Sandra's Book Club: Blog Tour: HE'LL BE WAITING by Liz Alterman

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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 17-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?

Read an Excerpt

“Tess! Tess!” Mom pats my right arm gently. “Honey, wake up, you’re having a bad dream.” I stare at her, confused. It was so real. I’d been tumbling, falling down beside a flat cement wall. I’d tried to stop myself, but there was nothing to grab on to, no banister or ledge. All I could smell was damp, wet earth. A man stood above me. I couldn’t see his face and had no idea who he was. But one thing was clear: He’d come to hurt me. Me specifically. In my nightmare and in real life, my mouth is dry, my tongue as sandpapery as Daffy’s. I can’t speak. My heart gallops, thumping hoofbeats pound in my ears. “This is how it ends!” he shouted in the dream, his voice echoing as I plunged into total darkness and struggled to crawl out of sight. I couldn’t move. My legs wouldn’t work. I want to tell Mom everything, but I can’t catch my breath. Was it only a dream or does it have something to do with my accident? What if it’s one of the flashes Lydia talked about? Memories attempting to resurface? My head hurts thinking about it. For once, I'm actually grateful to be in this hospital bed. Safe.

My review: An accident she doesn’t remember. When Tess woke up in the hospital broken and bruised, she remembered everything about her life, except how she got there.

This started off with an interesting premise. It sparks curiosity as to what happened. The diary-style narrative is easy to read and relays the character’s thoughts and emotions well, although, at times, it can be lagging and redundant.

Will she ever remember? Was she better off not remembering? These are the notions that compel the reader to read on, to see where this whole thing goes. It mainly describes Tess’ life in a slow and easy prose without many clues to the accident. You kind of have to read between the lines. It wasn’t exactly what I hoped, but it was interesting story.

A pretty good read.

My rating: 3 stars

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