Wait for You by Jennifer L.
Armentrout
Avery flees her Texas hometown, and
the events of six years ago, by enrolling at a small West Virginia
college. She wants an opportunity to
start over where everyone doesn’t know that she is the girl at that Halloween
party. Where people don’t look at her
like she is dirt or send threatening emails constantly. Where she can get away from her mother who is
more concerned with her country club membership then her daughter’s well
being. She is very much hoping West
Virginia will be the answer. Then, on
the way to her first class, she runs into Cam.
Literally runs into him and now he seems to be everywhere she is. She just wants him to go away, she
thinks. Is Avery ready to try having a
relationship for the first time in her life?
This book is considered to fit into
the new “New Adult” category. The
protagonist is in that stage between senior year of high school and her first
job. She is dealing with her feelings
and extreme emotional issues. She is
falling in love for the first time.
I didn’t think I would enjoy reading
about a nineteen year old going away to college and falling in love for the
first time. Yes, that is mainly what the
book is about, but it is so, so much more.
Avery is damaged and has been damaged by those that should have
supported her. Her trauma (and it was
not what I thought, and worse then I imagined on many levels) is a very large
part of her life and moving on is extremely difficult and the author brings us
with her every step of the way. Avery is
awakening in all senses of the term and there are some very steamy, sensual
scenes in the book. If there is one flaw
it is that Cameron is too darn perfect, but the reader wants Avery to have
something good in her life, finally, that his perfection is easily overlooked.
