Guest Review by Dee 

TITLE: Wait for Me

AUTHOR: Susan X Meagher

PUBLISHER: Brisk Press

LENGTH: 423 pages

RELEASE DATE: August 30, 2018

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Molly Bradley has had a hell of a bad year, but she’s doing everything possible to keep herself from going off the rails.

When she joins a new book club, she finds herself using every spare minute to plow through the difficult titles the hyper-competitive members choose.

The schedule is so tough she would have quit after the first meeting. But spending a little time with Alexa Fox, the host for that night’s meeting, convinced her that whipping through a book a week was a small price to pay for the pleasure of her company.

Now all she has to do is remind herself that their growing friendship has to remain just that—a hurdle that proves to be her toughest yet
REVIEW:     

I normally write a review within a day or two of finishing a book. I like to do so while the plot and how the story made me feel is still fresh in my mind. That wasn’t the case with ‘Wait for Me’. Two weeks later, I’m still conflicted over how this story made me feel.

It’s a slow burn, the slowest I’ve read to date. The friendship between the mains was fantastic! Every single person needs a friendship like the bond that ties these two women together. As boring as it might sound, their friendship is what made this story work for me. The celebrating of their birthdays and trips away were so much fun!

Although I received this as a lesbian romance, to me, it is neither. Sure, there’s a deep friendship, but no romance until just before the curtain comes down, and both characters are bisexual. So, I feel it only fair to warn readers there’s also hetro-sex in this story. Although brief, the scenes are explicit enough to paint a lasting picture.

Alexa is happily married, and her husband, Dieter, is a delightful character. They appear to have the perfect marriage, contract aside which felt more like a plot device than authentic as it’s mentioned so late in the story.

And therein lies what didn’t work for me. I didn’t buy into the ending. It was too ‘pat’ which I could’ve lived with if I was given more once the ladies got together. Instead, I turned the last page saying, really? That’s it? What became of them as a couple? When the dynamics changed, did they make it work as lovers? I guess this is one of those books where it’s left to the reader to draw their own conclusion.

Would I recommend ‘Wait for Me?’ Absolutely, there’s a lot to like about it, so give it a shot.

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