It’s not like he has much ground to get all offended, being that he goes through hot women in the wife’s absence. He’s also mad at her for having a son without telling him. The wife lost her memory after being in a coma for three years (long story, don’t ask), and he’s mad at her for being married to another guy. Ms Naughton is aware of what an asshole Ryan can be here, as she has Kate throwing Ryan’s behavior to his face rather weakly now and then, but she then kind of validates his behavior by insisting that somehow she loves that man more than the other guy who is also vying for her affections.Īnd Ryan does come off as deranged at times. Now, it seems like there is some kind of rule set in stone that every other hero has to be an asshole. There’s a reason why I quit watching soap operas a long time ago, and this story only reminds me why and adds a few more reasons in the process.Īnd then we have the drama between Kate and her husband Ryan. The story is perfectly sober in describing the increasingly outlandish twists and turns of the plot, so I don’t know what to think.

This story is like an episode from Alfred Hitchcock Presents, only without the grand reveal that exposes how the whole outlandish thing is a twist to catch me by surprise. Our heroine is caught in an outlandish plot, and seriously, when the whole plot is revealed, it becomes even more outlandish.

She apparently had a daughter with him, so oh dear, what exactly is going on here? It turns out that, five years ago, she is married to pharmaceutical mogul Ryan Harrison. And then, the plane her husband is on goes ka-boom, and the next thing Kate knows, she’s discovering letters and notes in her husband’s desk (he’s, conveniently, the kind of person that needs to keep everything recorded down) that suggest very strongly that her life is not what it seems to be. Perhaps this is because her husband and she are not close, apparently having drifted apart even before her accident. She has a son and a husband, but things don’t seem to fit together much. Kate Alexander can’t remember anything that happened before she woke up from her coma a year ago. And yet, very little here makes sense unless this story takes place in an alternate universe. If I judge this book by how much the elements here resemble everyone’s favorite tried and true tropes, it makes the grade very easily. Wait for Me is an uncomfortable hybrid of a Harlequin Presents and a more over the top plot arc of One Life to Live.

Wait for me by elisabeth naughton