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3.85 AVERAGE
I DNFed this. Life's too short for a**hole heroes. Being handsome does not make up for either being quiet at all times or saying rude things to the main character, who comes across as a adoormat. Boring and unrelatable. And I absolutely loved the two previous Kristan Higgins books I read, which makes me even more sad about this.
Absolutely adorbs. Callie is a charming tornado of goodness meets & envelopes the very contained Ian the Vet. The journey to their HEA is page turning. PS Noah stole my heart.
Callie is ready to celebrate her 30th birthday (that's right, the big 3-0) when her boss/crush/ex gives her a gift, tells her she is special and then hits her right between the eyes with the news that he is seeing someone. Callie reacts much as the rest of us would, she runs to the DMV and has her breakdown there, much to the dismay of the uptight, Russian assassin in line behind her.
She tries to move on with life, so when she hears there is a cute new vet in town, she tells her dog to look sick and makes an appointment. Sadly, the new vet is the same Russian assassin from the DMV and is still ice cold, but that's when the fun begins.
Callie and Ian (who, it turns out, is not a Russian assassin after all) keep running into each other and eventually Callie breaks through the cold demeanor to find the shy man with a big heart that lies beneath.
Callie's life could probably be more complicated, although she isn't sure how. Her divorced dad is trying to make up with her mother 20 years after they split-up. Her man-hating sister is sleeping with the creepy mortician that works at their family funeral home, and her Gramps, well, Gramps has a story all his own.
Once again, Higgins has created a story full of people just enough and stories just weird enough to make it easy to fall into and difficult to remember that the characters aren't actually real! I find it interesting that while reading, I am fairly sure of a happy ending, I'm just not quite sure how it is actually going to happen.
The laughter, the tears, the romance - these books are money well spent (or library card well used). Don't just take my word for it, Higgins was awarded a RITA last month for Too Good to Be True. (Seriously, how awesome are these covers? Beautiful.)
She tries to move on with life, so when she hears there is a cute new vet in town, she tells her dog to look sick and makes an appointment. Sadly, the new vet is the same Russian assassin from the DMV and is still ice cold, but that's when the fun begins.
Callie and Ian (who, it turns out, is not a Russian assassin after all) keep running into each other and eventually Callie breaks through the cold demeanor to find the shy man with a big heart that lies beneath.
Callie's life could probably be more complicated, although she isn't sure how. Her divorced dad is trying to make up with her mother 20 years after they split-up. Her man-hating sister is sleeping with the creepy mortician that works at their family funeral home, and her Gramps, well, Gramps has a story all his own.
Once again, Higgins has created a story full of people just enough and stories just weird enough to make it easy to fall into and difficult to remember that the characters aren't actually real! I find it interesting that while reading, I am fairly sure of a happy ending, I'm just not quite sure how it is actually going to happen.
The laughter, the tears, the romance - these books are money well spent (or library card well used). Don't just take my word for it, Higgins was awarded a RITA last month for Too Good to Be True. (Seriously, how awesome are these covers? Beautiful.)
Mrs Higgins is my new best friend. I don’t really have a good reason for it, but this time of the year is always a little hard on me. This book was my refuge for an all too short, very enjoyable time. When the world was too much for me, I put on my headphones and left it all behind.
I cried and I laughed myself through this story. The author effortlessly hit all my buttons. She is an amazing writer. The characters are extremely believable to me, everyone has flaws and foibles. And I love how the heroine‘s insecurities (and other faults) are balanced with her obvious professional competence. And most of it is „show, not tell“.
The narration of the audio book was simply amazing. This book was not read to me, I lived through it. I heard not the voice of the performer, but the voice of each individual person as it breathed and lived. There are very few voice actors out there who will do that for me.
I also will repeat how much I like that in Mrs Higgins books the sex scenes are fade to black - without any loss of sexiness in my opinion. Maybe to me it is even more sexy when those scenes are left to my imagination.
And did I mention the dogs? And the nieces? I am in awe of a writer who not only writes great adult characters and realistic families and friendships - but who also gets pets and kids just right! They are important characters, with their very own character arcs.
And yes, this book should be part of the curriculum for aspiring writers on how to write a truly scrumptious introvert hero.
I cried and I laughed myself through this story. The author effortlessly hit all my buttons. She is an amazing writer. The characters are extremely believable to me, everyone has flaws and foibles. And I love how the heroine‘s insecurities (and other faults) are balanced with her obvious professional competence. And most of it is „show, not tell“.
The narration of the audio book was simply amazing. This book was not read to me, I lived through it. I heard not the voice of the performer, but the voice of each individual person as it breathed and lived. There are very few voice actors out there who will do that for me.
I also will repeat how much I like that in Mrs Higgins books the sex scenes are fade to black - without any loss of sexiness in my opinion. Maybe to me it is even more sexy when those scenes are left to my imagination.
And did I mention the dogs? And the nieces? I am in awe of a writer who not only writes great adult characters and realistic families and friendships - but who also gets pets and kids just right! They are important characters, with their very own character arcs.
And yes, this book should be part of the curriculum for aspiring writers on how to write a truly scrumptious introvert hero.
Callie Grey has been in love with her boss Mark since she was fourteen years old, and she works at his advertising agency, furthering her fantasies. Until one day, her thirtieth birthday as a matter of fact, when Mark tells her that he's dating someone else. She goes to the DMV and upon waiting in line, calls her sister to cry and vent, meeting a seeming impatient man. A few days later, she brings her dog Bowie to the vet to check out the new doctor, Ian McFarland, only to find that that new vet is the man from the DMV.
Callie goes about her everyday life afterwards while trying to studiously ignore Mark's new flame and get over her feelings for him. Ian is thrown into Callie's path quite a few times and she helps him develop a plan to make the people of Georgebury like him a little more and help his business.
After an awkward encounter with Ian's ex-wife, Callie agrees to go to his ex-wife's wedding with him. They have a good time together and are about to go up to Ian's hotel room to Do The Deed when Mark, his fiancée, and her father announce that Mark and Muriel just got engaged. Ian believes that Callie is still in love with Mark and that puts the kibosh on their plans for the night.
A few days later, after an embarrassing and crazy incident involving a turkey, Ian and Callie finally hook up and become a couple. Everything goes great until his aunt, the woman who raised him after his parents died, comes to visit and Ian and Callie have a huge fight about her defending him to his aunt. She leaves. The next day, Ian still hasn't gotten in contact when Callie is summoned to the family funeral home where her parents tell her and her siblings that they are getting remarried to each other. When Callie goes home that night, she finds Noah, her grandfather that she lived with, dead. When Mark comes over when Callie is alone, she finally tells him that she quits Green Mountain Media and makes him leave, just as Ian is coming to the door. Ian comes in and he just holds and comforts Callie that night.
About a week or so later, at a town festival, Mark finally decides that he needs Callie and she can't quit. Upon telling her that and ignoring her when she says she is not interested, he kisses her. Just as Ian is walking up. Ian breaks up with Callie and she tries to tell him that she doesn't love Mark, she loves Ian. But he won't hear any of it and leaves.
On the day before her parents' wedding, Callie gives Ian her precious Morelock chair, and that, more than anything, is a declaration of her love. At the wedding the next day, Ian comes and tells Callie that he loves her and cannot live without her.
Eight months later, on the night before their wedding, Callie sits around with Ian and his brother Alejandro talking. Before she leaves for the night, Ian and Callie share a tender moment and they live happily ever after.
I bought this book because I loved Kristan Higgins' Just One of the Guys and I hoped that this one would be just as good. Admittedly, All I Ever Wanted took me a little bit longer to get into, but after about seventy or so pages, I was hooked. The crazy, charismatic characters and beautiful plot line pulled me and hooked me. I couldn't put the book down, and while I still love Just One of the Guys a little bit more, All I Ever Wanted is a very close second.
Callie Grey was hilarious; I loved the running commentary in her head and the fact that Michelle Obama and Betty Boop were the characters that talked to her in her head. She was funny, charming, sweet, and all around wonderful. I loved her interactions with Noah, Freddie, Annie, Bowie, and all other members of her family, and Ian. I wouldn't mind knowing someone like her.
Ian was definitely an interesting character and I enjoyed seeing him develop over the book. I liked seeing him go from the formal, stiff, shy vet to the smiling, lovable, somewhat open man in love. I was heartbroken when he and Callie broke up and teary-eyed when they finally got back together.
I disliked Mark from the beginning. I could tell that he was using Callie and playing her from the start. There was always something rather smarmy about him. I'm glad Callie finally got over him and was able to fall in love with Ian.
The Grey family was absolutely adorable. I loved Hester and her daughters, but it freaked me out that Hester got with Louis the creepy mortician. Her parents were crazy but I loved them, too. My favorites, though, had to be her grandfather Noah and her brother Freddie. Callie's best friend Annie was pretty awesome, too, and I loved when she was trying to play matchmaker with Ian and Callie.
Again, this book was wonderful and I absolutely loved it.
Callie goes about her everyday life afterwards while trying to studiously ignore Mark's new flame and get over her feelings for him. Ian is thrown into Callie's path quite a few times and she helps him develop a plan to make the people of Georgebury like him a little more and help his business.
After an awkward encounter with Ian's ex-wife, Callie agrees to go to his ex-wife's wedding with him. They have a good time together and are about to go up to Ian's hotel room to Do The Deed when Mark, his fiancée, and her father announce that Mark and Muriel just got engaged. Ian believes that Callie is still in love with Mark and that puts the kibosh on their plans for the night.
A few days later, after an embarrassing and crazy incident involving a turkey, Ian and Callie finally hook up and become a couple. Everything goes great until his aunt, the woman who raised him after his parents died, comes to visit and Ian and Callie have a huge fight about her defending him to his aunt. She leaves. The next day, Ian still hasn't gotten in contact when Callie is summoned to the family funeral home where her parents tell her and her siblings that they are getting remarried to each other. When Callie goes home that night, she finds Noah, her grandfather that she lived with, dead. When Mark comes over when Callie is alone, she finally tells him that she quits Green Mountain Media and makes him leave, just as Ian is coming to the door. Ian comes in and he just holds and comforts Callie that night.
About a week or so later, at a town festival, Mark finally decides that he needs Callie and she can't quit. Upon telling her that and ignoring her when she says she is not interested, he kisses her. Just as Ian is walking up. Ian breaks up with Callie and she tries to tell him that she doesn't love Mark, she loves Ian. But he won't hear any of it and leaves.
On the day before her parents' wedding, Callie gives Ian her precious Morelock chair, and that, more than anything, is a declaration of her love. At the wedding the next day, Ian comes and tells Callie that he loves her and cannot live without her.
Eight months later, on the night before their wedding, Callie sits around with Ian and his brother Alejandro talking. Before she leaves for the night, Ian and Callie share a tender moment and they live happily ever after.
I bought this book because I loved Kristan Higgins' Just One of the Guys and I hoped that this one would be just as good. Admittedly, All I Ever Wanted took me a little bit longer to get into, but after about seventy or so pages, I was hooked. The crazy, charismatic characters and beautiful plot line pulled me and hooked me. I couldn't put the book down, and while I still love Just One of the Guys a little bit more, All I Ever Wanted is a very close second.
Callie Grey was hilarious; I loved the running commentary in her head and the fact that Michelle Obama and Betty Boop were the characters that talked to her in her head. She was funny, charming, sweet, and all around wonderful. I loved her interactions with Noah, Freddie, Annie, Bowie, and all other members of her family, and Ian. I wouldn't mind knowing someone like her.
Ian was definitely an interesting character and I enjoyed seeing him develop over the book. I liked seeing him go from the formal, stiff, shy vet to the smiling, lovable, somewhat open man in love. I was heartbroken when he and Callie broke up and teary-eyed when they finally got back together.
I disliked Mark from the beginning. I could tell that he was using Callie and playing her from the start. There was always something rather smarmy about him. I'm glad Callie finally got over him and was able to fall in love with Ian.
The Grey family was absolutely adorable. I loved Hester and her daughters, but it freaked me out that Hester got with Louis the creepy mortician. Her parents were crazy but I loved them, too. My favorites, though, had to be her grandfather Noah and her brother Freddie. Callie's best friend Annie was pretty awesome, too, and I loved when she was trying to play matchmaker with Ian and Callie.
Again, this book was wonderful and I absolutely loved it.
This was my second book by this author and I enjoyed a lot more than the first one I read. Callie (the female MC) has a lot of growing up to do and a lot to learn but she does it in such an amusing way that I couldn't help but relate to some of her issues. I loved the incorporation of animals into the book (and that none of them died for any reason) as well as the interactions between Callie and her family, especially Noah. There is one scene in the book that had me laughing out loud causing people on the train to give me funny looks but whatever, I was enjoying myself! Definitely a nice light read with a HEA if that's something you need in a book.
It's been said that Shakespeare only wrote one comedy, then wrote 15 or 16 variations on the theme. That may be stretching it, but there is more than a little truth in that statement. So far, I have to say author Kristan Higgins has written 6 variation of the same story. If you've read one, you know the drill: Heroine obsessed with an unavailable and/or inappropriate man, and who acts on that obsession in embarrassing and sometimes self-destructive ways. Quirky family drama that often includes marital strife of parents; and clueless, unlikeable, or downright mean siblings. The heroine (sometimes hero) in a relationship with someone else other than the hero (heroine) for part of the book.
All I Ever Wanted is most like Catch of the Day. I happen to like this one better than Catch of the Day, because Callie had some backbone and the author didn't make her quite so pathetic. Also, although we still don't know exactly what's going on inside Ian's head, we get a better view than we ever did inside Malone's.
This book started out slow for me. It's short on romance and long on family/friend drama. I didn't care much for the side stories about Callie's family. The only ones I liked were Freddy and Bronte. I also got really tired of Callie talking about how her "girl parts" were reacting to Ian.
But to end on an "up" note: I liked Callie. While she was pathetic over Mark, she was also capable person who other people appreciated and admired. She's a strong character who avoids being the dreaded "spunky heroine." Also, Higgins wrote some hilarious dialog in this book. There are some truly wickedly funny lines! Very clever.
All I Ever Wanted is most like Catch of the Day. I happen to like this one better than Catch of the Day, because Callie had some backbone and the author didn't make her quite so pathetic. Also, although we still don't know exactly what's going on inside Ian's head, we get a better view than we ever did inside Malone's.
This book started out slow for me. It's short on romance and long on family/friend drama. I didn't care much for the side stories about Callie's family. The only ones I liked were Freddy and Bronte. I also got really tired of Callie talking about how her "girl parts" were reacting to Ian.
But to end on an "up" note: I liked Callie. While she was pathetic over Mark, she was also capable person who other people appreciated and admired. She's a strong character who avoids being the dreaded "spunky heroine." Also, Higgins wrote some hilarious dialog in this book. There are some truly wickedly funny lines! Very clever.
I loved this story it was sweet, funny and made me have a few tears. I love Callie though she did annoy me a bit the way she could not see through Mark or her friend Fleur till near the end. This is a great book and am glad I have read it again. Have read most of Kristan Higgins books and they are all great. Would definitely recommend this book. xxx
Still can make me laugh and cry after all this years. Love the imperfection of the characters especially Callie's dysfunctional family haha. Those imperfections were what makes this story so wonderful.