Review: Fast paced and delightful book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2014
Waiting for Rain is a delight – at times it’s laugh out loud funny, it’s touching, and it has some of the best written and uniquely erotic scenes I’ve read in quite a while. My screen is still steaming from the description of Rain’s pole dance for Toby!Toby was orphaned as a child and is a product of the foster care system. He has worked hard to achieve his success as the manager of a hotel in Britain, and he doesn’t let men get close to him emotionally. However, he is drawn to gorgeous Rain, a carpenter working at the hotel who speaks with a luscious South African accent, and oozes sex appeal. As Toby puts is, “If sex were a liquid, then its name would be Rain Engel.” Rain also has trust issues since he’s still nursing a broken heart from his last relationship.Mac Nicol includes a number of plot twists in this story that, while certainly interesting and entertaining, are perhaps just a bit over the top. Toby and Rain’s story is fraught with with a multitude of issues including the appearance of a former boyfriend and estranged parents, tons of sexual tension and action, colorful hotel guests and members of the community, a secondary story of the romance between two of Toby and Rain’s friends, fighting bullying and bigotry, lots of sheep, and genuinely funny action. They also get involved in solving a mystery surrounding missing sheep from area farms. (This is apparently the price one must pay when a farmer observes your nocturnal “fun” taking place on his hay bales …). Toby and Rain’s investigation is at times hilarious, and the resolution of their case of the missing sheep is simultaneously sad and reaffirming of the powerful goodness of a supportive community.Susan Mac Nicol delivers a fast paced and delightful book in Waiting for Rain! But be warned, you may never think of cute, fluffy sheep quite the same way again …Review originally written for Prism Book Alliance.  We would like to thank the publisher for the ARC in exchange for our honest review.