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Until There Was You
Until There Was You
Author: Kristan Higgins
Posey Osterhagen can't complain. She owns a successful architectural salvaging company, she's surrounded by her lovable, if off-center, family and she has a boyfriend—sort of. Still, something's missing. Something tall, brooding and criminally good-looking…something like Liam Murphy. — When Posey was sixteen, the bad boy ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780373776115
ISBN-10: 037377611X
Publication Date: 10/18/2011
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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4 stars, based on 131 ratings
Publisher: HQN Books
Book Type: Paperback
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kdurham2813 avatar reviewed Until There Was You on + 753 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
I always love a book that you can dive into and find yourself half way through within the blink of an eye. A story that takes you back to Posey's high school days when she was an outcast and had a crush on the bad boy in town. The bad boy has returned a widower and father to a teenager. Will she end up with her life long crush? Will her business become successful? A fun story that takes you on a ride, where you end up - I can't spoil this one.

With many characters in this book, I found it easy to get to know each one and love them all with their quirks. Each character made the story. From her crazy adoptive parents to a nutty cousin who hit a nerve each time she showed up in a scene, they all had an arc which gave this book more depth than it would have if just any of them had been edited away. I loved these characters so much that I wouldn't mind a sequel to revisit them again.

Another great book from Kristan Higgins that is a chick lit with a plot and story that makes you fall in love with each character. I would recommend this to young and old who want a book to curl up with and fall deep into page after page.
DanielleFM avatar reviewed Until There Was You on + 177 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
This book took off a litle slow but picked up pretty fast. I live Kristan Higgings but this one didn't follow her nomal pattern of drawing you righ in. If you read this as your first Higgins book please give her a 2nd chance!
reviewed Until There Was You on + 1155 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Fun leads, a great collection of secondary characters, writing that makes the characters feel real - I loved this one! The bad boy has humanizing flaws, the good girl believes in herself, the teens are written accurately, and the salvage profession is cool. I cried and literally couldn't put it down.
reviewed Until There Was You on + 29 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A very good book. I really enjoyed reading this one. I liked that the characters were well defined. You knew who they were before any romance was established. I enjoyed the side characters as well. This was a good read and I didn't want to put it down.
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Helpful Score: 1
I usually LOVE Kristan Higgins books. However, I did not love this one. The story was a little too unbelievable and too out there.
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Governess4hire avatar reviewed Until There Was You on + 146 more book reviews
My rating: 2 stars

I usually love Kristan Higgins' books. But not this one. Nope. Not even close. I'm definitely not one of those people who gave this one 4 or 5 stars. There's no way. It was a total snooze fest. It was boring, the characters lacked everything characters could lack, and I was constantly thinking, "Seriously? This got published?"

I know, I know...this is a harsh review. But I'm very blunt and to the point. It was horrible. The only reason I didn't give the book 1 star is because of the humor that's throughout the story.

I'm very disappointed with this one. How it has such high ratings is beyond me. I found it boring and dismal.
moondance120 avatar reviewed Until There Was You on + 422 more book reviews
Another sweet book from Kristan Higgins. Posey fell for bad boy Liam when they were in high school. He fell for the school's golden girl and broke Posey's heart with a thoughtless statement. Now he is a widower and back in town with a teen age daughter. Angst, quirk and deep felt sighs. 4 stars
skywriter319 avatar reviewed Until There Was You on + 784 more book reviews
Think youve read all there is to be written about bad boys? Like all of Kristan Higgins contemporary romance novels, UNTIL THERE WAS YOU takes a potentially clichéd idea and spins it into an absolutely adorable, quirky, and swoon-worthy love story.

Im not sure if Higgins has written other books in third-person before, and at first the change from the beloved first-person POV was jarring for me, but I quickly appreciated the best part about third-person in this story: that we get to go inside Liams head and see what hes thinking, understand how his past influenced his present in a way that we wouldnt have gotten to otherwise. This, I think, puts Liam a cut above other bad-boy love interests: he becomes less of an enigmatic, unapproachable, mythical bad-boy figure and more of a multidimensional man. It doesnt hurt that hes an overprotective father to his enviable teenaged daughtertheres nothing like paternal characteristics that ups the desirable factor for a love interest in a romance novel, eh?

Posey is a pretty typical Higgins protagonist, with a quirky family, fairly independent means, and a cringe-inducing weakness around men. But its Liam, and the development of his character, that really carry UNTIL THERE WAS YOU for me. If youre a Higgins fan, then UNTIL THERE WAS YOU will not disappoint. If you havent read any of Higgins contemporary romances yet, what are you waiting for?!


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