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Wow, I was floored by how much I loved this book! Honestly, I bought it a while ago and kept putting off reading it. I mean it's 555 pages. That is not a quick read. But, this book kept me completely hanging on and desperate to see how it would all turn out. While the romance, or non-romance of the two main characters, Neve and Max, is obviously central to the overall story, what really floored me was the Neve's journey. She was obese at 350+ pounds and has spent the last 3 years trying to lose weight. Everything she has done to get to a size 10 (size 6 in US) will be worth it because then she'll be happy, right? But that's the problem. So often, we believe our happiness will be tied to something - achieving some goal, getting someone to love us, having money - but Sarra Manning writes a story to show us that is not really true. What is most important is how we have to learn to love ourselves, and how doing that will be the only way we can achieve happiness with others. And that's what happens to Neve. She has been overweight for so long, that all she can see are her imperfections. She can never be happy with herself because she can't see herself for who she really is. I loved this story, because as a woman, I was able to recognize just how hard we women are on ourselves. It makes me rethink how I think and look at myself.

Overall, this book was thoroughly entertaining. It was funny, sad, sweet and it completely captured my heart. But, I definitely cannot finish this review without commenting more on Max. He is now one of my top book boyfriends. He is absolutely charming, sexy, sweet, loving, funny, and the list goes on and on. He alone, is worth reading the book! Please read this. You won't regret it!


Tags : You Don't Have to Say You Love Me [Sarra Manning] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Sweet, bookish Neve Slater always plays by the rules. And the number one rule is that good-natured fat girls like her don't get guys like gorgeous,Sarra Manning,You Don't Have to Say You Love Me,Transworld Publishers,0552165409,Literature & Fiction

You Don't Have to Say You Love Me Sarra Manning 9780552165402 Books Reviews

I simply adored this book. You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me took me by surprise and it turned out to be a real GEM of a book! ❤ It was witty and so much fun to read. It is that type of book that will leave you with lots of warm fuzzy feelings.

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Neve has so much going for her. She is smart, funny, and beautiful. She is a happier person now but she wasn’t always happy. She is making changes in her life and becoming the person she has always wanted to be.

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Max puzzled me a bit. He is a player. A guy who doesn’t do relationships, sleeps around and is a bit arrogant. Not much to love right. But there was so much more to him. And that “so much more” is what will draw you in and without doubt you will fall in love with him.

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Things in Neve’s life are changing. See, Neve has always been overweight and has never experienced a real relationship with a man. But after losing over half her body weight, she is ready. She loves someone, or maybe it is the idea of this person that she is in love with. It is her William.

As things would have it, William is in the states working but he plans to return to England soon and Neve needs to be ready for when they reunite.

Because she has no clue what it is like to be in a relationship with a man, she comes up with this plan, sort of a test drive of sorts to get ready for her relationship with William. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea. Her sister Celia has doubts but she loves Neve and will go along with whatever she decides.

Have you ever heard of a pancake relationship? No? Neither have I. Part of the plan made sense and hey why not give it a try. What could go wrong getting involved with a handsome and sexy man with no strings attached? But whenever the heart is involved, does anything ever go as planned?

This sexy man ends up being Max. Neve and Max are different in so many ways but when rules are established and boundaries are set, he agrees to the pancake relationship figuring there really isn’t much that could go wrong.

I loved watching Max and Neve get to know each other. As they spend more time together sharing day to day things, inner secrets and intimate moments, the boundaries begin to blur. Both of them are experiencing feelings of a real relationship but they just keep tucking those feelings aside. It wasn’t supposed to be a real relationship it was only supposed to be pretend. So what will come of these two?

You Don’t Have to Say You Love me was so much more than just a love story. It was about friendships, acceptance, perceptions of oneself and others and it is about the unexpected. It is about learning to let go of your inhibitions and just be yourself.

And last but certainly not least it was a sexy read too! Some of the things Max said or did to and for Neve on a sexual level had me completely swooning over him. When Max finally “stripped” Neve of her intimacy fears, my god they were insatiable!! Neve as well gave a special piece of herself to Max. He was finding his way too and the moments when she would just hold him or kiss the top of his head just melted my heart.

Oh geez,I almost forgot about Keith. He is Max’s sweet dog. ❤ Your going to love him too. )

I definitely highly recommend this one! I hope you decide to give it a go (if you haven’t already)!! I’ll leave you with one of my favorite quotes…

“Neve thought that her appetite was the most robust thing about her, and she didn’t kiss Max so much as she devoured him. Graceless, messy kisses without any thought or reason, but simply because she hungered for him. Kissed him with everything she had and everything she was, and she didn’t know why she could kiss Max and have him kiss her with the same fierceness but still be greedy for the next kiss and the one after that and the one after that and the one…”
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sarra Manning took me by surprise. I didn't just love it, I LOVED it. It isn't just gonna make my 2011 favorites shelf - it'll make the favorites shelf, period.

There are so many wonderful things about the book that I'm not even sure where to start. Basically, the book takes a piece of Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie (another favorite of mine), another of Bridget Jones (especially since the book is set in London)...and then a little something all its own and made a book that I couldn't put down. I read this 550 page chunkster in one sitting, y'all!

In her recent past, Neve was scary overweight. Like 350+ pounds scary. She has lost a lot of weight and, at the start of the book, is around a size 16. However - it is proving even more difficult for her to see herself differently than it was to lose all those pounds. She still looks in the mirror and sees only saggy/bulgey/gross.

Ever since she was a college gal, her heart has belonged to a guy named William, who is currently in the USA on a 3 year teaching contract. Since she doesn't have any dating/sexytimes experience, she decides she needs a fake boyfriend to take on a trial run so she'll be ready for William when he comes home. (Or as she calls it, the first pancake that everyone throws out.) Gorgeous, seemingly-out-of-her-league Max, who works with her sister, ends up becoming the guy through a comedy of errors (really really cringe-worthy and embarrassing errors). Before long, it was hard to see Max as a fake anything (hard for Neve AND hard for me). He is a semi-apologetic man whore, but is otherwise a decent human being.

So, both Max and Neve are very layered and complex characters. Sarra Manning knocked the characterization out of the park; the side characters are also well-developed. This is definitely gonna be one of those books I constantly end up rereading because I'll want to `visit' the characters.

The plot is also constantly entertaining - Neve and Max together is magic and fireworks. Part of the magic comes from the fact that things aren't all rosy they constantly butt heads and have to overcome terribly awkward situations. I promise you - promise you - that you won't be able to get enough of them.

The book hasn't been published in the USA, but I was able to get it for next to nothing used on . Definitely well worth it. I can't recommend this book highly enough - I loved absolutely everything about it and plan on reading Sarra's other adult novel very soon!
Wow, I was floored by how much I loved this book! Honestly, I bought it a while ago and kept putting off reading it. I mean it's 555 pages. That is not a quick read. But, this book kept me completely hanging on and desperate to see how it would all turn out. While the romance, or non-romance of the two main characters, Neve and Max, is obviously central to the overall story, what really floored me was the Neve's journey. She was obese at 350+ pounds and has spent the last 3 years trying to lose weight. Everything she has done to get to a size 10 (size 6 in US) will be worth it because then she'll be happy, right? But that's the problem. So often, we believe our happiness will be tied to something - achieving some goal, getting someone to love us, having money - but Sarra Manning writes a story to show us that is not really true. What is most important is how we have to learn to love ourselves, and how doing that will be the only way we can achieve happiness with others. And that's what happens to Neve. She has been overweight for so long, that all she can see are her imperfections. She can never be happy with herself because she can't see herself for who she really is. I loved this story, because as a woman, I was able to recognize just how hard we women are on ourselves. It makes me rethink how I think and look at myself.

Overall, this book was thoroughly entertaining. It was funny, sad, sweet and it completely captured my heart. But, I definitely cannot finish this review without commenting more on Max. He is now one of my top book boyfriends. He is absolutely charming, sexy, sweet, loving, funny, and the list goes on and on. He alone, is worth reading the book! Please read this. You won't regret it!