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Title: Wait With Me #1
Author: Amy Daws Genre/Themes: Contemporary Romance, Adult Fiction, Humour Publisher: Self Published Year of Publication: 2018 Version: E-book kindle app ISBN 13: 978-1-944565-13-8 ISBN 13: 1-944565-13-2 R E V I E W...
4.5 complimentary stars!
Now, this is a story with spirit. Romance readers assemble! This is your hot spot that needs visiting during daytime hours or night time hours at least once because this story is a must read.
Kate Smith, best-selling writer extraordinaire and all-around beguiling and charismatic lady of charm and simple pleasures, smut is her style and smut is her penned passion. Unfortunately for Kate though, her enthusiastic writer’s brain has taken a hit with a strong dose of gusto. A furious case of writer’s block casts a literary drought on her writing abilities, only nourished and hydrated by the comforts of complimentary treats at the CCC, otherwise known as the Customer Comfort Centre of her nearest Tire Shop… 'But love is a wild creature. You can’t contain it or control it. You can’t break it and tell it no. It’s a charging animal that you must accept as your destiny. That is how I feel about the Tire Depot CCC: true, unadulterated love.’ “You smell like coffee and rubber.” “Also known as freedom.” I sigh wistfully and yearn to be back there.’
…a place where her block miraculously disappears, a phenomenon of writing zen where words just flow like a free-flowing river, the perfect spot where inspiration ripples, drizzles and glides through her fingertips…and what do they say about desperation? It indeed calls for desperate measures…and perhaps some baked goods from what has to be a fabled lounge that calls to her pen-name.
“But our productivity is closely linked to our state of mind. If you find the vibe somewhere, you gotta fight for it. A cool vibe is like a modern-day muse. Tire Depot is to me what Fanny Brawne was to John Keats! That’s poetry in motion that you cannot walk away from! They’ll probably write about this in history after I croak.”
The pressure is on to deliver to her readers, now the time for Mercedes Lee Loveletter to whip out the ninja-like stealth from her reserves of desperation and indulge in some small time trespass for operation ‘Kate needs her mojo back’. Yes, sounds very dramatic but also less than reassuring because she’s not as good at it as she thinks. Miles Hudson, bookworthy boyfriend of this rom com and employee at Tire Depot notices an conspicuous redhead sneaking her way through the depot but doesn’t have the heart to stop this lady on a mission in her tracks. After a bribe of the edible kind though, Miles agrees to keep her oh so sordid secret.
‘One time, I had to bite my fist to stop myself from laughing out loud when she dreamily closed her eyes, licked her lips seductively, and air-kissed the room. She totally writes dirty books.’
This book has received acclaim for the right reasons, something I discovered once I ate my spoils and polished off the last page. Rom com is a very appropriate way to describe this story; so quirky and laugh-out-loud and so very swoon-worthy…*cough* because that’s all down to book boyfriend Miles Hudson. I don’t think you know swoon-worthy until you’ve met the hero of this book.
“I’m as real as they come, and I’ll put all your fictional studs to shame, you got that?” “Maybe it’s Mile Hudson magic.”
‘Wait With Me’ by Amy Daws is, without hesitation, my kind of book and one of the best romance reads I’ve had the pleasure of letting take over my life for a few days. I loved the parallels of fiction and reality through a writer’s eyes, along with the comparisons of the paradoxical life of Kate’s ‘real life’ love story to the fictional romance references mentioned throughout. With reading and romance references that every lover of the contemporary romance genre can call their own, it makes this read a little bit special. There’s nothing quite as thrilling as having your reads imbued with a reader’s very passion and lifeblood.
‘You know that point in a romance novel where the girl bares her heart to the guy, and he tells her that he’s loved her since the first moment he laid eyes on her? That’s not how my story with Miles went.’
This story is infused with charm, quirk, authenticity and breathes a quality that I can only describe as salt-of-the-earth. An outlandish and peculiar but unique start to a love story, made all the more interesting when you realise that this story is actually loosely based on the author’s experience of writing this story in her very own feverish goal of finishing this book. A bit of fact mixed in with a whole of of fiction gifts us a foundation of the believable and original. The interesting thing about this story’s concoction is that the circumstance of Kate’s desperate plight parallels the author’s experience of writing this book. Crazy and fascinating but you can’t make this stuff up. Fated beauty in fine doses.
“That’s an incredible story.” “Book-worthy,” I correct with a grin.”
There are many compliments I can give this book. It's gorgeous. It's addictive. It's entertainment personified. It’s deftly written. It’s effectively edited. It’s absolutely enjoyable with characters that have genuine chemistry. There’s tension and drama and so many laugh-worthy moments that it was destined to be a page turner. A story with wit, finesse and tact, written with the dual purpose of giving so much more than it takes. It’s not a difficult feat for a story to steal some tears from me; that’s just the life of an emotional reader, but it is challenging for a book to make its way onto my favourites list, a chore this book suavely and smartly managed to do!
“This is the point in the story where I rip the couple apart and ruin everything they thought they knew about each other.” “Ouch,” he states, pressing his fist to his heart in mock pain. “Can’t they just be happy?” “What’s dramatic about happy?” I ask with a laugh. “My readers like the pain, the torture. They love when I rip stuff up and put it all back together.”
Amy Daws encourages you to follow the oh so glamorous life of a desperate writer drunk on the temptation of free caffeine, Miles Hudson fumes and a possible real life happy ending, not a fictional one! A friends with benefits romance that promises unexpected tire trophies, rainstorms that light up the passion, grand gestures that aren’t so grand, unwelcome drama, laughter that unburdens and a perfect fictional boyfriend who I’d bribe with pizza anytime. Down to earth, salt-of-the-earth tire shop rom com complete with perfect book boyfriends, a desperate case of writer’s block and the lure of complementary coffee.
“That sounds like the worst ending to a book I’ve ever heard.” “This isn’t a book!” I shriek.’ I gave this book 4.5 stars -C O N T E N T W A R N I N G: Lots of profanity and descriptive bedroom scenes.
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