Review: Waiting on You – Kristan Higgins

Does being nobody’s fool mean that you’re nobody’s love?

Colleen O’Rourke is in love with love… just not when it comes to herself. Most nights, she can be found behind the bar at the Manningsport, New York, tavern she owns with her twin brother, doling out romantic advice to the lovelorn, mixing martinis and staying more or less happily single. See, ten years ago, Lucas Campbell, her first love, broke her heart… an experience Colleen doesn’t want to have again, thanks. Since then, she’s been happy with a fling here and there, some elite-level flirting and playing matchmaker to her friends.

But a family emergency has brought Lucas back to town, handsome as ever and still the only man who’s ever been able to crack her defenses. Seems like maybe they’ve got some unfinished business waiting for them—but to find out, Colleen has to let her guard down, or risk losing a second chance with the only man she’s ever loved.

Series: Blue Heron #3
Release Date: March 25th 2014
Publisher: Harlequin HQN
Source: NetGalley
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

I adore Kristan Higgins books.  She creates these wonderfully wacky and flawed characters who make you laugh and can make you reach for a tissue.  But I think she absolutely outdid herself with WAITING FOR YOU (sorry Firefighter Meade…I think you’ve been bumped by a certain hot Spaniard).

Colleen O’Rourke has lived in Manningsport, NY her entire life.  She might be knows as the town flirt and town matchmaker, but she struggles with finding someone who has the same effect on her like Lucas Campbell did.  But her broke her heart and built his life in Chicago.  So she was prepared when Lucas shows up back in town to take care of his uncle and help his cousin get “settled”.    But what Colleen discovers is sometimes that first love is your only love and you have to figure out how to forgive to move on to your HEA.

I don’t think there is much I could say that would do Colleen or Lucas any justice.  They were both wonderfully flawed and still struggling with decisions they both made when they were younger that changed their relationship and the course of their lives.  They both may have laid a little bit more blame on the other for what happened (they were both incredibly stubborn), as they reacquainted themselves with each other and started to individually re-evaluate what had happened in the past, they realized they both played a hand in what went down between them, they both still loved each other and in order to move forward they had to forgive what happened.  It was easy for either of them and there were often some very comical situations, because you couldn’t help but laugh at most of the things that came out of Colleen’s mouth, but they eventually got to where they needed to be.

As with any Kristan Higgins books, the secondary cast of characters play almost as big of a role as our hero and heroine.  Colleen’s mother and her “Team Menopause” group of old ladies had me rolling, Connor, Colleen’s twin could sling a barb or two back at her, and Lucas’ cousin Bryce and his “romance” with Paulie often left me smiling.

If you’re looking for a book that will have you falling in love with a group of crazy, funny people, definitely pick this one up.  You’ll lose yourself, for a few hours, in the small town of Manningsport, NY.