Wait For It is billed as a rom com, but I found the humor to be more sarcastic than I prefer. The slow build up to their meeting takes forever, and it’s so satisfying when they do meet because they are textbook examples of not judging a book by its cover. She’s a technicolor cacophony of vibrance to Nick’s black and white lullaby, and a force that he can only resist for so long. I loved everything about Nick.Īnnabelle collides with Nick’s world like a ton of bricks. He’s built a safe nest at home and is content to shelter in place and be grumpy … until he isn’t. His live-in trainer and friend Jackson encourages Nick to seek treatment for PTSD, but Nick isn’t interested in another treatment regimen. Patience, hard work and determination have gotten his body stronger, but his overwhelming fear of relapse have kept him a prisoner in his home and in his mind. Nick Daire is a self-starter with the Midas touch, forced to take every day calmly as it comes during the arduous recovery period following a stroke. “Why am I impulsive and reckless?” I asked. It’s a lot for a rule-breaker with an immediate gratification streak. Now she’s navigating a nemesis at work who regularly lobs passive aggressive compliments her way, and her grumpy landlord who issued a fifty-some page tome full of rules for living on his estate. But she’s the Creative Director now, so slipping in late with a fleeting apology doesn’t cut it, especially when the team assumes she got the job because she’s the boss’s BFF.
As though it explains away Annabelle’s casual disregard for rules and makes it okay for her to be perpetually late.
She’s a free spirit with little regard to time management and, as the author reminds us often, is an artist. McKinlay spends so much time setting up Annabelle’s impulsive life and background that she misses the opportunity to enrich the developing romance between her two main characters.Īnnabelle Martin is a graphic artist, whiling away the time in Boston with her friends-with-benefits ex-husband, until her best friend offers her a fresh start in Phoenix. What starts off as a mostly chick lit kind of book wraps up as a romance with a quick HEA.
Jenn McKinlay’s Wait For It is a breezy contemporary romance with humor and heart, and a complex look at loss, courage, and happiness.
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