He'll Be Waiting

De: Liz Alterman

Narrado por: Anna Caputo

What would you do to remember? What would you give to forget?

When Tess Porter agrees to pick up her boyfriend’s college pal at the airport on a snowy December night, she has no idea she’s about to embark on the most dangerous ride of her life. Two days later, the seventeen-year-old wakes up in a hospital with broken bones, unable to remember how she got there. Her parents are acting strange, and neither James, her boyfriend, nor her best friend, Izzy, has visited. As she struggles to physically recover, Tess wrestles with haunting questions: What happened? Will her memory ever return? And what if she’s better off not recalling any of it?

©2021 Liz Alterman (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

YA lit: spoiled teen in mixed genre story

Starts as a thriller or mystery and converts to coming of age story. 17 yo girl is in hospital with amnesia and injuries from physical trauma. She recalls slowly as cruel adults withhold facts. (When you tire of this, skip to chapter 30 for reveal.)
[What follows may be a spoiler though I give no details. If you have fully decided to listen, do not continue.]
Second half of book is unfolding of actions and secrets that partly explain the first. Tess is witty but highly entitled with specific expectations for those around her and critical where they disappoint. She is emotionally and sexually immature for stated age. (I liked her for being clever but eww is she spoiled! Is that the norm nowadays?). Long catharsis: truthtelling, apologies, gratitude, relationship development. Lessons partly learned, forgiveness incomplete.
Narration is excellent but slow. I went all the way to 2x speed as she seemed to tell the story about as fast as it all happened.

Sad, yet beautiful.

Tess has no idea how much her life is about to change after she wakes in a hospital with no recollection as to how she got there. However, as her memories start to return, she finds she'll never be the and again.

Enjoyed!

Pleasantly surprised by this book. It had me guessing for quite some time and was a well written story.

Heart-ripping anger, hurt, searching

Depth of each theme, mysterys and misunderstandings, cohesion and movement, lots of pain, lots of steps.. one small one at a time, life.

Captivating

Well read. Life’s good and bad moments all brought together in a story of love, grief, and perseverance.