Review: The Waiting Is Over
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2014
Seven years is a long time to love someone without them returning your love by word or deed, or them acknowledging that you are more than just a friend. I don't know anyone who'd wait that long.Saroj did, but the waiting period is over when this story begins. I can't say I blame her. Adam's kind of...clueless. Maybe if this was about two people who meet in grade school then I could understand his lack of knowing what Saroj felt for him. But they were adults when they met, became friends...and stayed friends.Saroj's love for Adam is front and center, right behind her decision that it's time to move on. Of course, it's then that Adam notices she might mean more to him than he originally thought. Or maybe it's because Johnny kisses her?Funny how the unexpected is meant to work in one's favor but all it causes is chaos. See though, that chaos actually helps. It brings perspective and order to a world suddenly tipped on its axis, which helps those involved see what they've been missing. That kiss did more than make Adam see Saroj differently. It knocked him flat on his ass and made him realize that everything he wanted in a girlfriend had been right in front of him all along.My favorite part of their relationship was that Adam was honest about his feelings for Saroj. In any other romance, the correct response to being told "I love you" is "I love you too." But for Saroj and Adam, that couldn't be the case. Saroj had years to go from like to love. Adam didn't have that, and he told her up front that he couldn't "right now." After all the times my heart dropped during this story, it was so encouraging to read "right now" because it meant they had a chance--finally!--to be a couple, to make it work, to get past their hangups together.For a couple that is emotionally unequal, how awesome is that?***Received from Entangled Publishing for an honest review***