ISBN: 978-1335903358
HQN, December 26 2017
One step forward. Two
steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to
becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a
car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she
thought she was dying? Two major steps back.HQN, December 26 2017
Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There's only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen years ago doesn't necessarily want her. At every turn, someone holds the prodigal daughter of Scupper Island responsible for small-town drama and big-time disappointments.
With a tough islander mother who's always been distant and a wild-child sister in jail, unable to raise her daughter--a withdrawn teen as eager to ditch the island as Nora once was--Nora has her work cut out for her if she's going to take what might be her last chance to mend the family.
But as some relationships crumble around her, others unexpectedly strengthen. Balancing loss and opportunity, a dark event from her past with hope for the future, Nora will discover that tackling old pain makes room for promise...and the chance to begin again.
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What I thought about Now That You Mention It
This is my first Kristan Higgins book. I was immediately taken in by the synopsis and I could really relatedto the theme of returning home to small town life after having seen a bigger world.
Nora is a successful physician working in Boston, has a great boyfriend, and generally has a good life. At least it looks that way at first. But when she gets hit by a Beantown Bug Killer van and her boyfriend hits on someone while Nora is out of it in the emergency room, the story is only scratching the surface of Nora's life.
Nora is a successful physician working in Boston, has a great boyfriend, and generally has a good life. At least it looks that way at first. But when she gets hit by a Beantown Bug Killer van and her boyfriend hits on someone while Nora is out of it in the emergency room, the story is only scratching the surface of Nora's life.
Making the decision to return to her childhood home at Scupper Island seems like the right thing to do, especially since Nora has some unresolved issues there too. A missing father, a cold mother, a troubled sister are just some of the situations that she must face. And there's the Fletcher brothers -- Luke, who resents Nora in a big way and Sully, who has paid a price for Luke's resentment. There's lots going on in this book and at times I felt like it was a cornucopia of situations, but Kristan Higgins weaves it all together in a way that made for a good story.
I loved the characters in Now That You Mention It, starting with Nora. She didn't always get it right, but she had some very difficult situations she had to deal with. The Big Bad Event was impressively written, and were some of the most tension filled and frightening pages in this book, even though as a reader I was aware of the outcome.
There are many other characters in this book that grabbed my interest. Nora's mom is the quintessential Maine-r ("She was a typical tough Maine woman -- able to shoot a deer, dress it and make venison chili the same day.") and had an interesting story of her own to add. The developing relationship between Poe, Nora's niece, and Nora also had me turning the pages.
The townsfolk of Scupper Island provided plenty of relief from some of the heavier elements of the story. There are some dark parts that are nicely balanced with more humorous scenes and I liked that about it. And there's girlfriend situations that everyone will find familiar. I loved how Nora handled those too.
And Sully. He is amazing. *sigh* and has the honor of being my first book boyfriend of 2018. I adored him and the way he was with the people in his life. I found myself craving every scene he was in. I love a good man, and Sully was all that and more. *sigh*
There is a whole lot to this story that I haven't talked about and I loved the way it was put together. Although it wasn't perfect as I thought the beginning was a little slow, I was so glad that I stayed with it. I ended up re-reading the last half of this book a second time already because I loved it so much.
While Now That You Mention It is more of a women's fiction title, the romantic elements are terrific and very sexy in my opinion, even thought they weren't explicit. I liked many so things about this story, from the characters to the way it was presented to me by the author. I will definitely be keeping a look out for upcoming titles from Kristan Higgins.
An ARC was provided for review.
About the Author
Kristan Higgins is the New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly
bestselling author of 18 novels, which have been translated into more
than twenty languages. Her books have received dozens of awards and
accolades, including starred reviews from Kirkus, The New York Journal of Books, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Booklist.
She is a five-time nominee for The Kirkus Prize for Best Work of
Fiction, and her books regularly appear on the lists for best novels of
the year of many prestigious journals and review sites.
Kristan
lives in Connecticut with her heroic firefighter husband, two children
with advanced vocabularies and long eyelashes, two frisky rescue dogs
and an occasionally friendly cat.
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