Books by Kristan Higgins
”Make ‘em laugh, Make ‘em laugh, don’t you know everyone wants to laugh?” Donald O’Connor immortalized those words in the popular movie Singin’ in the Rain. While they are meant to be comical they contain more than a kernel of truth. Most people do love to laugh, I know I certainly do. ...
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As much as I've enjoyed Kristan Higgins' novels, I've always been somewhat disappointed by her heroes, finding them too insecure, or willfully obtuse, or remote - until now. The hero of The Best Man is the best man so far, making this latest novel her most enjoyable effort yet.
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Sometimes while reading a flawed review book, I take copious notes of the problems I encounter. Other times, I’m so captured by the story that despite its flaws, I just read. The latter happened with The Best Man. Despite problems with plot and characters, I enjoyed this story of a couple from opp ...
In this sequel, Higgins adds characters to the Maine community that built her fan base. Like Maggie and Malone in Catch of the Day, and Lucy and Ethan in The Next Best Thing, trust fund baby and children’s author Parker Welles and her father’s right hand man James Cahill, must hike a rough hill ...
Ms. Higgins states in the foreword that this book is a first for her, exploring the hero’s point of view. I have to say that being in the mind of two semi-neurotic characters definitely had an impact on my enjoyment. In Until There Was You, Ms. Higgins also continues her custom of making up exclam ...
My One and Only is my first Kristan Higgins book. I’ve been meaning to try her forever, but her books are popular and the AAR staff likes to snap them up. I definitely enjoyed my first foray, and plan to try other books by Higgins. But while I found the book very funny (at one point I was reading ...
It may sound trite, but when I read All I Ever Wanted, I laughed. I cried. I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
Callie Grey just turned thirty, is living with her grandfather, and is in love with her boss-slash-ex…who is now seeing another woman in the office. However, despite the Love of Her Life’s ...
It’s a good sign the rest of the book will be hopping when you get a big bombshell you didn’t expect in chapter one and that’s what happened when I began Kristan Higgins’ The Next Best Thing. It left me speechless at first and then made me sputter (in a good way) quite a bit. Certainly a pro ...
Though I had actually read, and greatly enjoyed, Kristan Higgins before, it was my sister who handed me Catch of the Day. “I think you’ll really like this,” she said. “It’s kind of a romance between a woman and her dog.” While I’m not sure I’d entirely agree with that assessment, I l ...
Shortly after Kristan Higgins debuted as a writer, I found her first novel at a book sale at my local library. The cover was cute, the description was cute, and - best part - it was only fifty cents. I felt like I found gold, though, when I read it. Since then I’ve felt a type of responsibility to ...