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Wait for It
by Mariana Zapata
4 - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It was about everything. About life and death, and white and black and gray. It was about having to be tough when you weren’t used to it. About having to grow when you’d thought you were done growing.
Wait for It is the fourth book I read by Mariana Zapata—and now I can say that I trust MZ to deliver such emotional and heart-fluttering stories.
This book follows Diana Casillas, who happens to be the cousin of Sal from Kulti and the best friend of Van from The Wall of Winnipeg and Me.
We get a little bit of Diana and her back story in TWOWAM, but in Wait for It she starts off in the role of a single mother at 29 years old.. however, the two boys she's raising happen to be her late brother's children.
I loved the bond between Diana and her boys, their relationship was so wholesome to the point it kept melting my heart.
Family was a central theme in this book and I appreciated how the author handled it. Diana constantly carries the guilt and fear of not doing enough for the boys, and caring for two is a big responsibility that even the reader can feel the weight of Diana's burden.
What I love about Mariana's writing is how realistic and authentic her characters are. I love being inside their heads because they feel human and tangible to me. As weird as that sounds, her fictional characters come off as real people.
“Being your friend has been the hardest fucking thing I’ve ever had to do.”
41-year-old Dallas Walker is our big buffed tattooed love interest who has served in the marines for twenty years. In MZ signature style, he is your brooding hot-as-hell hero.
It took me a while to warm up to Dallas. I think this book among MZ's books I've read so far has the slowest romance, but damn is it rewarding. I completely adore Dallas by the end of the book, he really won me over.
At this point, my aim for in the new year is to get my hands on every MZ book. But I know I'll hate it because once I'm done with every book she published I'll want MORE.
It was about everything. About life and death, and white and black and gray. It was about having to be tough when you weren’t used to it. About having to grow when you’d thought you were done growing.
Wait for It is the fourth book I read by Mariana Zapata—and now I can say that I trust MZ to deliver such emotional and heart-fluttering stories.
This book follows Diana Casillas, who happens to be the cousin of Sal from Kulti and the best friend of Van from The Wall of Winnipeg and Me.
We get a little bit of Diana and her back story in TWOWAM, but in Wait for It she starts off in the role of a single mother at 29 years old.. however, the two boys she's raising happen to be her late brother's children.
I loved the bond between Diana and her boys, their relationship was so wholesome to the point it kept melting my heart.
Family was a central theme in this book and I appreciated how the author handled it. Diana constantly carries the guilt and fear of not doing enough for the boys, and caring for two is a big responsibility that even the reader can feel the weight of Diana's burden.
What I love about Mariana's writing is how realistic and authentic her characters are. I love being inside their heads because they feel human and tangible to me. As weird as that sounds, her fictional characters come off as real people.
“Being your friend has been the hardest fucking thing I’ve ever had to do.”
41-year-old Dallas Walker is our big buffed tattooed love interest who has served in the marines for twenty years. In MZ signature style, he is your brooding hot-as-hell hero.
It took me a while to warm up to Dallas. I think this book among MZ's books I've read so far has the slowest romance, but damn is it rewarding. I completely adore Dallas by the end of the book, he really won me over.
At this point, my aim for in the new year is to get my hands on every MZ book. But I know I'll hate it because once I'm done with every book she published I'll want MORE.