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Book Review of The Next Best Thing

The Next Best Thing
The Next Best Thing
Author: Kristan Higgins
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2


This was the first book I have read from Kristan Higgins and it won't be the last. I loved this book. Lucy was widowed only 8 months after she married Jimmie. Lucy and her Mother and Aunts who also were widowed, thought that there was a curse if one of the women married again that their husband would die. So, Lucy thought the best thing to do was just find someone that she wouldn't ever fall in love with. That might have worked if Ethan (Jimmie's younger brother) wasn't in the picture. Lucy and Ethan are best friends and when Lucy decides she is ready to date again. She tells Ethan that their "friends with benefits has to stop". I could not put this book down. This is definitely one for the keeper shelf.