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    Too Good to Be True

    By Kristan Higgins

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    How far would you go to get over a guy?

    When Grace Emerson's ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she's seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? Someone exactly unlike her renegade neighbor Callahan O'Shea. Well, someone with his looks, maybe. His hot body. His knife-sharp sense of humor. His smarts and big heart.

    Whoa. No. Callahan O'Shea is not her perfect man! Not with his unsavory past. So why does Mr. Wrong feel so right?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin HQN
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9781460300336
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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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    • 5/5
      I loved this book! I enjoy all of Kristan's books--her characters are fantastic: flawed, yet always seem like people you'd love to get to know in real life, and by the end of her books they feel like friends--but this one will always stand out for me. Its heroine, Grace Emerson, is a history teacher and weekend Civil War reenactor. As a history teacher and reenacter wannabe, I just loved reading her story! (One of my favorite parts will always be when Grace, reading an email from a parent asking how their student can pass her class, wants to respond "Work harder. Think more." but of course writes something much more P.C.)

      Grace has a lot to deal with as the story opens. Not only does she have a demanding job and a busy weekend schedule, her sister is dating her ex-fiance, the guy who helped her pick out the house that Grace now owns. After a particularly stressful family gathering where Grace, sick of impertinent questions about her love life, has unwisely...well...*invented* a boyfriend, she comes home to witness the vacant house next door being broken into. After calling the police--and hitting the intruder with her old field hockey stick--Grace discovers that she's actually just met her new next door neighbor, Callahan O'Shea. Of course, it'll be a match made in heaven; how could it miss?
    • 4/5
      Grace has a bad habit of making up boyfriends to get out of awkward situations, divert a pity party, and more. Her latest fake boyfriend—a golden-hearted pediatric surgeon—comes in the weeks leading up to her youngest sister’s wedding…to Grace’s ex-fiance. Of course, it doesn’t take a surgeon to see through her stories, as evidenced by the fact that her neighbor, Callahan O’Shea, an ex-con-turned-handyman with whom she got off on a rather clumsy foot, seems to have figured out her most embarrassing habit. With her sister’s wedding looming but her having not yet fully moved on, Grace needs to find an eligible (read: real) man to transfer her affections to…More chick-flicky romantic comedy than the more scandalous affairs I’ve become used to when it comes to romance, Kristan Higgins’ writing will have you smiling, bouncing, and sighing over this straight-up romance with the best of intentions.Grace is a smart and funny woman with a really awkward weaknesses when it comes to talking to and about guys that will make you both pity and empathize with her. Sometimes her stupidity when it comes to guys drove me crazy: you kind of just want to shake her and yell in her face, SNAP OUT OF IT, ALREADY!But when Grace is not making a fool of herself regarding guys, she’s the best, with an endearingly geeky love of Civil War reenactments (have you ever met a character who was into Civil War reenactments? I didn’t think so) and appreciation for teaching history. This makes it totally possible for us to cheer for her happy ending, when she finally gets it…and Callahan is no slacker in the “ideal guy” department, if yanno what I mean.Complete with zany family members and laugh-out-loud dialogue, Kristan Higgins’ books will now be on my radar forevermore when I’m looking for a sweet and funny romance. Highly recommended!
    • 4/5
      I was hesitant about this book, mainly because I have never been a fan of first person writing. Add to that the fact that though I read several reviews that said it was laugh-out-loud funny - the same thing I read about another book which I barely found amusing - and I was feeling gun shy when I picked it up. I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised, however. There were indeed several places where I found myself laughing like mad. Just one of those moments was here: "Mom, alas, was generous with her art, and so my cellar was littered with glass girl parts." I know that reading it out of context doesn't work, but for whatever reason, this moment in the book and this sentence in particular just had me hysterical with laughter. Read the book. You'll appreciate it when you get there. So, this book turned out to be far better than I expected. There were a few things I found annoying or at least cliche. Her best friend is a gay man? Hasn't that been done to death, yet? Also, a few of the writing mechanisms Ms. Higgins employed got old after a while. Still, as a whole this book was a wonderful read. I got far more attached to the characters than I usually do, and even shed a tear at one of the especially poignant parts near the end. Grace is a funny, neurotic mess and I loved her. Angus McFangus was pretty darn adorable as well.
    • 4/5
      Grace Emerson's ex-boyfriend is a prick. Seriously. And her younger sister? A spoiled moron. Grace sure isn't perfect either.Luckily, she has better luck next time around in the love department with her neighbor Callahan (I love the name Callahan, by the way). She accidentally hits him with a hockey stick...and then a couple of other times too. Luckily, he has a well-developed sense of humor. He also appreciates that Grace's neurotic tendencies can be construed as cute instead of completely insane.Once again, Kristan Higgins and both her trademark humor and poignant moments hit dead-on and make the book fabulous.One of my new favorite swoon-worthy moments of all time also occurs in this book. Four words: Gone With the Wind. Anyway, I've come to regard Kristan Higgins as one of my favorite comfort read authors. I know that when I pick up one of her books, I will get a well-developed love story, tons of hilarity, and also a few moments that leave me in need of Kleenex. She is great at making her readers get caught up in the lives of her characters. My favorite book of hers remains Just One of the Guys, but this one is a great read as well.
    • 4/5
      Good read. Grace Emerson mets her neighbor by hitting him with a hockey stick by mistake. He is an ex-con who was jailed for emmbezzelment trying to save his brother. nursing home. Her lttle sister is engaged to her former fiance who dumped her to date her sister. she needs a date for the wedding and makes up a boyfriend. Even Callahan O'Shea her neighbor believes her. Long story short, he can't stand lies due to what happend with his bother and resulting in jail time for him. The former fiance ends up leaving her sister in the alter. very funny. good read
    • 5/5
      Fun romance with real characters. Does she get him in the end? Of course, but the story leading up to the happily ever after is a good story.
    • 3/5
      Okay this not my normal style of book to read, but it was free, and I needed something I could read that was light. Overall not a bad book. I would recommend this sort of book to my wife for sure. if you are into ChickLit I think this might be up your alley. The characters where pretty well written, but I enjoyed the Civil War stuff the best.
    • 4/5
      Fast, fun chick lit. Similar to most Higgins books - great supporting cast (especially the family), slightly neurotic heroine, unique hero, bumpy path to happiness. Not my favorite Higgins but a great, quick read.
    • 3/5

      Amusing







    • 5/5
      Hilarious! I loved this story. Cal, Grace, Margs, Meme and the parents were just great!
    • 5/5
      Happy sad fun and bittersweet. I loved the quirky characters and found it to be a great story.
    • 5/5
      clean cut. lovely romance novel. light and funny read
    • 4/5
      funny and sweet