Wait With Me by Amy Daws

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Title: Wait With Me
Author: Amy Daws
Published by: Indie
Release Date: March 20th 2018
Format: eARC
Pages: 302
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Romantic Comedy
Source: the author
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2018 #LetsReadIndie Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 New Release Challenge
Find it: Goodreads ✩ Amazon ✩ B&N ✩ IndieBound
My rating:

Blurb:

When romance novelist Kate Smith suddenly gets writer's block as she's beginning the final installment of her international bestselling erotic Bed 'n Breakfast series, she'll do pretty much anything to get her groove back.

Like sneak into a Tire Depot waiting room because her words flow there just like complimentary coffee-smooth, sweet, and scorchingly hot.

She manages to fly under the radar until the rugged and charming mechanic, Miles Hudson, notices the quirky redhead slinking in and out of the employees only entrance.

But she's way too intriguing to blow the whistle on.

Doing a test-drive of her new book idea sounds like a much better option.

My Review:

I received a free copy through the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.

3 stars — This one started off really strong.  I loved the story behind it, hence why I requested it (even though I haven’t yet read a book by Ms. Daws).  And it was so cute and funny, and I was enjoying the characters and laughing out loud at the start!  At least a 4 star for sure.  But as the book went on, it started losing my interest.  I started not enjoying the characters quite as much, and there existed elements that are just not my *personal* faves, you know?  And alas, by the end it just didn’t end up being a hit for me.

Kate started off really strong.  She was quirky and adorable, and I loved how she was such a straight shooter at the beginning.  She felt very authentic a lot of the time.  But not all of the time unfortunately.  This book suffered from lie-itis…you know, where for some reason one character decides to lie (or hide) some stuff from the other main character, and while you may have understood the initial reasons, after awhile you just stop understanding why they haven’t come clean.  It’s not my favourite trope, and it took up a lot of time and space in this story…it was the basis for the main conflict.  And it became hard to empathize with Kate as much as I did initially…  I still did for some things, but I really didn’t understand other things she did.

I totally thought I was going to love Miles.  The Miles we meet at the beginning is adorable and funny, and I loved how Kate sort of got under his skin.  But his damage was way bigger than I expected, and I wasn’t a fan of his contradictory actions/thinking.  It was the kind of thing where if it just happened initially, but then we saw him figure shiznit out, then I would have accepted it.  But he continuously treated Kate like a girlfriend (complete with jealousy and possessiveness that I did *NOT* find attractive personally), while telling her he wanted casual.  It just didn’t work for this reader.  And as a side note with the jealousy/possessiveness, he had serious temper/anger management issues.  Also not something I personally find attractive.

As for the two of them together, while they could be super cute and had some great conversations and flirting, I was put off by their first major steamy scene where Miles was more aggressive than I’d like (without first making sure Kate would be OK with it), and that rubbed me wrong and so I just wasn’t as involved with them together.  That’s not going to make a lot of sense, but it’s just a personal preference that unfortunately tainted my experience.

I also found that the longer they talked about their awful exes and the horrible things they put up with, the more I started to wonder what it said about our main characters, you know?  Basically I got my think on, and my brain wouldn’t stop.

Now, saying all that, the hilarious parts were seriously hilarious.  I’m having a hard time writing this review though b/c my rating went down as the book went on.  So I’m trying to add more positive, but my brain is stuck.  But know that the book started off solid 4, it just ended more like a 2-2.5, and I averaged.  *shrugs*  Won’t stop me from trying another book by Ms. Daws, these just might not have been the characters for me.