest pop star – lights fireworks in Fern that won’t stop exploding. It’s mind-expanding love at first sight for them both so when he proposes in front of a sell-out crowd at Wembley Stadium, there’s only one answer. Yes, yes, yes! Before you know it, Fern is living the celebrity dream in LA and a wedding planner is arranging designer shoe fittings. But isn’t it all happening a little too fast? Why is this modern day Cinderella homesick for a rented two-bedroom flat in Clapham? How do you know whether love is telling the truth? Fern must choose which version of this fairy tale is hers …

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2853 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-30
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Review
'Another sure-fire hit' Closer 'Parks has produced another sassy blinder' Mirror

About the Author
Adele Parks was born in Teesside, north-east England, and now lives in Guildford with her husband and son. She is the author of eight bestselling novels, including the iconic Playing Away and, more recently, Husbands, Young Wives' Tales and Tell Me Something.

Customer Reviews

Adele Parkes - Love Lies
I've read all of Adele Parks books and this is my least favourite. It was entertaining, but was extremely easy to read and didn't hold my interest. The characters were unrealistic, under-developed and stereotyped, which made their parts dull and uninteresting. Characters who could have been more interesting took a backseat while the more important ones weren't utilised fully.

The story centres of Fern, who is so wrapped up in the idea of turning thirty that she irrationally places an ultimatum on her boyfreind of four years. When he doesn't deliver she throws herself into a new relationship with heart-throb-come-stroppy-diva Scottie Taylor (think Robbie Williams only to more excess). From there she is whisked away to LA to start her new life. This screams *rebounding crush* and *PR stunt* but this is something Fern learns very slowly as she's blinded by the novelty. Everyone else (outside the couple) knows but she doesn't.

The moral of the story is that money can't buy you happiness (which is predictable, so I'm really not ruining anything), and this resounds throughout the entire book. However, this theme is obvious from the offset so the book needed something else alongside this to carry it forward properly. By halfway through I was still waiting for something to start and was bored with it. Ms Parks usually gives a far jucier story than this!

As mentioned, the ending is very predictable (I bet even reading this far is enough). There is a subtle twist, which lasts all of three chapters, which rescues the ending from one star to two. The book earns its third star through some good (but not excellent) scene setting and character development at the beginning. These unfortunately are the only descriptions like this we get.

For me, the best book Ms Parks has ever written is 'Tell Me Something', which I enjoyed, and 'Love Lies' pales into insignificance next to it. I'm hoping that this is a blip in the author's bestselling history, and that her next books will be better. Not the best, stick to Marian Keyes' 'This Charming Man' for the time being!

every girl's dream
I'm a big fan of Adele Parks too and i adored 'Love lies'! it does exactly what a good book should, transports you into the world of the characters and makes you believe that the unbelievable could happen to you too. We can all relate to Fern's story, with her life stuck in a rut her fantasy comes true when she is swept away to live a life of luxury by a rockstar, but she soon realises the grass isn't always greener. What's wonderful about this book is that it makes you appreciate what you've got whilst still ackowledging that we all like to daydream about what we can't have.

Love Lies - Mandy cries - from boredom!
Found it hard to get into, didn't really get going and when it did it was all to create a pretty implausible situation (even in the realms of escapism) and some truly unlikeable characters. Didn't care for Fern, hated Scottie, Adam was dull and faceless and I can't remember Fern's other friends names.
First Adele Parks I have read and will probably be the last. To be honest I have written better - check out Excess All Areas by Mandy Baggot.