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After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon's Cove, Maine, to sell the only thing she now owns—a decrepit house in need of some serious flipping. When her father's wingman, James Cahill, asks to go with her, she's not thrilled —even if he is fairly gorgeous and knows his way around a toolbox.

Having to fend for herself financially for the first time in her life, Parker signs on as a florist's assistant and starts to find out who she really is. Maybe James isn't the glib lawyer she always thought he was. And maybe the house isn't the only thing that needs a little TLC .

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarlequin HQN
Release dateMay 1, 2012
ISBN9781459226999
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Kristan Higgins

Kristan Higgins is the New York Times, Publishers Weekly and USA TODAY bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She has received dozens of awards and accolades, including starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Journal of Books and Kirkus. Kristan lives in Connecticut with her heroic firefighter husband, two atypically affectionate children, a neurotic rescue mutt and an occasionally friendly cat.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    My rating: 4 of 5 starsSomebody to Love by Kristan Higgins is a HQN publication. This book was released in 2012. I received a copy of this book from the publisher and Edelweiss for an honest review. This is a follow up the novel "The Next Best Thing". This book can be read as a stand alone, however. Parker is a single mom to five year old Nicky. She writes children's books for charity. She's a little burned out on the series and is ready to try something else. She has never had to worry about money. But, when her father, Harry, is turned in for insider trading, she finds out she is broke. No trust fund for her or Nicky, no home, no job. The only thing she has is a cottage on the Maine coast. So, with Nicky's father, Ethan, taking him on a vacation for a few weeks, Parker heads off to Maine hoping to 'flip' the cottage and make enough money for her and Nicky to have a fresh start. When Parker finds the cottage, it's a shock. The house is about to fall down and is pretty much just a shack. Parker doesn't know if she has the money to fix it up. Then her father's attorney, James, arrives offering her help getting the house in shape. Her best friend's advice about having a summer fling keeps coming to mind more and more and James appears to be game. James has been Harry's attorney and friend for good while. He and Parker have had a few moments between them, but Parker made it clear that there wouldn't be more. James really wants to have a relationship with Parker, but he is holding on to an explosive secret. If Parker were to find out about it, it would ruin his chances with her. Not only that, James has a very difficult family life. Another thing he is very secretive about. Parker also has a lot on her plate. Her mother is oft married and lives off her many marriages to wealthy men. Parker and her father do not like each other very much. James has often wondered what came between them. As work on the house gets started, James and Parker grow closer. But, Parker is worried about her son and all the sudden changes in his life. Would her having a relationship be too much for Nicky? Not only that James and Nicky seem to clash. Parker handles the turn her life has taken with courage and strength. Her thoughts are often hilarious. She is a good mom and puts Nicky's well being first. But, doesn't Parker deserve some happiness too? Both Parker and James will have to learn to come to terms with their family issues and the differences and misunderstandings between them before they can hope to have a future. The road is a little rocky, but this was one of the sweetest HEA endings I've ever read. A Solid A.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Parker Harrington Welles, trust fund kid, pop children's author, and single mom, confronts hard times when her father is sent to prison, but his right hand man takes over and of course she finds her true love...sort of a weird combination of down home and fairy tale
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Sometimes life throws you a curve ball. It gets fun when it throws romance into the mix. That makes a great story which Kristan Higgins gives you in Somebody to Love.A woman who has spent her life with all the money she could ever have from her estranged father suddenly finds herself and her son with nothing but a few bucks and a shack in Maine. Trying to salvage what she has of her life and start over, Parker finds herself alone with the man she can’t stand and who is her father’s right-hand man. It gets worse when she finds herself feeling things she had long buried. A relationship with Thing One is not something needs right now or wants. Or does she?The story was a little slow at first as it developed. It really got fun when the setting shifted to Maine and the various supporting characters stepped in. They brought life and color to the book. Ms. Higgins brings in humor and fun as she deals with life’s blows.A few times the story moved too slowly as it focused on the feelings of the characters. I had more fun as I watched them get into trouble and try to get out as best they could.There are some intimate scenes in this book but not too much that you can’t enjoy the romance if you don’t like them. This is a great read for the beach or on your own dock watching the waves.Note: The book was supplied by the publisher with no expectation of a positive review.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Really fun book with plenty of humor and showing the importance of second chances. Parker is the single mother of an adorable 5 year old boy. She has a solid friendship with the boy's father and his wife. She's had a best selling series of children's picture books. Her relationship with her father isn't too great and she really doesn't like his personal attorney. Things get really bad when her father is arrested for insider trading and she finds out that he lost all their money, including her and her son's trust funds. All she has is a house in Maine that she inherited. She plans to go up, paint it and sell it to get the funds needed to start over. Only, the house is in worse condition than she thought, and James has followed her up determined to help. So while her son is with his father, Parker and James are working together on the house, and learning a little more about themselves and each other while they're at it.I liked Parker. She is an excellent mother to her son. She may be wealthy but she's not really a snob about it (except to James). I liked the way that she donated the proceeds of her children's books. I also enjoyed her snarkiness about the sickly sweet angels in those books. By the time the series ended she really hated those angels and had some really interesting conversations with them throughout the book. Her excellent relationship with her father went down the tubes when she was ten, after she caught him in bed with her babysitter. She has an even worse relationship with James, her father's lawyer, who she calls Thing One. She sees him as a clone of her father. When dear old dad is arrested for insider trading she discovers they are flat broke, except for a house she inherited in Maine. She plans to sell it for the money to start over. Those plans hit a roadbump when she discovers the house is stuffed with junk and falling apart. I loved the descriptions of what she was seeing and feeling, and the scene with the mouse was hysterical. James's arrival and offer to help is met with grudging acceptance as she desperately needs him and resents it. As the days go on they reach a tentative truce and begin to get to know each other. Parker discovers that there is a lot more to James than she thought and that he's not such a bad guy after all. There's also a deepening attraction between them that she's reluctant to do anything about. Her son is the most important thing in her life and with all the changes in their lives she doesn't want to make things worse by introducing a man into it. Just as things are looking up for the two of them someone from James's past shows up and throws a wrench in the works, followed by a funny and heartbreaking scene in the local bar. I really enjoyed seeing the way that Parker was able to overcome her obstacles and come out stronger on the other side. James was fantastic. He had gotten a job with Parker's father shortly after finishing law school. I loved his sense of loyalty and how he always did the best he could. He saw early on that Parker and her father didn't have a good relationship, but he didn't know why. He did know that there was something about her that he wanted to protect. Since he always got dragged along when her dad attended any family event, he saw a lot of Parker. It was pretty obvious from the beginning that he was in love with her. I loved the way that he was always doing things for her, trying to make things better. I loved the fact that he went up to Maine to help her on his own, even though he let her believe that her father had sent him. I thought he was incredibly patient with her, considering how badly she tended to treat him. James worries about being around her son. He has terribly guilty feelings about something that happened when he was a kid and believes that it means he can never trust himself to have a family. It also caused a rift in his family that has left him feeling pretty isolated except for his friendship with Parker's dad. Being in Maine with Parker has started to lessen those feelings and he starts to dream of a future with her. He also has some pretty funny conversations with himself about Ethan, her son's father. He is quite jealous of Ethan, who he refers to as The Paragon. He starts to feel really hopeful when a blast from his past drives Parker away. I loved the ending as he wins her back. The epilogue was sweet.I loved the setting of the tiny town of Gideon's Cove and all the fun characters there. Maggie and Malone from an earlier book made several appearances. I really liked the old guys from the hardware store who were so helpful to Parker. I loved the dog Beauty. Seeing Parker fall in love with her after hearing her story just showed how much love Parker had to share. My favorite character was Parker's Aunt Lavinia. She was a crusty old broad who smokes too much, talks a lot about her booty calls, and has a heart of gold. She gives Parker a job working in her flower shop which turns out to be perfect for her. She has a greenhouse out back where she grows some of her own plants. The part where Parker sells one of Lavinia's "ferns" to a customer was a riot. I really liked the way that the entire town became such a special part of Parker's life.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Why I read it: I picked up a copy from NetGalley and I'm a fan of this author.What it's about: (blurb from Goodreads) After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon's Cove, Maine, to sell the only thing she now owns—a decrepit house in need of some serious flipping. When her father's wingman, James Cahill, asks to go with her, she's not thrilled -- …even if he is fairly gorgeous and knows his way around a toolbox. Having to fend for herself financially for the first time in her life, Parker signs on as a florist's assistant and starts to find out who she really is. Maybe James isn't the glib lawyer she always thought he was. And maybe the house isn't the only thing that needs a little TLC. What worked for me (and what didn't): First off, this is the second book Ms. Higgins has written in 3rd person POV and once again, we get (a lot - yay!) of the hero's POV in this story. As much as I have enjoyed her 1st person POV books (well, mostly), my continuing "complaint" was that there was not enough of the hero for me. I'm a very hero-centric reader I have discovered. More hero, in general, equals more win for me. I hope that Ms. Higgins decides to stick with 3rd person and giving us the hero's perspective because I just love it.Now, on to this book. I loved James, the hero. He's a genuinely nice guy - he's kind, smart, humble, funny, handy, built, sexy, very good-looking and all round wonderful. He does have a couple of darker secrets and something he's been paying for for a very long time, which serve to round out his character and save him from being too good to be true and too good to be interesting. I found myself extremely sympathetic to him as the book went on. His love for Parker, almost from the first time he even sees her, is something which permeates his actions - even though for most of the time they have known each other Parker thinks he's lower than a bug, he is unfailingly generous to her. He decides to go to Maine and help her flip the house for sale - he wasn't asked to by Parker or her father and he's not getting paid for it. He does it because he cares about Parker. There's something very attractive about a guy so steadfast. It can be something which can come across as wimpy but James is not a doormat. He's nice but he doesn't let himself be walked on either.As for Parker, well, mostly I liked her too. She copes very well with the change in her circumstance, considering. She doesn't spend a lot of time complaining and she's, for the most part, not a "rich bitch". Yes, she has had money all her life but she's not afraid to work hard - she demonstrates this many times while in Maine and it is one of the things James loves about her. She is also a devoted mother to Nicky - but she's not an over protective gorgon and she doesn't spoil him terribly rotten either - (I think most parents would like to spoil their children - the more money you have the easier that must be) - Nicky is still required to use his manners and behave well. She also has a healthy relationship with Nicky's father Ethan and his wife Lucy (their book is the only Higgins I have not read) - they are her best friends. Her mother is on her 4th husband and tends to breeze in and out of her life but the impression I got was that while Parker would have liked to be closer to her mother, she was happy enough with the way things were - there was no strain there. Parker has a difficult relationship with her father, Harry and resents those closer to him than she is. Which means, James. Harry has two "minions" which Parker dubs "Thing One" and "Thing Two". The original "Thing One" retired and James took his place as Harry's personal attorney. Thereafter, Parker called him "Thing One". To me, this is unutterably rude. It's one thing, perhaps, to think of someone by a disparaging nickname but to call them that to their face? Repeatedly? Well, it was the one thing I disliked intensely about Parker. While I understood that her rudeness to James was a reaction to her poor relationship with her father and her jealousy and confusion over his good relationship with him, it was still so very rude that I found it hard to reconcile.Parker has been writing a series of children's books called the Holy Rollers (earthbound child-angels on skates). The pitch was a joke but she's been stuck with these characters for years and has finally managed to end the series. (I did like the flat cat stuffed toy which appears later in the book. LOL!) Problem is, she is having trouble coming up with a something new - her ideas are pretty funny but not setting her agent/publisher on fire. Although she donated her earnings from the Holy Rollers to charity, now she actually needs to earn a living and she's desperate to try and come up with a new series. I liked what she ended up doing but no spoilers here! Nicky, Parker's son is a mostly sweet little boy but he's not perfect and he's not charmingly precocious either (what a relief). Lavinia, Parker's older cousin from Maine is a hoot - her descriptions of having steamy old people sex were hilarious and I nearly choked (as James did) when she described playing "Spank me, nanny" with the local Judge. :DFor fans of Higgins, we also catch up with Maggie and Malone and Chantal and Jonah and various other Gideon's Cove characters. It didn't feel too cutesy to me and it was nice to see what they were doing. Although, I'll probably have to go back and read Catch of the Day because I couldn't remember a lot of it, I read it so long ago.The bedroom door, while not firmly shut in this book, is a little more closed than I think it was in the previous 2 books - I'd be happy if the door opened again!What else? I can't go into some of the best parts of the story without giving away spoilers but I'll just say that there are some things towards the end of the book which I found very scary, emotional and moving and there were even some tears. I could have done without the intervention from Leah but I appreciated that all of Parker's problems weren't solved overnight and that, while James found some measure of peace with his family and himself, things weren't magically fixed there either. I suppose some people will find the epilogue a bit cheesy, but I appreciated that it took place 18 months after the events of the book (thus I was sure that they were making things work) and that James took the time to ensure Nicky was okay with what was happening between he and Parker.Parker is 35 at the start of the book and James is 30, so there was a bit of angst on her part about whether he was too young for her - it felt appropriate that she'd think about it and that it would be something of an issue, but I certainly appreciated that it wasn't beaten to a pulp. Parker gave James credit for knowing his own mind. Plus, James didn't come across as "young". He and Parker seemed very much equals to me.I liked this book very much. James is a peach and once Parker stopped calling him "Thing One" she was pretty special too.Grade: B
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Review:Somebody to Love by Kristan Higgins 4 STARS I had fun reading this novel. Its one that I thought would be a little bit different than what it was. I like the characters. They have dreams,fears,faults and love. Parker Welles lives with her little boy in a mansion all alone. She writes little childrens books that she hates. Parker donates the profits to Save the Children Fund. She does not need money and if she did she has a big trust fund and so does her son. That is till her father Harry comes down to the house and says the money is all gone. Even thier trustfunds. The goverment is taking everything except what she has bought for the house in the last 5 years. her car, thier clothes and personal items. She has around 10,000$ left and a house in Maine that she forgot she inheited from a great Aunt. Her father's personel lawyer James Cahill offers to go with her to help her but she turns him down. She calls him thing 1 and her fathers other aid thing 2. Everytime she sees her father they are both thier and have been for years. Nicky is Parker's 5 year old son. She never married his father, but has a good relationship with him and his wife Lucy. Nicky is going on vacation with them to the west coast for 3 weeks. When Parker goes up to Gideon's Cove and see the house she inheirited she finds a rundown shack. Her great Aunt was a horder and stuff was everywhere. The town is small so she slept in her car. James shows up the next morning to offer help again reminding her he did construction to put himself through collage. He tells her all that needs fixing so she agrees he can stay. Parker think her father's still paying him to help her this summer. Parker is jealous of James and her father's pet snake. They are closer to her father than she is. I really like the supporting characters of the book they added to the charm of it. I laughed and smiled a lot while reading Somebody to Love. I want to go and read more books about Gideon's Cove. Parker has a good attidude and is not afraid to get into doing the work even though she has to be shown how to do it. She also ends up getting a dog because the dog is going to be killed that day. After we find that was a lie. I was given this book to read in exchange for honest review from Netgalley. 04/24/2012 PUB HQN 432 pages
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Somebody to Love by Kristan HigginsNicky's mom, Parker wrote the High Rollers kids series and had just shared the lastbook of the series with Nicky's class.Ethan was the dad but they wre never married although Nicky spends someweekends with him and his new wife, Lucy who is best friends with Parker.She does live in the mansion in town, well just a few rooms out of the hundreds there.She always loved her summers there with cousins and friends and learning to sail.The Holy Rollers tried to suggest things to her to get her to go out more often also. They lived in her mind consistently.The mansion, located along ocean drive is in RI (hey that's where i live, on the same island just not anywhere near close to the mansion) is really owned by her father who stops in rarely from his place in NY.James, the lawyer was there when Harry told his daughter, the princess, that they were broke and that she'd have to move. She'd have time to get the things she had bought for her and Nicky out of the house, her dad had used their trust funds when he was dealing with insider trade secrets. He would be in court on Monday for trial.Love how they talk of most recent events: madoff and occupy movement.He had lost all of the houses and the contents. all but the one in Giddeon's Cove, Maine which her aunt had left her. On his way out of the house her father informs her that his lawyer, who also knows how to do carpentry will do with her to Maine to help fix up the house so she can sell it.What she thought was a shed, was actually a 2 bedroom house on stilts with a living room and a kitchen and bathroom. The whole place was piled inside with clothes, sewing things, all kinds of clutter. there was a path to get from one room to the next.James spends the summer getting the house ready to resale so Parker can get back to RI and her life.She had to take a summer job and that helps later in the book.There are a lot of situations where the relationships between people in the book are not all they could be, there are a lot of secrets from all over that come to light that make the book make sense, like the missing pieces of a puzzle.Heart warming and heart wretching at the same time as tragedies arise.Super book!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book was pretty good actually. I loved the romance, I loved the story, I really found it quite amazing. It was light, with humor, sarcasm, and some drama. It was totally worth my time, and I must say that I really enjoyed staying in the pages. Read it pretty quick too, because it groped at my mind, making me want more.

    Well, true it's an adult book due to several sex scenes (not explicit, but still), which isn't my usual preferred genre. But I can say with a hand on my heart that I might actually read it again. It was that good. There were a couple of scenes that got me laughing pretty hard, and there was the awesome epilogue that was... well... beyond romantic (if such a term exists).

    I would totally recommend it to romance lovers of ages 18 and up.

    So, the story is about this single mom, famous writer, very rich woman, Parker and her path to finding the love of her life. She goes through a troublesome childhood, which obviously rubs off her adult years. She's totally no experience in dating, or even talking to men, which is kind of weird, but hey there are all sorts of people out there. She's kind of shy and a little arrogant at the same time, but even with all her perks she still managed to get one special man to love her. And then brutally pushed him away... You gotta read it to learn more ;)

    The main characters:
    *Parker - I loved the strength of her character. She had gone from a multimillionaire to a penniless woman overnight, but she still didn't freak out. Well, unless we count a certain rodent incident, but hey that's quite explainable. I was in awe of the vibe she had. Even though she was lonely, with no new ideas to write, and perhaps no prospects for a job, she kept hopeful. The only thing I didn't like about her was her negativity concerning men. It was like she expected men to fail her. Period. But since there are many women who feel the same way nowadays, this made Parker look all the more real.

    *James - It was so funny to see Parker call him Thing One. Then slowly go onto calling him James. It was adorable. Well, what can I say about him? Tall, dark and handsome. Good with manual labor. Able to repair a house in a couple of weeks. And quite romantic. What more can one want from a guy, right?

    I'd suggest you give this book a chance and see for yourself just how good it is.

    Note:I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Just discovered a new author!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Well, it really was kind of predictable and all... But I did like it a lot, aaaand it made me cry (but that's probably just because my life is so pathetic...)
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Kristan Higgins is one of the top contemporary romance writers of the moment - most of her books are fantastic when you need a dose of chick-lit! Somebody to Love is not one of her best, but I still really enjoyed the book. It's so much fun to see what happens to Maggie and Malone from Higgins' earlier book Catch of the Day (one of my faves)! Also, the last scene was ADORABLE, I actually teared up! Yet, I think what made this one fall flat a little for me is that Parker is not as loveable of a main character as most of Higgins' other main characters. One of the delightful things about reading Higgins' novels is the quirky and endearing personalities she creates - and Parker's inner monologue wasn't as fun to read compared to past characters. Another issue I had is that there are a few loose ends that were never entirely resolved which made the ending feel a little rushed.I recommend this to Higgins' fans (especially those who've read Catch of the Day and/or The Next Best Thing [which features Parker as a side character]) and to those who enjoy contemporary romance novels.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Normally I think Kristan Higgins’ romances are cute, featuring an adorable love interest, but with a highly irritating female protagonist who engages in embarrassing behavior and/or doesn’t know when to shut it. Which is probably why I enjoyed SOMEBODY LIKE YOU as much as I did: there’s no cringe-worthy word vomit! Parker is a sensible, unspoiled, caring, actually desirable female! James is… Thing One. (Okay, no, but seriously, I’m always a little wary of a dual-narrative romance, but James is great in his caring and, well, his normalcy.) Higgins brings us back to the beloved oceanside Maine town of Gideon’s Cove, and we encounter endearing supporting characters both old and new. The wit and humor is as good as ever. With each book of hers, Higgins moves more and more away from her old formula for romance to explore refreshing new situations and characters. Loved it! Can’t wait for more.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The romances I read are usually either paranormal or historical. I like the fantastical element of either paranormal creatures and mythologies or reading about a time I will never be able to visit. So contemporaries have never really appealed to me. But I decided to get out of my romance comfort zone and try one. This one popped up on NetGalley, so I thought I would give it a try. And I really actually enjoyed it. The most dramatic it got were family squabbles and miscommunication, but I did not miss not having much action at all. I think really liking the characters helped. I especially liked James. He was sweet and funny. I loved the way he teased Parker. And Parker was great too. I was a little worried because in the description it mentions she loses her trust fund after her dad goes to jail for insider training. Ah-oh, a spoiled rich girl - not a character I can sympathize with. But even though she does live off her father's money, she is not spoiled or lazy. She works as a children's author and gives the money she earns from that to a charity. She doesn't freak out when she finds out she no longer has that trust fund. She goes through her options and does the best she can to provide for herself and her young son. Sex is very mild - as in, making out and then cut away to next morning, but I really didn't miss it. The story and characters were compelling enough to keep me satisfied.Very positive experience for my first foray into contemporary romance. ARC provided through NetGalley.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    If you like a breezy summer romance with great colorful characters, this is the book for you. It follows Parker Welles from rich and famous to down and out to somewhere in between. The storyline, while following a typical romance pattern, is fun and interesting. Legal facts are somewhat skewed in one story arc and a three-story, four bedroom house is described as "small". However, if you're looking for an easy, summer romance, this fits the bill.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was a good story, but I swear I've read it before...
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    3 ½ Stars

    I have mixed feelings about Somebody to Love. There were things I really loved and others not so much. One of the things I didn’t like much was the main character Parker. You know you have a problem when you don’t like the heroine in the story. It’s not that Parker was bad, or anything like that, but she felt somehow immature for a thirty-something year old woman and her reactions were or too much or too little. For example, when she learned that her father has lost everything including all her money and her son’s trust fund she doesn’t have any significant reaction. When she learns she and her five-year-old son are now homeless her reaction is: When do I have to move out? I needed more emotion from her. At the beginning I thought maybe she is in is shock and she is going to have a reaction later on, but the reaction never came. But with James Parker’s reactions were a little bit over the top. Something happened involving her son almost at the end of the book and even though what happened wasn’t James fault she was a complete bitch with him, she should have been upset with her son not with James. She apologized to James but for me the apology came too late.
    Another thing I didn’t like about Parker is her hate for her own books, if she hated her books so much why did she continue writing them, that was something I couldn’t understand, it was not that she needed the money or something like that. Also her mental conversations with the characters of her books were annoying and unnecessary.

    For me James saved the book; he is a gentleman, he’s selfless, caring, sweet and with many more qualities a perfect hero should have. At the same time he has a sad past that tortures him and makes him believe he is not worthy of love. He tried really hard with Parker, he loved her since the first time he saw her but somehow I couldn’t understand what was that he saw in her. At the beginning every time they were together she was condescending and infuriating. She didn’t show any kind of respect for him, calling him immature nicknames like Thing One or making degrading commentaries out of jealousy for his good relationship with her father.

    The secondary characters provided some humor and some balance to the story. Some characters from other books by Mrs. Higgins are also present in this book and new characters are introduced. And here with the secondary characters I found another problem. I have read couple of books by Mrs. Higgins and come to realize she uses the same formula over and over with her supporting characters. There may be new characters but the characteristics that give them life and are supposed to make them unique are the same as other supporting characters from previous books. It’s almost as if Mr. Higgins recycle them giving them a new name and tweaking them a bit to make them feel new but failing in the intent, in this I’m also including the ever present dog of her stories.

    Despite my problems with parker and the predictability of the plot I can say I enjoyed Somebody to Love, as with previous book of Mrs. Higgins the writing is good and entertaining. Somebody to Love is an easy, quick and fun read, perfect for a beach read or for a gloomy afternoon.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    One of her better ones. Almost a sequel to a previous book, but with only peripheral overlap of characters, so it's not an exclusionary sequel.