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?!
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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