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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 loved the hero­ine, Parker, and how much she loved her son. Plus, this woman talked to angels she wrote books about and hated. I mean. Seri­ously. This rocks.

So she’d yet to go on a sec­ond date with any­one in five years. So what? She tended to attract emo­tion­ally unavail­able men, any­way. Mar­ried men, engaged men, sociopaths, that sort of thing.

So, Parker’s dad has some finan­cial.. prob­lems and she has to go to Maine and do some­thing about a house she inher­ited, because the one she lives in right now isn’t right­fully hers any­more. And sud­denly James, a business-partner of her fathers and a guy who she never really liked, is there, help­ing her with every­thing in this new town and with the new house.. which is def­i­nitely not what she had expected. Her rela­tion­ship with James was inter­est­ing and I thought he was one com­plex guy, espe­cially for Con­tem­po­rary Romance nov­els, but over­all they didn’t blow me away with their fluff or steam.

On the other side, their romance wasn’t as awk­ward as some other Higgins-stories, so that is def­i­nitely a plus, and when I read it I was in a big Con­tem­po­rary mood, which means that I devoured the whole novel, but in hin­sight I think a four star rat­ing is as far as I can go this time.

Future Self, you have two or three other Hig­gins nov­els wait­ing for you to read them. I hope you’ll do that this year! :<
Sin­cerely,
Patri­cia


First Thoughts:

(view spoiler)[Dear Future Self, this one was probably more of a 4 stars read - It was in your opinion a little better than the other two books you've read, but at the same time not? You don't make sense right now, damn you!- but right now you just liked the way the ending wasn't too cheesy, and that the protagonists had real problems, and were real people. So, for now, 4.5 :)

Review to come! (hide spoiler)]