Since then Harper James has convinced herself she doesn’t believe in love, marriage and happy ever after. The reason she is anti commitment is because her mother abandoned the her when she was a child. Instead, her character arc is to come to grips with the fact she doesn’t like commitment. Even that would be okay if that was her character arc. If anything, these actions show me that Harper is a shallow woman who is emotionally insecure. She views him as beneath her (because she is so much smarter than he is). In fact, she only likes how he looks (hot) and how she feels when she’s with him (self important). What am I supposed to take from this? That the heroine doesn’t practice what she preaches? It may have made sense if she actually loved her firefighter boyfriend, but she doesn’t. This is the first of many internal character inconsistencies. But the book starts out with Harper trying to convince her firefighter boyfriend to marry her. She even goes about interjecting herself into strangers’ conversations to tell them how doomed their marriage is. It is about a divorce attorney, Harper James, who hates marriage and believes that every marriage will ultimately end in divorce. I haven’t agreed with these past complaints because there is nothing anti feminist with wanting to share your life with someone special but this book kind of puts some credence into those complaints. Maybe you haven’t heard but some people complain that your books aren’t very feminist in that they portray only one type of woman and that is a woman who seeks fulfillment and completion by becoming a pair. I really like reconciliation stories and this is about a divorce attorney and her former husband getting back together. I kind of liked her sister but she isn’t given much screen time. What I did like is that I felt the heroine’s position as an attorney was rendered authentically that she was independent and goal oriented. It’s like everything I love about your books got turned around and made into a bad caricature.

After I finished the book, I emailed a friend of mine and said that this book really disappointed me.

Let me try to articulate in the beginning what I liked about this book because most of the review is going to be what I didn’t like. Jane D Reviews attorney / Contemporary / First-Person / Kristan Higgins / reunited-lovers / second chances 36 Comments MaREVIEW: My One and Only by Kristan Higgins