The Best Man by Kristan Higgins

I love me some Kristan Higgins. Just when I think she can’t reel me in any longer (not too impressed with her last book), she comes out with this gem.

Faith and Jeremy have been high school/college sweethearts. The happiest day of Faith’s life is when Jeremy proposed. On their wedding day, Jeremy jilts her (coward!) and his best friend Levi is mostly partly responsible. Years later, Faith is finally coming home. The past is in the past. Except for Levi….he is still definitely on her hit list (if she had one).  Growing up, Faith over compensated for (read the book) and was a people pleaser. Levi disliked her back in the day (not because he was secretly in love…more like annoyed of). The more she tried to get him to like her as a friend (because he is best-friends with Jeremy), the more it irritated Levi.

 

But not all the time….

As with most of her books, the characters in this story are well-rounded and believable. And her story lines…hilarious! I could read this one over and over (and I have at least twice).

I usually love a book based on the MC but on this one….I really liked Faith. She was a good person caught in a messed up situation. Her strength really showed. It took her years to deal with the blow of her break up with Jeremy but she eventually put her big girl panties back on. Even forgiving Jeremy and becoming friends with him again.

 

Oh…but Levi

He’s strong…arrogant….gorgeous….warrior returned from Afghanistan. *author may have gone a little overkill with him*

Nope. Don’t care. Still happy with the results.  *pants*

He has Faith pegged as a push over, goody two shoes, but Faith is starting to prove him otherwise. He tries to resist his attraction to her because (read the book) but he cannot keep his mind off her and his eyes off her “amazing rack” (his words, not mine).

Plus that one incident in high school…

That has got to be one of the hottest reads I’ve read in a while. There’s no sex scene. But (oh lord!) the longing, the sexual tension…

 She glared. He grinned. And then she blushed, her cheeks growing pink, color staining her throat and chest. Her eyes fluttered down his bare torso. Then she jerked her gaze back to the vine and fumbled for a tie.

Dropped it.

Well, well, well. Levi’s smile grew.

Also…

She moved steadily, bending, sometimes kneeling, holding a cluster of the dusky grapes in her hand from time to time, and somehow, out here in the field, everything she did looked unabashedly sexual. She was soft and round and sweaty now, her red hair in pigtails, basically any male’s fantasy of a farm girl.

Jeremy’s girlfriend, dude, his conscience chided.

She bent over again, and the lust felt much less generic.

And on..and on…. I know, right? Holy burning panties batman. That flashback was the best part of the whole book. Hands down.

Writing: Great

Characters: Even better (no face palms at all)

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