Grade: B+
Recommended for fans of chick-lit and followers of RITA awards.
Thanks NetGalley and Harlequin for my advanced read of this. I'm officially hooked on Kristan Higgins.
So My One and Only is the first Kristan Higgins book that I've read and will definitely not be the last as I lost track of an entire workday while reading this little gem of a book. This is a fun chick lit read that others consider romance. Harper James is a divorce attorney, die hard Red Sox fan, and thirty something hoping to marry her boyfriend Dennis. She was married at 21 and divorced mere months later and is quite cynical towards love and marriage and all that mushy stuff. On the same night Harper proposes to her firefighter boyfriend man meat she gets a call from her little sister Willa saying she's getting married. Normally that would be fantastic news but Willa has been married twice before and lucky number 3 is Harper's ex-husband's brother. And the wedding is in two weeks...on September 11th...in a Dakota state. After the wedding festivities, Harper's trip home hits a bit of a snag and she is left with one travel option, drive back to Martha's Vineyard with her ex-husband Nick. The trip home is full of tension due to some unresolved feelings on both sides. The rest of the story is tons of fun with just the right amount of humor, sadness and a little steamy romance. Side characters are highly amusing especially a cabbage cooking Russian with a penchant for daytime soap operas. The writing is superb as long as you're expecting a fun escapism book.
After reading My One and Only I have to say how much I ♥ Kristan Higgins. New to her writing, this one has me hooked and I'm eagerly awaiting a weekend where I can plow through a few more of her books. Even though I had the ending figured out by the third chapter, this was still tons of fun to read. Like I previously said, I lost track of an entire workday reading this. While I am a huge chick lit fan, I'm not a fan of romance novels at all mainly because so few of them are well written and there seems to be a gross need to put an oiled and tanned beefcake on the covers. This is just the type of book I needed to read after a particularly crazy past two months. It was nice to turn off the neon Open sign above my brain for a day and dive into a fluff read. Kristan Higgins writes about identifiable characters who find themselves in outrageous situations. Realistic...from a character perspective yes, from a plot line perspective not so much. Who would find themselves driving across half the country with their ex-husband who still makes her purr...not many. This certainly won't win any Pulitzer prizes, maybe another RITA award and I think Kristan Higgins would be more than fine with that. I liked that this was a fun read and grabbed my attention from the start. Sometimes the characters grated on my nerves, but that was easily forgiven at the next plot turn. What I loved about this book was the ending. It was wrapped up neatly and thoroughly and didn't feel rushed. That along with Higgins' easy to read writing style has made me a fan.
Go out and buy this book if you need a day of escapism reading especially in the bathtub with your favorite bottle of booze or on the couch with a bag of chips and some chocolate.
If any of you minions have recommendations for which Kristan Higgins books I should read next, pretty please pass them along.
No comments:
Post a Comment