In this sequel, Higgins adds characters to the Maine community that built her fan base. Like Maggie and Malone in Catch of the Day, and Lucy and Ethan in The Next Best Thing, trust fund baby and children’s author Parker Welles and her father’s right hand man James Cahill, must hike a rough hill to…
It’s a good sign the rest of the book will be hopping when you get a big bombshell you didn’t expect in chapter one and that’s what happened when I began Kristan Higgins’ The Next Best Thing. It left me speechless at first and then made me sputter (in a good way) quite a bit….
Though I had actually read, and greatly enjoyed, Kristan Higgins before, it was my sister who handed me Catch of the Day. “I think you’ll really like this,” she said. “It’s kind of a romance between a woman and her dog.” While I’m not sure I’d entirely agree with that assessment, I loved the book…