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Somebody to Love

by Kristan Higgins (Goodreads Author)

4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 · rating details · 4,267 ratings · 484 reviews

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kristan Higgins is back with a hilarious and heartwarming new story about a rich girl who discovers that a little hard work may be just the thing she needs...

After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon...more

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Published April 24th 2012 by HQN Books

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Mar 21, 2013 Emma rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: all-time-favorites, read-in-2013

Fabulous read. What a fantastic surprise to start with. This book is actually a follow-up of 2 other books : Catch of the Day and The Next Best Thing. Series are my favorite thing because I get to revisit some characters I've come to love. While this book is not part of a series, it's definitely a sequel, of sort.
Somebody To Love was beautiful and funny. I loughed out loud, really, and I cried too (happy tears during the epilogue). The chemistry between Parker and James is outstanding and while...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Tina rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: ebooks, netgalley, arc, 2012, chick-lit, romance

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When I spotted Somebody to Love in Netgalley, I immediately requested it, having enjoyed Until There Was You last year. I wasn't really planning to read this soon, but then I started and got to know Parker (and the Holy Rollers!) and I just couldn't stop. Somebody to Love introduces Parker Harrington Welles, a children's book writer who relies on the trust fund she had and building her world around her one and only son. She is essentially rich, but she didn't really...more

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Aug 18, 2012 Searock rated it 3 of 5 stars

(meh)
Bought the paperback to read at work.
It was enjoyable enough to keep reading to the end, but never became a special snowflake.
It had all the right pieces. It all fit together. It was well written.
But for some reason, I felt as though I could see the author sitting at the keyboard writing it the whole time I was reading.

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Mar 21, 2012 Mary rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Mary by: Rie_dominique

Shelves: my-fav, e-book, romance, chicklit

It's a sweet cliche love story. But I love it so much.

I think it's the 2nd Higgins book written from 2 POVs, both the hero and the heroin. But since Parker's POV toward James tended to be negative, I think James POV was necessary here. And it worked, he's so adorable, you'll love his voice.

Parker situation was a bit complicated. She's a single mother of 5 yrs old boy, and still well connected to the father, Ethan Mirabelli, who was crazy in love and recently married to Parker's bestfriend, Lucy....more It's a sweet cliche love story. But I love it so much.

I think it's the 2nd Higgins book written from 2 POVs, both the hero and the heroin. But since Parker's POV toward James tended to be negative, I think James POV was necessary here. And it worked, he's so adorable, you'll love his voice.

Parker situation was a bit complicated. She's a single mother of 5 yrs old boy, and still well connected to the father, Ethan Mirabelli, who was crazy in love and recently married to Parker's bestfriend, Lucy. Sound familiar? Ethan and Lucy's story was beautifully written in The Next Best Thing. From the previous book we were introduced to Parker Welles, a gorgeous rich woman once had dated Ethan and together they raised Nicky, a beautiful boy of theirs. Both had never married coz Parker knew that Ethan's heart was always for Lucy.

Being the only daughter of a millionaire family she never worried about money. All her works, a very succesful children book called the Holy Rollers, was donated to a charity to save children.
Unfortunatelly, her father goes bankrupt and all her trust fund trusted to her father to be managed was all gone. Now she has no luxury house, no grand money, and no new book inspirations, she has to accept whatever left for her, which is an ugly ruined small house in Maine. Despite a very beautiful ocean view, it need a lot of work. And being no other resource she had to accept James' help to fix the house.

James was her father's attorney she always hated. Her relationship with her father was always cold, so her father's minions always get the same reaction from her. Forced to live together for 3 weeks made her see the real personality of James Cahill.

The setting of the book bring us back to the story of Maggie and Malone from Catch of the Day where we would read further about their sweet relationship.

I love both main characters, Parker and James. Parker is so great, you'll love her from the beginning. Gone down the hill didn't make her complain much. Instead of whining on her losses, she did what she had to do and intended to keep move on. She's willing to learn new things, happy to meet new people and made friends, worked hard to earn a few, even fall in love with the new place she lived far from home.
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Aug 17, 2012 Terra rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites, contemporary-romance, audible

Audiobook this time around (3 stars narration, 5 stars story)...I don't enjoy Justine Eyre nearly as much as I'd like to. I just can't get used to her cadence and inflections during her non-dialogue parts and her New England accent definitely needs work. I still LOVE this story, though. It is KH, after all. :)

It's been a long time since I've sat down, in the middle of the day, and just read. I didn't want to put this book down. I absolutely adore Kristan Higgins! She. Just. Gets. It. She gives...more

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Mar 25, 2012 ✿ℎazℯℓ✿ rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorite-contemporary-romance

I fell in love all over again

This novel not only revolved around love. It also revolved around friendship, parenthood, forgiveness and second chances.

Parker may not be the perfect writer but she definitely tries hard to be a perfect mother. Her character has been through many patches in life. (view spoiler)...more

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Apr 28, 2012 Jenice rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit

"The course of true love never did run smooth". Okay, so Kristin Higgins isn't Shakespeare, but if you are looking for a fun, sweet, g-rated romance (difficult to find in the romance genre, trust me on this) she is your girl. You will fall in love with her hero's and heroine's while watching them fall in love. Their friends are people you want to have as friends. Their families are a bit kooky, who doesn't have a few kooky family members (maybe you are the kooky family member)? And you always ge...more

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May 01, 2013 Sheree rated it 5 of 5 stars

Recommended to Sheree by: Karen

Shelves: romance, own, 2013-100-plus-challenge, read-in-2013, reviews

Regular everyday people deserve HEA's too and no one does it better than Kristan Higgins. I'd be seriously missing out if my friend Karen wasn't a Kristan Higgins ~~nut~~ fan. Karen and I shared a special time at the Australian Romance Readers Convention this year; laughs, tears and semi stalker-ish moments with the totally lovable Kristan. Now I admit my KH collection isn't as ~~obsessive~~ extensive as Karen's but it's growing nicely, along with my fan girl crush.

Now back to the book, it's about stepp...more

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Sep 21, 2012 Viviana Izzo rated it 4 of 5 stars

Funny, witty, and sweet!! I was either laughing or giggling from the very beginning! Our heroine, Parker, is an author and let say that like many authors, she ‘hears’ and ‘sees’ them. The interaction between them is a hoot! Also to hear what Parker actually thinks about her characters, just makes you wonder if there are other authors out there who have a similar distaste to their creations. Heheheehe

Yes, Parker comes from money, but what I loved about her was that she didn’t act or behave like a...more Funny, witty, and sweet!! I was either laughing or giggling from the very beginning! Our heroine, Parker, is an author and let say that like many authors, she ‘hears’ and ‘sees’ them. The interaction between them is a hoot! Also to hear what Parker actually thinks about her characters, just makes you wonder if there are other authors out there who have a similar distaste to their creations. Heheheehe

Yes, Parker comes from money, but what I loved about her was that she didn’t act or behave like a traditional heiress, nor did she react like one when her father loses. She held herself together and came up with a plan! Sure, she had her moment of tears, but she didn’t let them last, no pity party for her! She is definitely a great role model and the type of heroine I wish were written more often.

James is our hero, who also happens to be Parker’s father’s “Right Hand Man” and attorney. Always professional and polite, he represents Mr. Wells not only in professional circles but even in family functions, when Mr. Wells is too busy to attend himself or couldn’t be bothered to make an appearance. He is also seen as “Just like my father” in Parker’s eyes and that’s not a good thing as she doesn’t have a great, well not even good relationship with her father. Needless to say, lots of tension between Parker and James.

Ahhhh James!! Good looking, smart (he’s a lawyer), and nice. What? Waiting for the bad boy qualities to come out? Well, besides the fact that he’s dated a few ladies and is very charming, there isn’t much of a “bad boy” in him! However, he’s good with his hands!!! He’s a carpenter!! Jeez, head out of the gutter!!

I loved the bantering between James and Parker! He’s trying to help her out. She thinks he’s only doing it because her father paid him to. He’s always had a major crush on her and she only remembers how he left her high and dry at a party. He’s being sincere and she thinks he has ulterior motives. There’s also lots of miscommunication. However, all of this leads to them getting to know each other, understanding that just being straight forward is significantly better (and easier) and it does create some very funny moments!!

Loved the book and will be adding Kristan Higgins to my list of authors to catch up on!

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Feb 17, 2012 Patricia rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: source-e-arc, _adult, genre_contemporary-and-suspense, 2012, setting-present, x-pov-shared, x-pov-3rd-person, review-on-old-blog

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Dear Patricia,

you always liked Kristan Higgins. Maybe because her characters are all flawed, and different from most other protagonists. Maybe because you simply have a soft spot for an author who says she simply wrote because she thought that she thought she couldn’t do that much worse than others. I’m not sure.

With this novel I am not really sure what I liked and what I didn’t. I certainly loved the setting and the way everything ended. I...more

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May 05, 2012 Keri rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-read, reviewed, chick-lit, kristan-higgins, older-woman, romance-contemporary

This was really 3.5 stars for me and for most of the book it was a solid 3. I will try and put to epaper my thoughts about this book. This is probably going to come off more as a rant than a review. I didn't warm to Parker until the last 1/8 of the book and at points of the book I wanted to throw the book against the wall because of her. I thought she was extremely narrow- minded and cold. I fell in love with James from the first and knew that there was a lot more to him that we knew. I couldn't...more This was really 3.5 stars for me and for most of the book it was a solid 3. I will try and put to epaper my thoughts about this book. This is probably going to come off more as a rant than a review. I didn't warm to Parker until the last 1/8 of the book and at points of the book I wanted to throw the book against the wall because of her. I thought she was extremely narrow- minded and cold. I fell in love with James from the first and knew that there was a lot more to him that we knew. I couldn't get his attraction to Parker from the first. Even having discovered what the big "deal" was, I still thought that Parker was immature about it. One big thing that bugged me further was the use of Lady land...really??? You can use the word f*%k, but when referring to the female reproductive area we got Lady land...every time.

There were no love scenes, we were led in with a kiss and the next chapter we woke up and boy did we have amazing sex. I wouldn't know, I didn't get any details, you just told me they did. Referring to James to Thing One was demeaning and it got old really fast and only backed up Parker's immaturity at times. She was older than James, but she didn't act like it. Her dad was a jerk and so was his dad and brothers. One refreshing thing was that we were in James's head a bit more than normal for a KH. Once we got his backstory he was even more wonderful as a person and Parker should have got down and groveled at his feet once she got it. We did get a small grovel, but not enough IMO for what she put him through.

What I did love is that I got to read more about my Malone. We get to see him and Maggie get married. That is ok; I am going to allow this just until I can dump my old man and go claim him for myself. A man has needs...I dig it, she can be his foot warmer until I can get there. :-) Same Malone though, a man of few words...ayuh, but damn sexy about it. Diabetics beware the epilogue is super sweet and may put you into sugar shock. Not sure why we had that length on the time, but I guess to allow for what was in the epilogue we needed that. I didn't hate the book, after all I read it in one sitting in a matter of hours, it just wasn't one of my favs. That is my rant and I am sticking to it.
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Jun 15, 2013 cupcake rated it 4 of 5 stars

So I love Kristan Higgins' books. I love them so much that I push them on my students (the girls ... the boys could not care less), encouraging them to read my girl crush. Every time I read a new one, though, I find myself a little nervous. Will she disappoint? Will I still love her?

I can report that my adoration continues unabated.

Somebody to Love reunites us with Parker Welles, whom we met in The Next Best Thing. We also get to check in on Ethan and Lucy, as well as Maggie and Malone from Catc...more So I love Kristan Higgins' books. I love them so much that I push them on my students (the girls ... the boys could not care less), encouraging them to read my girl crush. Every time I read a new one, though, I find myself a little nervous. Will she disappoint? Will I still love her?

I can report that my adoration continues unabated.

Somebody to Love reunites us with Parker Welles, whom we met in The Next Best Thing. We also get to check in on Ethan and Lucy, as well as Maggie and Malone from Catch of the Day. Malone, by the way, has some things to say, which may surprise those of you who recall him from his previous outing.

A children's book author with writer's block, Parker discovers she has bigger issues at stake. Her father, reminiscent of Bernie Madoff, has been convicted for insider trading and is headed off to jail, leaving Parker virtually penniless. All of those book royalties? She donated those to charity. Daddy Welles did leave his daughter one bit of help: his attorney James Cahill, or Thing One as Parker thinks of him. James has some handyman skills, so when he shows up to help Parker rehabilitate a seaside shack she was bequeathed by a deceased aunt, Parker reluctantly accepts his help.

She also accepts his kisses. Which, really, she should, because he is totally adorable.

As happens in Higgins' books, there is no clear path to true love. Parker has trust issues. Big ones, thanks to her father. She also doesn't quite trust herself, and given that a child is involved, she is all the more reluctant to embark on a romance with James. For his part, James is a bit too enamored of Parker, but he sees through her bluster to the woman who's really there.

Parker is a bit different from Higgins' typical heroines, though. She's prickly, snobby, and not always entirely likable. Even when Lucy bumbled, you liked her. But Parker occasionally is so bitchy as to turn us off. I liked that, though. She's flawed, and she knows she's flawed. She wants to be a better person, but she doesn't know how.

It's a cute story, one that entertains and that you will enjoy. If you're a fan of Higgins' books, you need to read this.

Thanks to edelweiss for the preview.
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May 24, 2013 Lois Tucker rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit, fiction

This was recommended in some magazine lately along with new fiction and NYT top sellers, so I put it on reserve at the library and got it from another county (with a $115.00 fee on it if I lose it! I didn't).

I liked this book quite a bit. While following the conventions of the genre, all characters, including peripheral ones, were grounded in reality enough to not break the flow of the story. It was a slow burn book, taking some time to draw me in. I never felt manipulated or even particularly...more

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May 23, 2013 Stacy rated it 4 of 5 stars

I know this is pretty much just a standard romance, but I really liked it. There's nothing particularly surprising going on in the plot, it's amusing but not really laugh-out-loud funny, but it's sweet and uncomplicated. With the main characters a formerly rich single mom who's never loved and a lawyer with a guilt complex, they're a little outside the typical cliched lines, so that's nice. The surrounding characters are all colorful without being distracting. I haven't read The Next Best Thing ...more

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Apr 09, 2013 Beverly rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Jan 23, 2013 Amy A rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoy Kristan Higgins books. They are always a pick-me-up kind of book for me. Somebody to love is no different.

Parker is a single mother who learns that her father has lost all of the family money taking Parker and her son's trust funds as well. So having to start over with next to nothing she moves to a little town in Maine for the summer to rehab an old family home left to her years before. When she gets to main she finds that "home" is being generous when it comes to the place, but...more

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Jan 08, 2013 Kim Reads (Read Your Writes Book Reviews) added it

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I have wanted to read a book by Kristan Higgins for awhile now. I've read and heard that she's a fantastic author. I finally got my chance with Somebody to Love.

I must be the only person in the world to not like or love this book. I know the problem has to lay with me. When I started having a "disconnect" with the book, I looked at some of the reviews to see if it was just me. Apparently it was. For days I found myse...more Reviewed on: http://readyourwrites.blogspot.com
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I have wanted to read a book by Kristan Higgins for awhile now. I've read and heard that she's a fantastic author. I finally got my chance with Somebody to Love.

I must be the only person in the world to not like or love this book. I know the problem has to lay with me. When I started having a "disconnect" with the book, I looked at some of the reviews to see if it was just me. Apparently it was. For days I found myself struggling to get through this book. Unfortunately, I didn't even finish the book. I ended up reading only 33% of it. Yes, I know that's bad. I'm sure the book gets better. I mean come on, everyone else seems to like it.

From the part I did read, Parker is a borderline brat. She's thirty-five years old and is in the position she's in because of herself. Her father, Harry, goes to prison for insider trading. In a way to attempt to cover his tracks he uses all of his money, the money in trust for Parker, as well as the trust money of Parker's six year old son, Nicky. Harry was able to get all of Parker's and Nicky's money because she never put the accounts in her name. She even signed a document giving her father full control to do as he wished with the money. In addition to all of their money being gone, the Feds seized the house Parker was living in because it was a family home, and something that Parker hadn't personally paid for. Because of this she blames James, Harry's personal attorney for NOT telling her what her father was doing or telling her that she needed to control her own money.

I'm pretty sure James is a great guy. Heck, I know he's a great guy. He ends up following Parker to Maine, to help her get her inherited house in shape and isn't being paid to do so. He's dedicated his entire summer to helping her instead of looking for a new job for himself. I gather James is hiding some kind of secret. Maybe it really isn't a secret, but for some reason he feels he owes everything to Harry. I'm sure that's revealed at some point in the book.

I don't feel it's appropriate for me to give a rating on a review I wasn't able to get into or even finish half way so I'm not. I will say I'm hoping to attempt to read this book again and hopefully the next time I pick up this book, I will be able to read it, finish it, and enjoy it.

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Dec 19, 2012 Julia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Imagine a conversation like this between an author and her editor/publisher: "We think you are an excellent romance writer, but we would like to see you take it to the next level". And so we have this book and that's why I really enjoyed it. A romance/chick lit novel that takes it to the next level.
Basically the plot is this: Trust fund baby Parker Welles, single mom of Nicky and childrens author, finds that her Wall Street financier father lost all her money to an insider's scheme. Scrambling f...more

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Dec 14, 2012 Laura Ashlee rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, romance

I’ve been meaning to read something by Kristan Higgins for quite a while. I even have two of her books on my Vox that I haven’t read yet. I got this one from NetGalley so that put a bit of time limit on when I could read it. I’m so glad I read this because now I want to read all of her books. I wasn’t sure about it when I started, but once I got into it, I couldn’t stop reading.

I like Parker for the most part. She has some traits I’m not fond of. She’s quick to judge and her inner dialogues with...more

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Nov 05, 2012 Heather Bokon rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012

I loved this book. It was so much fun to read, and I genuinely loved Parker and James.

Parker has been rich her whole life. Filthy rich. Bill Gates rich. Her father is convicted of insider trading (I think that's what it was) and she discovers that in the course of his crimes, he depleted not only her own trust fund, but the one he set up for her son, Nicky. Now the only thing she has left is a decrepit, falling-down shack a great aunt left her, and what's in her own bank account, which isn't muc...more

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Oct 08, 2012 Barb Klein rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed the book “Sombody to Love” by Kristan Higgins. Without giving too much away, I thought that the story was wonderfully romantic. Parker Harrington Welles, a single mother, never married, and heiress to lots of money is also a children’s book author. Her parents are divorced. Her father is not a very nice man and her mother has a habit of attracting husbands. Harry, the father, and his minions irritate Parker no end. Her father’s attorney, James Cahill, alias Thing One (to Parker)...more

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Aug 22, 2012 Rebecca Graf rated it 4 of 5 stars

Sometimes life throws you a curve ball. It gets fun when it throws romance into the mix. That makes a great story which Kristan Higgins gives you in Somebody to Love.

A woman who has spent her life with all the money she could ever have from her estranged father suddenly finds herself and her son with nothing but a few bucks and a shack in Maine. Trying to salvage what she has of her life and start over, Parker finds herself alone with the man she can’t stand and who is her father’s right-hand ma...more

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Jul 20, 2012 Rhonda rated it 4 of 5 stars

Review:Somebody to Love by Kristan Higgins
4 STARS I had fun reading this novel. Its one that I thought would be a little bit different than what it was. I like the characters. They have dreams,fears,faults and love. Parker Welles lives with her little boy in a mansion all alone. She writes little childrens books that she hates. Parker donates the profits to Save the Children Fund. She does not need money and if she did she has a big trust fund and so does her son. That is till her father Harry...more Review:Somebody to Love by Kristan Higgins
4 STARS I had fun reading this novel. Its one that I thought would be a little bit different than what it was. I like the characters. They have dreams,fears,faults and love. Parker Welles lives with her little boy in a mansion all alone. She writes little childrens books that she hates. Parker donates the profits to Save the Children Fund. She does not need money and if she did she has a big trust fund and so does her son. That is till her father Harry comes down to the house and says the money is all gone. Even thier trustfunds. The goverment is taking everything except what she has bought for the house in the last 5 years. her car, thier clothes and personal items. She has around 10,000$ left and a house in Maine that she forgot she inheited from a great Aunt. Her father's personel lawyer James Cahill offers to go with her to help her but she turns him down. She calls him thing 1 and her fathers other aid thing 2. Everytime she sees her father they are both thier and have been for years. Nicky is Parker's 5 year old son. She never married his father, but has a good relationship with him and his wife Lucy. Nicky is going on vacation with them to the west coast for 3 weeks. When Parker goes up to Gideon's Cove and see the house she inheirited she finds a rundown shack. Her great Aunt was a horder and stuff was everywhere. The town is small so she slept in her car. James shows up the next morning to offer help again reminding her he did construction to put himself through collage. He tells her all that needs fixing so she agrees he can stay. Parker think her father's still paying him to help her this summer. Parker is jealous of James and her father's pet snake. They are closer to her father than she is. I really like the supporting characters of the book they added to the charm of it. I laughed and smiled a lot while reading Somebody to Love. I want to go and read more books about Gideon's Cove. Parker has a good attidude and is not afraid to get into doing the work even though she has to be shown how to do it. She also ends up getting a dog because the dog is going to be killed that day. After we find that was a lie. I was given this book to read in exchange for honest review from Netgalley. 04/24/2012 PUB HQN 432 pages (less)

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Jul 19, 2012 Maria rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: just-finished

I listened to the audiobook version because I'm a huge fan of the narrator, Justine Eyre. She did a fantastic job, and what a great book! I loved this novel! I'm not at all a fan of the kinky, badly written erotica that's become a hit on the bestseller lists. It's just not my thing. And this book proves it. There was nothing matronly or old-fashioned about this novel, yet it was clean, well-written and totally engaging! I love that the author can create some really hot chemistry between the two...more

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Jun 26, 2012 Anna rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporany, romance

Maggie is beautiful, rich, educated and a successful writer, but she couldn’t care less. She cares for his son, Ethan - his son’s father- and Lucy, her best friend, recently married to Ethan. She faces her economic downfall stoically, going from ultra-rich to hard-worker almost effortless. But while it’s impossible not to like Maggie, one can’t avoid wondering if such a perfect being is plausible.

She has but one defect: she distrusts men, and she is icy with the male gender, specially with hot T...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Cara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Oh, Kristan Higgins. How I love you!

Somebody to Love incorporates characters from the previous books The Next Best Thing and Catch of the Day. Since Catch of the Day was my favorite Higgins book to date, I was delighted to return to Gideon's Cove and catch up with all the characters there.

Parker Welles, a trust fund baby and children's book author, finds out she is not longer wealthy due to her dad's investment ponzi scheme. He liquidates her and her young son's assets to pay off his debt. Fortu...more

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Jun 21, 2012 Virginia Nelson rated it 5 of 5 stars

Parker is slammed from being a rich single mother living in an enormous house down to earth, Holy Rollers in tow, and into a hoarder hell. Her only possible help is James, or Thing One as she likes to call him, her father's henchman and superhot one time fling.

James has wanted Parker since the first time he laid eyes on her. This chance to spend a summer helping her, while paying back an imagined debt to her father, is one he isn't passing up. But for things to work out between them, he doesn't...more

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May 31, 2012 Starry marked it as to-read

Shelves: books-that-i-didn-t-but-will-finish

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon's Cove, Maine, to sell the only thing she now owns—a decrepit house in need of some serious flipping. When her father's wingman, James Cahill, asks to go with her, she's not thrilled -- even if he is fairly gorgeous and knows his way around a toolbox.

Having to fend for herself financially for the first time in her life, Parker...more

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May 25, 2012 Big Girl Books added it

Shelves: cupcake, chocolate-kiss, contemporary, chocolate-chip-cookie, michelle, lollipop

Kristin Higgins is another one of my favorite authors. She always seems to find a way to incorporate comedy and real-life situations into her stories. Plus, lets not forget the little hints of sexy times with swoony boys. And you know me, I’m all about that.

Let me tell you a not-so-secret secret. I love book covers. I am a sucker for them as much as I am a sucker for sexy times. And in the case of Somebody To Love? It was instant love. See, this is probably why I love contemporary romances. Ther...more Kristin Higgins is another one of my favorite authors. She always seems to find a way to incorporate comedy and real-life situations into her stories. Plus, lets not forget the little hints of sexy times with swoony boys. And you know me, I’m all about that.

Let me tell you a not-so-secret secret. I love book covers. I am a sucker for them as much as I am a sucker for sexy times. And in the case of Somebody To Love? It was instant love. See, this is probably why I love contemporary romances. There’s always a cute cover to go a long with it. I mean, look at this cover. How can you not love this cover? The adorable and in love couple? The scenery? That dog?!

Somebody To Love begins with children’s book author Parker Harrington Welles reading to her son’s class. As she recites the last few words of the last book in her Holy Rollers series, she anticipates the moments until she puts those characters to rest. Unfortunately, there is no rest for the weary, or for her bank account. Next thing you know, she loses her inheritance, her father goes to jail, and she is taken away from the mansion that she calls home. Sure, she has another piece of property that was left to her, but it would be kind to call it a shack.

The thing about Higgins is that she knows how to make me laugh. From the moment that Parker started talking to her characters, which was on the first page, I knew that I was going to enjoy this book. She made Parker a character that was easy to relate to. She was emotionally stunted and attention deprived. Isn’t that a lot of women out there? *raises hand*

Let’s not forget that Higgins knows how to write a boy that’s easy on the eyes and will make your heart melt. James, or as Parker calls him, Thing One, is a great male lead. His character was slowly built up to be this amazing guy. He had a great depth to him. He wasn’t just eye candy, which isn’t bad either, but I appreciate a male lead who has history behind him. Nothing was cliché. Everything was enjoyable and as it should be.

Guys, the romance in this book! Tons of heart-tingling moments that had me wishing I was right there with him. Higgins knows how to write fluff. And it’s not extremely light and fluffy. We’re not talking a meringue here or anything, but Somebody To Love had enough sweetness to give you those far away stares into blissful nothing.

A huge theme of Somebody To Love was family. Higgins touches the varying types of families. I appreciated how things were realistic and not out of the ordinary. There were bittersweet moments that made me cry (like every other chapter), and there were moments that made me laugh (tons of snark in the conversations). I enjoyed every moment of it and remembered why I love Kristin Higgins.

Reviewed at Big Girl Books on April 11th, 2012.(less)

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May 19, 2012 Tina rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-reads, romance-contemporary

Kristan Higgin's last several releases have been a major disappointment to me. So much so, that when this book came out I hadn't even planned on reading it at all. But a forgotten kindle and a very long wait at the Dentists' office where this book was on a swap-rack conspired to against me.

I must say, I have never been so pleased to have forgotten my ereader.

This book is a sequel to The Next Best Thing. Even though that book was one of my least favorite of all of KH's books, I thought Parker (a...more Kristan Higgin's last several releases have been a major disappointment to me. So much so, that when this book came out I hadn't even planned on reading it at all. But a forgotten kindle and a very long wait at the Dentists' office where this book was on a swap-rack conspired to against me.

I must say, I have never been so pleased to have forgotten my ereader.

This book is a sequel to The Next Best Thing. Even though that book was one of my least favorite of all of KH's books, I thought Parker (a major supporting character in that book and now the heroine in this book) was a major stand-out character.

I won't summarize the plot but I will list some of the reasons why I really enjoyed this book:

1) Great romance between Parker and James. He's massively in love with her and really wears his heart on his sleeve. Parker is a great, root-able heroine. You like her even when you get a little bit frustrated with her.

2) Funny. James' inner dialogue is particularly funny especially his jealousy driven snark on Ethan (the father of Parker's son). Parker, is a children's book author with massive writers' block. Her failed ideas for a new book series pepper the book and are quite hysterical (and pretty macabre).

3) Great supporting characters. Much of the book takes place in Gideon's Cove, the small town where KH's first book Catch of the Day is set. We have a nice reunion with many of the characters of that book including the H/h Maggie and Malone (a.k.a Maloner the Loner). But this book also features Parker's botoxed, much remarried mother, her larcenous father and the absolute stand-out as far as supporting characters go, her cousin Lavinia. Lavinia alone is worth the book. She is an old, crusty broad who puts out cigarettes in the palm of her hand and has a sex life that George Clooney would envy. The descriptions of her geriatric booty calls and the fact that she's sexing up a judge to get out of a legal pickle cracked me up.

4) But some angst too. James' back-story is sad and makes you want to give him a big old hug. Parker's relationship with her father, Harry, is also a nice, more dramatic touch in a fairly light hearted book. I also loved how the dynamic between James, Parker and Harry plays out.

All in all this book was just the lightly comedic, straight contemporary full of memorable characters that I really enjoy. Glad to know this author has recaptured some of the magic with this book that made me really like her earlier work.(less)

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About Kristan Higgins

Hello! I’m flattered that you clicked the button. If you clicked by mistake, well, hello anyway.

I live in a small Connecticut town with a beautiful library, a great agricultural fair, nice people and not much else. I have two lovely, entertaining children and a brave firefighter for a husband, who is, perhaps more importantly, a fantastic cook. Digger from Fools Rush In is inspired my very own Dig...more Hello! I’m flattered that you clicked the button. If you clicked by mistake, well, hello anyway.

I live in a small Connecticut town with a beautiful library, a great agricultural fair, nice people and not much else. I have two lovely, entertaining children and a brave firefighter for a husband, who is, perhaps more importantly, a fantastic cook. Digger from Fools Rush In is inspired my very own Digger, our cheerful Lab mutt. We also have two cats and grieve for an occasional, short-lived beta fish.

I worked as a copywriter until I had kids and started writing fiction when my children graced my life with simultaneous afternoon naps. Writing, I surmised, was infinitely more satisfying than folding laundry, and so I started my first novel. Before long, I had finished Stalking Joe, whose title was later changed to Fools Rush In. Catch of the Day followed, winning the 2008 Romance Writers of America's RITA© award, which just thrilled me to my toes. Then came Just One of the Guys (August 08), Too Good To Be True (Feb 09), The Next Best Thing (Feb 10), and All I Ever Wanted, summer 2010. More books are in the pipeline.

I love to write books about relationships, since the search for love and security is one of the driving forces of life. And I try to focus on an aspect that’s common, if not universal, hence the “stalking” in Fools Rush In and the crush on the unattainable man in Catch of the Day. People ask if I’ve ever stalked a guy. Of course not! Jeez! Come on! It’s fiction! They also ask if I’ve ever had a crush on a priest. Of course not! Jeez! Come on! It’s fiction! As far as being crazy about one of my brother's friends, which is the plot of Just One of the Guys, well, yes to that one. But I'm not naming names. Dating a fictional man, like Grace does in Too Good To Be True? Um...can I take the fifth on that one? Whether it's my own experience or not, I try to find something we can all relate to.

When I’m not writing, I like to be with my kids, goof around with my husband, read, watch baseball, ride my bike and bake. I suffer from chronic bedhead and an unhealthy (and completely understandable) obsession with Derek Jeter, shortstop for the New York Yankees. Like Millie Barnes, I run, which provides the neighbors with some real entertainment.

We spend as much time as possible at our family home on Cape Cod, swimming in the Atlantic, shivering on the beach, swatting horseflies and watching fish evade my lure at Higgins Pond. It’s as close to heaven as it gets.(less)

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