I've been meaning to read this series for quite some time now and considering the last book in the series comes out soon, I figured I would dig in. And I dug in with a vengeance! I stayed up until 1 in the morning because I just needed to know what was going to happen next. I. COULD. NOT. PUT. THE. BOOK. DOWN. I know I've said this a hundred times in my reviews but, if I like the main characters I am far more likely to want to continue with the story even if it's not the best book ever written. Is Wait for You ground breaking literature? No... not at all. But was it compelling? Yes... absolutely. 
 Wait for You is a character drama at its core. I'll be honest; it got pretty dark at times. How dark? It was so dark once that I had trouble reading it. So be forewarned that there is some pretty heavy stuff going on. (view spoiler)[ It's pretty obvious from the start that Avery is a rape survivor so that's not really a spoiler. However, toward the end when we find out the full extent of what happened it was hard to keep reading. Seriously, it's pretty dark, violent stuff that I don't even want to write about. (hide spoiler)] Considering the fact that I really liked Avery as a character, it made it all the more disturbing and haunting to know something terrible must have happened to someone I really cared about. 
 The one thing I really enjoyed about Wait for You was that there was always a light at the end of the tunnel. It wasn't just non-stop darkness. There were moments of true joy and a few laughs too. It really helped the story to feel balanced. So often the case with drama is that the darkness is focused on so heavily that the story easily becomes melodrama and, frankly, that bores the shit out of me. For me, if a story is going to be a dark drama it needs something to balance out all the despair in order to be a well-rounded narrative. Wait for You succeeds in this. Mainly I found the light in Avery which is amazing considering her story is also the darkness. Avery felt like a real person to me. A real person as in her actions and thoughts followed a logical and natural process. I felt like she reacted to situations in a way that didn't feel forced in order to further the plot. Rather I felt that the plot was moved forward in a more organic sense. This made the characterization much more dynamic and, in turn, the story incredibly compelling. 
 I mentioned earlier that this wasn't ground breaking literature because it's not. It's a fairly typical New Adult genre piece. I mean "typical" as in tragic back stories, learning to love for the first time, wacky best friends, and the magically perfect book boyfriend. So in this regard, the story was about what I would expect in a formulaic New Adult type story. However, Wait for You was surprisingly an absorbing character study and I ended up hooked.