"Just One of the Guys is a true masterpiece." — Dee's Book Dish

Just One Of The Guys is hilarious. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much while reading a romance...I connected with Chas. I liked her...I wished she were my friend. Yes, I lost touch with reality... In Just One Of The Guys a damned good story got told. —All About Romance

“Plenty of slapstick humor...Higgins provides an amiable romp that ends with a satisfying lump in the throat." — Publishers Weekly

"Kristan Higgins has a writing voice that is very genuine, robust, and amusing. She keeps the heart in romance without losing focus of her characters or the stories they have to tell. JUST ONE OF THE GUYS abounds with charm and the true joys and pratfalls of falling in love." — www.RomanceJunkies.com

"An engaging contemporary tale..." — Harriet Klausner

CATCH OF THE DAY

Winner, 2008 RITA Award, Romance Writers of America

 1/2 and Top Pick
Romantic Times

“Higgins has crafted a touching story brimming with smart dialogue, sympathetic characters, an engaging narrative and the amusing, often self-deprecating observations of the heroine. It's a novel with depth and a great deal of heart.”
— Marilyn Weigel

BOOKLIST
Maggie’s misadventures have entertained the gossips of Gideon’s Cove for years, but at 32 she’s getting frustrated with her lack of marital prospects. Accordingly, she embarks on a determined campaign, aided by the new priest in town, who is embarrassed by the crush she has developed on him, and by the members of her family, including her identical twin sister, who are only too eager to see her happily married. Fans of Janet Chapman’s and Marcia Evanick’s Maine-set contemporary romances featuring working-class people with complex lives and family issues will find many of the same elements in Higgins’ second romantic comedy, starring a protagonist narrator who is a charmingly muddled, good-hearted, but impulsive and outspoken woman wanting desperately to settle down with Mr. Right. But since he is nowhere to be seen, she lavishes her attention on good works, her restaurant, her family, and her faithful golden retriever, while ignoring the one man who may just be her perfect match. — Lynne Welch

NOVELIST
Kristan Higgins writes about the Far North coast of Maine and the rugged but caring people who inhabit it in such a way that I feel I'm there. Catch of the Day is the emotional, wryly self-deprecating first-person narrative of a woman who sees others — including her perfect twin sister — finding love and building families of their own, and wants the same for herself. Unfortunately, Maggie's life never seems to go smoothly — especially where men are involved. In fact, she's pretty much clueless, but she's also very likeable and good-hearted, always volunteering around town to fill her empty hours when she's not hard at work in the diner she took over from her grandfather. She's also engagingly upfront about her motives, and some of the blind dates she recounts are just hilarious. Of course, her perfect match is right in front of her nose all the while, and half the fun for the reader is spotting him before Maggie does and cheering him on as he bumbles his own way through their courtship. — Lynne Welch, NoveList, 12/2007

 
Catch of the Day had me grinning from ear to ear, crying, and enjoying Maggie's adventures in dating and life. Don't miss out, pick up this book today!

Outstanding! Great Read
This author takes a lighthearted look at what one woman thinks she wants in a man. However, what reality shows has Millie reevaluating her beliefs. Sometimes what we really want is right there under our noses, yet we are too blind to see. If we reach out and take that blind leap of faith, we just might grab on to something wonderful. This is a story well worth reading.
— Coffee Time Romance

 
Great Read
November 29, 2007
—Maryeff, Northern California

I LOVED this book. Couldn't put it down, and raced right through it. I'll spare the plot summary, since other reviewers did an adequate job of that. I will say why I think this is such a great book. The characters are real. Maggie isn't perfect, neither is Malone. Neither is Fr. Tim for that matter. And while Maggie envies her sisters life, she still loves her dearly. There's a lot of love among her siblings. Also, the book is at times laugh out loud funny (I found myself having to read passages to my husband -- the blind dates were hysterical) and tear-jerker emotional. I really missed the characters after I was finished, which is the perfect way to end a book. I promise you won't be sorry that you picked this book up.

 
Top notch!
September 22, 2007
— By Dee

Once again, Kristan Higgins has written a wonderful, captivating story of love and laughter, that I couldn't put down. From the very first sentence, I became engrossed in the tale of Maggie and her laughable lovelife. From being publicly dumped by her sweetheart to falling in love with a priest, Maggie navigates the path to true love with an entire town watching (and very often commenting). Maggie learns that love doesn't always come when you want it, or from where you want it, but when you least expect it. This book was FABulous. I thoroughly enjoyed Ms. Higgins characters, from the amazing Maggie to the silent Malone, and everyone in between. Like her first novel, "Fools Rush In", this book will be on my shelf for a long time to come, and I will recommend it to everyone I know.

 
A lighthearted contemporary romance
September 6, 2007
— Harriet Klausner, A reviewer

CATCH OF THE DAY is a lighthearted contemporary romance starring two opposites as she never shuts up (her asides are often witty self-deprecating digs) and he never opens his mouth except to eat. Fans will enjoy their relationship as the eccentric townies are shocked that love blossoms between them.