These characters really got to me and I love when a good book can make you feel. And even though I could see the big conflict coming from miles away, I think I cried for almost ten minutes straight.

The story was a nice mix of politics and the romance, so that the book always stayed out of the boring zone. These characters are trying to just be friends with benefits, but it was wonderful watching them fall in love when they didn’t even want to. The slow-burn romance worked so well for this book. I don’t always have the patience for just romance, but I really wanted to savoir every one of these pages. I read it all day yesterday and was sad when it was over. There were parts I would have easily cut out, but I was shocked by how fast this book actually flew by. I’ll start with the length since I complained about it. There are so many wonderful reviews for this book already, and I agree with many of them, so I’m not going to go into too much detail here but I want to mention a few things. Damnit! There was no way I could pass this book up now, and I just had to hope my head would stay in one piece. Do I take the chance and read the 600+ page romance behemoth, that might actually make my head explode, or do I read her new normal size book When You Least Expect It? As I was making a decision a friend told me that Those Who Wait was originally based on a Game of Thrones fanfic. After hearing “Haley Cass” just about every day for the past month, I knew I had to finally read one of her books. Fast-forward to now, when I’m ending the year reading books that were high on my to read list. I mean this can’t only be a romance book at 600+ pages, right? Well let’s just say that this romance book found a nice home on my kindle, sitting unread. Umm 600+ pages, are we sure this isn’t an epic fantasy book in disguise? There has to be dragons or a space ship right? Or maybe this is about a serial killer who’s on a long crime spree and the detectives can’t catch him. But then I looked at my Kindle and realized this book was somewhere in the 600-700 page range. I eagerly purchased this book, her debut, and was excited to finally experience “Haley Cass”.

For a brand new indie author to be causing this kind of buzz, well let’s just say my interest was really piqued. I’ve been hearing “Haley Cass”, “Haley Cass”, for what seemed like the last 6 months straight. Yes, it did have some debut bumps, but the story was so good that I didn’t care and it deserves the full 5 stars on just my enjoyment alone. The fact that this was a debut blows my mind a bit.

To everyone who told me how good this book was… you all were right! This was an excellent romance and one of my favorites I’ve read this year.

Those Who Wait by Haley Cass