A review by kendranh
Those Who Wait by Georgia Spearing

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

Thank you to the author for providing an ARC. 

I have conflicted feelings about Those Who Wait. At its core it has so much potential to be an amazing mythological fantasy romance. But the problem is that the author didn’t get me invested in the characters. There were so many awkward time jumps that bypassed critical relationship building. Lena and Hector went from enemies to friends to lovers with zero plot to tie it all together. Plus this led to me feeling detached from the characters as a whole. And it felt like there was the attempt of a training montage, but you can’t training montage a relationship in a book! As I was writing this review my rating just kept dropping lower, which sucks because I really really wanted to love it.

Loved

• The idea behind the story was amazing. Archaeologist finds mystical amulet and is suddenly granted magical powers, I’m sold!

Meh

• The time jumps made it hard to care about the characters or see any real relationship growth 
• Everything felt rushed, like we were seeing an outline instead of the full picture 
• For an archeologist Lena had very little knowledge of Greek gods
• The gods themselves felt very one dimensional

Disliked

• Spending the whole book waiting for something to click and make me excited about what was happening