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"Higgins [offers] strong storytelling and a refreshing, sarcastic wit...thoroughly entertaining."-People Magazine
"Well-placed flashbacks; snarky, snappy dialogue; and conflict both tender and traumatic will shove you into love with a perfectly irresistible array of imperfect characters. You'll adore every bit of this story...Higgins' latest is sexy, screwy, funny and fulfilling - a simply radiant read."-USA TODAY on The Best Man
"The result is a deliriously funny story...The Best Man is Kristan Higgin's best book -- and that's saying a lot."-Eloisa James
"A funny, poignant romance."
-Publishers Weekly starred review, on My One and Only
"Romance fans and lovers of women's fiction will devour this witty and tender novel. Highly recommended." -Library Journal starred review on Somebody to Love
"Both gut-wrenchingly emotional and hysterically funny at the same time...Kristan Higgins writes the books you don't want to end."-#1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr
"Higgins specializes in the kind of prose that makes you laugh out loud...hilarious on the surface, but with a bittersweet subtext."-National Public Radio
"Higgins has a special talent for creating characters readers love."-Romantic Times, 4½ stars on All I Ever Wanted
"A heartwarming, multi-generational tale of lost love, broken hearts and second chances."
-BookPage on The Next Best Thing
"Well-placed flashbacks; snarky, snappy dialogue; and conflict both tender and traumatic will shove you into love with a perfectly irresistible array of imperfect characters. You'll adore every bit of this story...Higgins' latest is sexy, screwy, funny and fulfilling - a simply radiant read."-USA TODAY on The Best Man
"The result is a deliriously funny story...The Best Man is Kristan Higgin's best book -- and that's saying a lot."-Eloisa James
"A funny, poignant romance."
-Publishers Weekly starred review, on My One and Only
"Romance fans and lovers of women's fiction will devour this witty and tender novel. Highly recommended." -Library Journal starred review on Somebody to Love
"Both gut-wrenchingly emotional and hysterically funny at the same time...Kristan Higgins writes the books you don't want to end."-#1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr
"Higgins specializes in the kind of prose that makes you laugh out loud...hilarious on the surface, but with a bittersweet subtext."-National Public Radio
"Higgins has a special talent for creating characters readers love."-Romantic Times, 4½ stars on All I Ever Wanted
"A heartwarming, multi-generational tale of lost love, broken hearts and second chances."
-BookPage on The Next Best Thing
About the Author
Kristan Higgins is a New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author and two-time winner of the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. Her books have been praised for their "genius level EQ, whippet-fast, funny dialogue and sweet plots with a deliciously tart edge" (USA TODAY). She lives in Connecticut with her heroic firefighter husband and two extremely advanced children, one shy little mutt and an occasionally affectionate cat.
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Kristan divides her time between home in Connecticut and summers on Cape Cod. She is the mother of two lovely kids, the wife of a brave firefighter, and a devoted Ben & Jerry's fan. Previously a copywriter, Kristan began writing fiction when her children graced her life with simultaneous naps...so much more satisfying than folding laundry. She holds a BA in English, which enables her to identify dangling participles and quote many great novels. She loves to connect with readers on her website www.kristanhiggins.com and her Facebook page www.facebook.com/KristanHigginsBooks
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
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Dianne E. Socci-Tetro
TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on April 4, 2014
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Waiting on You by Kristen Higgins
This is a difficult review for me to write. I have always loved Kristen Higgins and everything (pretty much) that she has ever written - until this book. I realize that my opinion is going to be a very unpopular one at this point, but I feel that it needs to be out out there!
Cons:
* I had a very difficult time liking Colleen (and almost all of the main characters) - anyone this full of herself, whether or not is was a self-defense mechanism on the part of the character or something other people think is `just having a healthy idea of who you are' was repugnant to me. She was constantly harping on how beautiful she knew she was, what a great figure she has, how smart she is, how beloved she was and on and on. I have never `met' a character so full of herself that wasn't 13-18 years old. This is a romance novel, NOT woman's fiction or a young adult/teen novel. I expected Colleen's head to explode from being so big.
* The fact that Lucas could just let her walk out of his life without ever having said he loved her, even just once was unbelievable. To give it all up to marry someone he didn't love because of duty and maybe they will learn to love each other -didn't work for me in this book.
* Colleen is made to look like a near prostitute and she never once feels the need to let her beloved "Spaniard" know the truth? I needed to suspend my disbelief to such an extent here that I could barely make it through the rest of the book.
* Lucas' cousin Bryce - well I thought that right from the get-go, he might have had a minor mental disability. However, I was wrong. Had I had to read on more "Dude!" exclamation, I might have just ... well I would have done something evil! I did love Paulie though.Read more ›
This is a difficult review for me to write. I have always loved Kristen Higgins and everything (pretty much) that she has ever written - until this book. I realize that my opinion is going to be a very unpopular one at this point, but I feel that it needs to be out out there!
Cons:
* I had a very difficult time liking Colleen (and almost all of the main characters) - anyone this full of herself, whether or not is was a self-defense mechanism on the part of the character or something other people think is `just having a healthy idea of who you are' was repugnant to me. She was constantly harping on how beautiful she knew she was, what a great figure she has, how smart she is, how beloved she was and on and on. I have never `met' a character so full of herself that wasn't 13-18 years old. This is a romance novel, NOT woman's fiction or a young adult/teen novel. I expected Colleen's head to explode from being so big.
* The fact that Lucas could just let her walk out of his life without ever having said he loved her, even just once was unbelievable. To give it all up to marry someone he didn't love because of duty and maybe they will learn to love each other -didn't work for me in this book.
* Colleen is made to look like a near prostitute and she never once feels the need to let her beloved "Spaniard" know the truth? I needed to suspend my disbelief to such an extent here that I could barely make it through the rest of the book.
* Lucas' cousin Bryce - well I thought that right from the get-go, he might have had a minor mental disability. However, I was wrong. Had I had to read on more "Dude!" exclamation, I might have just ... well I would have done something evil! I did love Paulie though.Read more ›
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41 of 51 people found the following review helpful
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J. Daniele
on March 28, 2014
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I absolutely love Kristan Higgins' romance novels -- rate her as one of my favorite authors. However, I was disappointed in more instances with Waiting On You than loved it. As always, Kristan had me laughing hysterically many times, cheering at other times and crying at others. I received the book on March 26th and read it that day.
Colleen O'Rourke and Lucas Campbell were each's first loves and had been madly in love for four years; but no real effort was made on either of their parts to try to rectify their split-up. I absolutely love romance novels -- I have a stressful job and look forward to the unreality of happy endings despite all odds. However, this book stretched the limits of reality:
1. Lucas spends one night with a woman and only marries her because she is pregnant. Despite the fact that she loses the baby shortly thereafter, Lucas decides to remain with his wife out of loyalty rather than spend his life with the person he has supposedly loved for the past four years, having told Colleen he was not ready to be married only months before.
2. Despite the fact that during his marriage Lucas supposedly continues to love Colleen while loving his wife, in the four years after his divorce he never contacts Colleen to see if they possibly have a future together.
3. Although Lucas never once in four years told Colleen he loved her although she knew he did, he had no problem telling his wife that he loved her.
4. Lastly and the hardest thing for me to accept was although the book description stated that Colleen had a "fling here and there", the last 50 pages of the book insinuated that Colleen was nothing but a player.Read more ›
Colleen O'Rourke and Lucas Campbell were each's first loves and had been madly in love for four years; but no real effort was made on either of their parts to try to rectify their split-up. I absolutely love romance novels -- I have a stressful job and look forward to the unreality of happy endings despite all odds. However, this book stretched the limits of reality:
1. Lucas spends one night with a woman and only marries her because she is pregnant. Despite the fact that she loses the baby shortly thereafter, Lucas decides to remain with his wife out of loyalty rather than spend his life with the person he has supposedly loved for the past four years, having told Colleen he was not ready to be married only months before.
2. Despite the fact that during his marriage Lucas supposedly continues to love Colleen while loving his wife, in the four years after his divorce he never contacts Colleen to see if they possibly have a future together.
3. Although Lucas never once in four years told Colleen he loved her although she knew he did, he had no problem telling his wife that he loved her.
4. Lastly and the hardest thing for me to accept was although the book description stated that Colleen had a "fling here and there", the last 50 pages of the book insinuated that Colleen was nothing but a player.Read more ›
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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TOP 500 REVIEWER on March 27, 2014
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Don’t you love it when release day comes and you are all a flitter to read the latest and greatest in your favorite series? That is how I felt when I got a copy of Waiting on You by Kristan Higgins. This is her third story in the Blue Heron series, about a small town in New York and the lives of a family that own a vineyard and their friends. This is a story about love and loss and new loves all rolled into one emotional, funny, teary and touching romance you’ll ever read. This is Colleen O’Rourke’s story with her first love Lucas Campbell, who’s come back to town to take care of his uncle and his dying wishes.
Colleen is the heart of the town when it comes to dolling out advice and matchmaking individuals with their own happy ever after. She’s never let herself get close to a real relationship after Lucas broke her heart 10 years earlier and left her having flings here and there. I liked Colleen and she was such a well-developed character. She has insight about people and has had several success stories of marriages and has had a few babies named in her honor. She means well and puts others first and was a woman after my own heart. She had witty dialogue and had some extremely funny situations happening to her that had me laughing out loud and giggling to myself long after I put my book down. She knew that if she let Lucas back into her life that it might be setting herself up for heartbreak again but she knew that it was inevitable and let him back into her life and heart. You see her trying her best to rationalize it to herself and you feel how torn she is and ache for her.
Ms. Higgins weaves the story back and forth between present and past encounters of high school days and the beginning of Colleen and Lucas’ relationship.Read more ›
Colleen is the heart of the town when it comes to dolling out advice and matchmaking individuals with their own happy ever after. She’s never let herself get close to a real relationship after Lucas broke her heart 10 years earlier and left her having flings here and there. I liked Colleen and she was such a well-developed character. She has insight about people and has had several success stories of marriages and has had a few babies named in her honor. She means well and puts others first and was a woman after my own heart. She had witty dialogue and had some extremely funny situations happening to her that had me laughing out loud and giggling to myself long after I put my book down. She knew that if she let Lucas back into her life that it might be setting herself up for heartbreak again but she knew that it was inevitable and let him back into her life and heart. You see her trying her best to rationalize it to herself and you feel how torn she is and ache for her.
Ms. Higgins weaves the story back and forth between present and past encounters of high school days and the beginning of Colleen and Lucas’ relationship.Read more ›
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