Who doesn't love a bad boy? It really doesn't matter if you are young or old, the bad boy has appeal. Picture this: Piercing green eyes, dark hair, powerful body clad in well worn jeans and a black leather jacket with a motorcycle helmet tucked under his arm and a smile that promises to fulfill all your fantasies. Now, you are lying to yourself if that mental image doesn't turn you on!

Posey is just one of those loveable characters that you just want to squeeze and you get a little teary-eyed jus More...

Higgin’s books are often considered more chicklit than romance, with the lack of hero point-of-view cited as the reason they may seem insufficiently romantic. In Until There Was You, she departs from her usual first person style to give us both points of view -- yet ironically, though it’s a good read in many ways, it’s the least convincing romance by her I’ve ever read. Possibly one of the least convincing romances I’ve ever read.

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2 1/2 to 3 stars

Meh. I didn't really care for this book, though the writing was superb. I was somewhat disappointed with the heroine. I liked her a lot, don't get me wrong, but her unwillingness to stand up for herself started to grate on my nerves. I kept waiting for her to stop being everyones doormat, unfortunately that never happened. Plus, I wasn't able to fully accept or believe in the supposed feelings the hero had for the heroine. I felt his feelings for her never compared to his feeling More...

I'm having some conflicted feelings about this book so I'll start with what I liked about it first. As always, this book was funny and had a certain quirky charm to it. Posey, the main character, is a little odd and so is her whole family. I loved the scenes that take place at her family's restaurant, as they reminded me slightly of my family's obsession with eating. I only wish I had Posey's issue of not gaining weight! Gretchen was also entertaining and I was constantly wishing to smack her up More...

Imagine yourself as a heroine.

What kind of hero would you wish for?

How about one that overlooked you and your love as a kid, ruined your social life in a stupid attempt to help you in a 4 minute time span that he could divulge to you and then forget you even lived for the next 15 years?
How about one that leaves you at every turn because he hides behind parenting his child?
How about one that is so hooked up on his dead wife that this child is almost a bizarre extension of what he had with her?
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The next book is called Until There Was You, and it’s what I think of as Return of the Bad Boy. Back in high school, Liam Murphy was worshipped from afar by scrawny Posey Osterhagen, who could barely get him to acknowledge her. Somehow, he still managed to break her heart. Now, quite a few years later, Liam’s back, a widower with a teenage daughter, and Posey finds he still has quite the effect on her. She has to learn if Liam’s any different from the high More...

Ugghhh...not sure I am going to continue with this one. It's starts off like a bad version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, where the heroine is working at her parents' restaurant when a guy that used to live in their town (What IS their town? I keep reading "New England" but nobody ever says a town name!) comes back to live there with his teenage daughter. The uncomfortable banter about his dead wife is cringe-worthy. The dialogue is not really all that believable - I keep seeing words like "Crikey More...

3.5*

While a few thing didn't work for me, like Posey's choice of "swear" words (Beiber and Elvis Presley) and how often we get to read Posey's mental and physical reaction to Liam for the first half of the book (we get it, she lusts for Liam), there were several things I really liked about the book. For one, it's the first book Higgins has published that's written in 3rd person. I much prefer 3rd person POV. Her other books are all first person POV, and several are written in first person presen More...

This ARC was provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Publish date: October 25th, 2011
Fiction – Adult: Romance: Contemporary
Harlequin (HQNBooks)

Posey Osterhagen lives a happy life. She’s close to family and friends, has an old church all to herself, and owns a company. Maybe some people don’t understand the allure, but she loves architectural salvaging. All is just fine - peachy in fact - if it weren’t for…
Having Bellsford’s bad boy Liam Murphy back in town is a bit of a shock. He More...

I'm going to write a review just because I want to escape the horridness that is Accounting! Anyway, Until There Was You is Kristan Higgan's latest contemporary romance novel. This book... was quite different yet the entire feel and setting is totally the same. I didn't love it as much as her previous book, My One and Only, but it was really sweet and the hero is to die for! I mean who can resist a bad boy turn good named Liam Murphy? Our heroine, Posey Osterhagen, is probably one of the dorkies More...

I enjoyed this one as I do most all of Kristan Higgins' books and I am SO happy to see she has finally written a book where we get the guys POV as well. I loved Liam, he was adorable, and I absolutely adored Posey! Especially her smart mouth. I'd like to think that she spoke to Liam the same way I would if I were in her shoes. But, I don't know if it was because he was a widow, or if it was because I never felt like he had to work very hard to win Posey when she clearly deserved it after pining More...

This was my first Kristan Higgins book after meeting her at CTRWA's conference last year (2012).

Posey is feeling marginalized by the society of the small town around her yet does not leave her friends and family for a different life. Like Liam Murphy did. Liam is the bad boy who broke her heart with mean spirited actions - at least that's what Posey believes.

The humor in the novel eases us into Posey's delicate life. Perception on your teenage years and your place with your family can be delicat More...

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Kristan Higgins'in yayınlanan ilk kitabı Geç Gelen Mutluluk, yazarı favorilerim arasına taşımaya yetmişti. Güzel bir öyküyü, hafif dram ve bol romans ile anlatan yazarın uzun zamandır kitabı çıkmıyordu. Bu kitabın çıkacağı haberini aldığım anda tahmin edersiniz ki deliye döndüm diyebilirim. Vee alabildiğim en yakın zaman içinde elime geçirdim, bu dün oluyor, ve bu sabah da bitmiş bulunuyor, gerisini siz anlayın.

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This novel had so much potential, but the characters and plot seemed to slip away from a great novelist, Kristan Higgins. The heroine, Posey Osterhagen, is a decent person with poor self-esteem, who never really seems to outgrow this flaw. The hero, Liam Murphy, a misunderstood man every single woman in the novel wants to have sex with, takes parenting to the extreme and is filled with self-esteem issues of his own.

There was some wonderful writing in this novel, particularly a lengthy chapter a More...

Until There Was You by Kristan Higgins
Liam is back in town with his teen daughter. He now owns and runs a motorcycle shop and he's a widow. Posey remembers when Emma set her up for a prom. There are a lot of references to their teen years.
Such funny party: when his daughter introduces him to a guy and what transpires then had me laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes. Liam was the bad boy in town and full of himself. He also worked at the family restaurant where he finally notices her.
She had b More...

This was a cute story. The story is told in present time with recounts of the past. There's nothing particular spectacular about the plot, but it was engaging. I didn't want to put the book down. My only issues with the book are: 1.) the ending felt abrupt. The last couple of chapters seemed rushed, as though the author was just trying to wrap things up as fast as possible and give everyone a "happily ever after" ending; 2.) Some of the information presented in the story comes way after the fact More...

Oh my was this such a good book! I loved it! She had me crying and laughing out loud and had the biggest grin at the end. I mean I wanted it to never end. KH did a fantastic job developing Liam and Cordelia as characters that were so easy for me to love, hate at times(the young Liam), cheer for and cry for during those tough times. KH loves to make her heroines a little quirky and that is fine with me. That makes them more believable and easier to relate to for me. When Cordelia has the worst po More...

I laughed, cried and got angry reading "Until There Was You". So I guess this book covered all the bases. Love Kristen Higgins. What I would change? Her last book I read also had a main romantic interest that couldn't let go of a past love. Really? I want someone who can love me and not hold on to the past. She has loved him forever and it seemed that she was pleased that he "settled " for her because his only love died. Then to wait for his kids permission as well as his ex inlaws???. No offenc More...

This was not on my reading list - just came across this book when a friend mention the author. For my first Kristan Higgins read - this particular book had me in tears half-way!!!

I'm a sucker for bad boys who're in need of redemption. Liam was the epitome of the perfect bad boy then - just got out of juvie, owned a motorcycle and was sleeping around. But then he fell in love and he just lost it. The only problem is that, he didn't fell in love with Posey back then, he fell in love with another g More...

Let's get this out of the way at the start: I love Kristan Higgins' books. Just love 'em. There is something about the way she writes that wraps around me like a soft, fuzzy blanket. I can't get enough of them!

Until There Was You is the third book of hers that I've read, and it probably ranks #2 on the list (behind My One and Only and in front of Fools Rush In). Set in New England, where all three of them have been, Until There Was You is a love story and nothing more. And it made me cry. The ot More...

Until there was You Kristan Higgins – I liked this one! Chic lit w/ some romance . . . wait. . . more like homeboy lit! Why you ask? Because I felt like Liam really evolved through the story. Sure he loved his wife when they were together, but even he admits that she left the r/s LONG before she died. She had been pulling away from him gradually over the years before she was diagnosed. He was there for her in the end. Why wouldn’t he be? He took care of that stray cat as well. It’s his character More...

I want to say I loved it, I certainly enjoyed it I read the book in one day after all. It did make me laugh and it made me cry at some points and overall it was a fun light read. Something for the beach. I didn't find that two narrators confusing and there were not that many flashbacks as some reviewers have stated. It was just enough. It was classic chic lit, where the girl's heart was crushed by a highschool crush (crushed get it? ha ha) and grows up and they some how reconnect. I found the en More...

I'm not a big fan of contemporary romances aside from Lisa Kleypas. I picked up this book because it was recommended by Eloisa James.

This is the third Kristin Higgins book that I've attempted and the only one I read completely. I won't be reading any more of her books. Why? I just don't like her heroines. I like heroines that aren't perfect. Kristin Higgins heroines are doormats and if she were writing in another genre, such as urban fantasy or horror, her heroines would fall into the category o More...

I was very disappointed by the time i finished it.Did not like the way Liam behaved with Cordelia through the book,did not feel any love blossoming from Liam's side,i felt he was still hung on with his guilt and past and was very much in love with Emma,as a father his decision to keep his daughter first was right but why did he started this affair with Cordelia when he knew how deep she felt for him.

Cordelia i wanted to like her but the way she always let everyone walk over her and the begging n More...

This book totally worked for me. Hubby was away, so I lounged on the couch and powered through this book feeling very decadent and self indulgent. My absolute favourite Kiggins is One Of the Guys. I've re-read it several times, and I think this one is on the same level for me. The heroine is terrific - feisty and funny and vulnerable. The hero is troubled and human. I love watching him trot out his usual "sexy bad boy" moves with Posey and them bouncing off the brick wall of her determination to More...

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It's taken me forever to get around to reviewing this one, and I feel bad about that, because I don't want that lag time to be a reflection of my reaction to it. At all. This is actually the second Kristan Higgins book I read immediately after inhaling All I Ever Wanted a few months back. It's also her newest publication, and I was interested to see if I liked her new stuff as well. You know how sometimes you really connect with an author's work from a certain "period," More...

Really great book. Without going too far into the plot (because if you want to read about that, you can read the synopsis or some of the other reviews) I totally fell in love with Posey as a character, and Nick...? Well how can you not fall for someone as deliciously flawed but still adorable as Nick? I did have some complaints, in that I wished Posey hadn't been so much of a doormat when it came to her obnoxious cousin (seriously? She treats you like crap your entire life then invites herself o More...

I really did like this one. After being disappointed by Higgins' last book, My One and Only, I had some reservations going into this one. Especially when, in the very first scene, the heroine finds herself in an unflattering situation with the hero. No real big deal there (mouth full of food, awkward but not embarrassing), but I find it hard to identify with heroines who are portrayed as clumsy or awkward. Maybe it pushes my buttons and brings up bad memories of my own awkward stage(s), but I ju More...

This was such a good book. I laughed i cried it had it all. Liam Declan Murphy. The name sounds sexy doesn't it. The man is too. Liam had a terrible childhood but a good heart he kept hidden for the most part. Posey got to see glimpses of it when they were young and still in high school. She has a huge crush on Liam but Liam fell for another girl and fell hard. He broke Posey's heart with some nasty comments about her when she thought that they were at least friends. Fast forward years later and More...