Book review: Wait for Always, by K.A. Linde

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I have been anxiously waiting for this book and it didn’t disappoint!  Everything we wanted to know about Ash and Mia has been revealed, and what a fantastic story!

Amelia Ballentine has been in love with Ash Talmadge all her life.  It was unrequited because he’s been obsessed with Delilah Greer for so many years. And yet, I have an inkling that he did have a thing for Amelia once, at the very beginning, but being her big brother’s best friend, stopped the attraction in the bud.  And then he met Lila and started their on and off besotted history of 10+ years.

We’re taken on their story as Mia watches Ash break with, and reconcile with, Lila through the years.  Mia has also gone through her own relations with boyfriends who have been duds, and of whom Derek (her big brother) and Ash hadn’t approved.  She’s living her life on her terms, she studied fashion design in New York, worked with Elizabeth Cunningham, dated Camden Percy, then came back home to start her own boutique with her own designs. She’s been successful in business, not successful in love. And she has been a lovely friend all this time, supporting Ash all the times he’s broken because he lost Lila.

I loved that the story is told in dual times, the present and the back story when it all started.  Their relation is tumultuous and we see an Ash who wants to be with Amelia but falls victim to his obsession with Lila.  We want to hate Lila but we’ve seen that she’s a good person, she was just undecided.  Marley and Josie are good friends, and they have this tap dance where they have to plan get togethers preventing Lila and Ash encounters.  Mia is also having family problems related to her father.  We’re taken on the trip as Derek had his own mess with Marley and his failed marriage with crazy Kasey.  I loved reminiscing their stories!

Apart from being entertaining and steamy, this story was so full of emotional moments.  We see Ash working hard to move on and see Amelia learning to love herself and demand the respect and love that she deserves.  She grew into her own persona, loved Ash with all her heart but didn’t accept less than his 100%, so he had to work hard for her.  Very yummy, very satisfactory, it was everything I expected and more!

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About the author

K.A. Linde is the USA Today bestselling author of the Avoiding Series, Wrights, and more than thirty other novels. She has a Masters degree in political science from the University of Georgia, was the head campaign worker for the 2012 presidential campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the head coach of the Duke University dance team. She loves reading fantasy novels, binge-watching Supernatural, traveling, and dancing in her spare time.

 

She currently lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband and two super-adorable puppies.

 

Visit her online at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @authorkalinde.

 

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