I was hoping this book would be different for me than the previous books I've read by this author but I think it comes down to it's not you, it's me. I'm sorry to say this book didn't work for me. I just couldn't connect with the characters and get into the story. Thank you.

This book was so entertaining. I was drawn into the story from the beginning and was involved until the end. The characters were complex and interesting. I found the story to be well paced and engrossing throughout the whole book. I was invested in the couple throughout the book and felt all the emotions through both the highs and lows of the story.The side characters were such an integral part of this story as well. This is the love story i needed to read at this time. If you want an entertaining and well written book this is it for you

As sexy as it is brutal, Wait For It will take your breath away. The author does not disappoint with the love story that is Tiffany and Blake. Sure to be a ride you won't want to end, I can't imagine giving this book anything less than 5+++ stars!

A steamy love story of a woman escaping a broken and abusive relationship and a man who is trying to gain control of a aspects of his life. If you are into two leads who make each other whole give this a read!

Blake, Blake, Blake. Oh, how I despised him in the previous books in this series. He’s such an a**hole! Cynical, rude, arrogant, and so sure in his belief that everyone has a price. He’s proud of his ability to read people, to find their weaknesses in order to break them to his will. I had no idea how Ms. O’Keefe was going to make me like him, never mind love him. But…she did. Tiffany broke my heart from the beginning. Young, abused, and abandoned by her husband in a NC trailer park with their three young children, I had mixed emotions about her. I wasn’t sure I liked her, even when I hoped with all my heart for her to find a way out of the poverty and abuse. Wait For It takes place about a year after the last time we saw Blake and Tiffany. Blake is still an a**hole, but Tiffany is working to build a better life for her kids. Ms. O’Keefe’s beautiful words evoke so much emotion, and are simply perfect. Tiffany and Blake experience a wide variety of emotions on their journey, and the reader is right there with them—truly experiencing it, not just reading words on a page. The words are gorgeous. Ms. O’Keefe’s word choices, anecdotes, and the memories and thoughts of these characters are so perfect, succinct, often harsh yet beautiful, painting such vivid portraits of these two broken, imperfect people who seem so different from each other, but who need each other to recognize and accept their own value. Blake and Tiffany have been hurt so badly in the past, the walls they’ve built to protect themselves are well-fortified. Watching the two of them break down those walls, letting themselves be vulnerable was a painful, hopeful, terrifying experience. With her beautiful words, flawed characters, and interesting storylines, M. O’Keefe has quickly become one of my favorite writers.

This was a decent story and I somewhat enjoyed both the hero and the heroine. However, nothing really stood out making it a great book.

Wait for It has a dark undertone that sets the stage for its themes with broken characters and raw emotions. I love how a strong and tormented woman who came from a not so good life comes along and forces a rich alphamale to open his eyes to see that money isn't going to make everything go away, though it is not a woman's job to do so. But it's something he needed to see and Tiffany was just the person to help him with that. This showed that people are not perfect and that perfection is not the end result in a story/life, but that imperfections and growth are. It was real and raw in that, and it also evoked emotions for these characters.

I started this series after Janine’s two very positive reviews of Everything I Left Unsaid and The Truth About Him; if I didn’t find the books quite as compelling as she did, they were interesting enough that I was eager to read the third book, Burn Down the Night, which Janine and I reviewed together. My enthusiasm going into the third book (and Janine’s as well, if I can speak for her) had a lot to do with the heroine, Joan, who had been a tough and enigmatic character in the first two books of the series. This time, Janine was slightly less enamored and particularly had issues with the way Joan’s character seemed to change in her own book. However, we both agreed that we were interested in the fourth book, which apparently would feature Tiffany and Blake. Tiffany was another tough character from the first two books that I wanted to know more about; Blake was an utter asshole but I was hoping he’d at least have to grovel at some point. (As Janine said in the Burn Down the Night review, “I hope to see Tiffany bring him to his knees”).

Wait for It opens with a scene that I believe first occurred in The Truth About Him, except now it’s from Blake’s perspective (instead of, I think, Annie’s – she’s the heroine of the first two books). He has come to the trailer park where Tiffany lives with her three young kids. He’s found out that Tiffany is (or claims to be) married to his ne’er-do-well brother Phil, and that the children are (supposedly) products of that marriage. Blake is skeptical, and has decided that the easiest way to control the situation and protect his mother is to pay Tiffany off. He offers her $10,000 to go away and stay away. Tiffany bargains him up to $20,000, and the deal is struck.

A year later, Tiffany interrupts a Christmas party at Annie and Dylan’s house, seeking help. Phil has found her – not for the first time since she’s left him – and trashed her apartment. She has her kids in the car and she’s scared and worn out. She’s decided to accept Annie’s previous offer of assistance; she wants to get a lawyer to permanently separate her from Phil and find a way to keep him away from her and the kids.

Unfortunately, Blake is at the party, and he and Tiffany clash immediately, before she even gets in the front door. When Blake realizes that Tiffany’s afraid of him, though, and that she is trying to protect her kids, his stance changes.

After anticipating with some dread how much of a jerk Blake was going to be in Wait for It, I found myself perversely disappointed by how quickly he folded. It’s perhaps similar to Janine’s issue with Joan in Burn Down the Night, though I think Joan maintained her toughness better in that book. Blake still has issues, but the bulk of distrust between Tiffany and him throughout the book is all on Tiffany’s side. I hadn’t expected that and wasn’t entirely happy about it.

Tiffany met and married Phil young, and didn’t really know what she was doing. She learned, and the last seven years have hardened her and made her fairly cynical, especially about men, especially about men with the last name Edwards. (Yes, his name is Blake Edwards. Am I the only one old enough to find that weird and startling?) She is just trying to get by and do the best she can by her kids, but Phil’s regular intrusions into their lives mean that chaos and fear are never far away.

Tiffany’s backstory was a little sketchy – she grew up at least upper-middle-class, from the sounds of it. She has disapproving parents who cut her off when she got involved with Phil, and a sister whom she’s reconnected with and who does provide her with some emotional support. I wouldn’t have minded a better understanding of just how Tiffany’s childhood was so unhappy – it seems like her father was the main villain and her mother more or less went along with her father (her mother does make some overtures in the course of the book, at least). But the specifics of her early life remain vague, and I think more detail would have illuminated how and why she ended up with a loser like Phil in the first place.

Blake also seems to have a lot of trauma in his past, but his issues are even less clear. He has a loving mother; his father appears to have been tough but present and not abusive. He has a sister with whom he has a good relationship, and then there’s Phil. Phil was apparently always a rotten apple and a lot of Blake’s life has been spent cleaning up Phil’s messes and trying to protect his family from Phil’s mistakes and misdeeds.

But if Tiffany’s angst can be sort of explained by a cold childhood and a really bad, abusive marriage, I really didn’t understand why Blake was so tortured. Because he had a crappy brother? Sure, that’s not great, but Blake is presented as so closed off that he’s been incapable of romantic relationships (he frequents prostitutes) and so angry that he regularly boxes with the goal of getting the shit beat out of him (somehow this makes him feel better, at least temporarily).

There’s just not enough in the story to justify the level of screwed-upness that Blake exhibits, so he ends of coming off to me as one of those tortured, brooding heroes that are tortured and brooding just because. I don’t like those heroes.

There’s not a lot of external story in Wait for It. There’s the hunt for Phil and the need to resolve the threat he presents. There’s the decision that Tiffany has to make about whether she wants Blake’s family (specifically, his mother Margaret) in her kids’ lives. There’s some minor conflict between Blake and Dylan, his business partner/friend and the hero of the first two books. (It mostly seems to boil down to the fact that Dylan, having had his HEA, is happy, and Blake can’t stand to be around happy people.)

But most of the story is the dance between Blake and Tiffany as they face their attraction to each other and try to decide what to do about it. (An aside: it’s at least a little skeevy that they are brother-and-sister-in-law, right? I mean, I didn’t care *that* much, but the book barely addresses it at all.) The focus on their relationship worked for me at times and didn’t at others. A lot of that just has to do with the sex and specifically the way the sex is written, which is a little…grubby for me? I don’t think of myself as someone who favors euphemistic, hearts-and-flowers sex scenes, but blowjobs on dirty boxing ring floors bring out the latent Howard-Hughesesque-germaphobe in me. Often I didn’t find the sex sexy (that’s true, to a greater or lesser degree, of the other books in the series, as well).

There are moments of insight into the characters that I liked, especially in the case of Tiffany. This resonated with me:

At school, while picking up the kids, I almost told the principal that the kids’ father was a psychopath and might very well be on the rampage after having just been served with a restraining order. I imagined the words coming out of my mouth and felt – somehow – nothing but responsibility and shame.

So I kept my mouth shut.

A moment like this makes Tiffany feel very real and relatable to me (even as I judge her slightly for putting her pride above her kids’ safety).

In the end, I wish Tiffany and particularly Blake had been more relatable overall, or that at least I could understand why they were so damn tortured all the time. As it was, the lack of motivation (again, mostly on Blake’s side, plus his abrupt about-face on Tiffany) brought the story down a notch for me. Wait for It gets a B-.

Loved loved this book! I had a hard time putting it down! This is my first book that I have read by this author and it definitely won’t be my last!

I voluntarily reviewed this book.

Wait For It is an exquisite journey of heart-stopping vulnerability and relentless love. This story is chock full of raw emotion and fierce love that will have you bleeding out and boneless in no time flat. Nothing about this story is easy, but that is makes it so much more worthwhile and powerful. It will wrap itself tightly around your heart until you are utterly lost within its pages. When love determines to have you for itself, you will never be able to run fast enough, hide well enough, or fight skillfully enough to keep it away. Surrendering to its bliss, its hope, and its joy is all that anyone can do in order to break the chains that hold you from feeling complete and happy.

Blake things he has complete control over his life, but he doesn’t understand why he feels like he is missing something. Anger at the unknown feeling has him spoiling for a good fight. His family does not know how to help him until something huge rocks his world. Tiffany watched helplessly as her life spiraled out of control. Her happiness became the stuff of legends, and all that consumed her was staying alive. When Tiffany accidentally runs into Blake after their terrible meeting years ago, the bad blood between them transforms into something else. Blake punches through Tiffany’s defenses and walks down a path that shakes him to his very core. These two must connect and work together if Tiffany and her kids have any hopes of a good future.

Blake and Tiffany are such an unlikely pair, and yet I see a small amount of respect that connected them from their initial meeting. From that small and slight connection, their bond was tenuous and yet it flourished even within a harsh environment of silly rules and self-preservation. That spoke volumes of the potency of their heart and the love for the other. They just needed to find common ground and good soil to allow what they had to grow properly. They are such a beautiful pair whose love, determination, and patience proved to be healing and life changing.

O’Keefe has created a very precious and extremely powerful story that is sure to touch the hearts and lies of a great many people. Words should never be taken lightly, and she is very precise in her delivery and offering of them. She wields them with love, compassion, and strength. Knowing how to crack us open and force us to face who are at our very core is a rare talent, and this author has it in spades. What a fantastic masterpiece and a wickedly creative author I have found within this pages! This book is a wonderful joy to behold and savor!

All the ‘feels’ goodness….

Have you ever had a story or a series blind-side you? That’s what I felt with this series. Intriguing covers and blurbs for sure but nothing screamed AMAZING right off the bat until… I opened the first cover and started to read. Everything changed. The characters, their words, their lives. Without saying a thing at times, they said volumes and made me feel so much. Picking up this last in the series was bittersweet but it was as incredible as I’d hoped…

Tiffany and Blake aren’t new to readers of Everything I Left Unsaid but I couldn’t have been alone waiting and wondering what would happen to them. One thing brought them together and it brought with it all the emotions and none of it was good… at first. Anger, pain, despair – emotions they both felt yet dealt with very differently. Blake was closed off, with money as his solution while Tiffany didn’t have the luxury of anything but doing the best by her kids. Their first meeting was the polar opposite of hearts and flowers so when they met again it wasn’t surprising trust was in short supply…

How many ways can I say ‘loved it’ without repeating myself? Though it bears repeating! From the opening page I was transformed into an entirely different world. A world of some of the worst things that real life can offer yet at the same time all of its hope as well. Tiffany and Blake were oil and water yet they would open up to each other in ways that no one else ever could. Heat and hope versus cynicism and reserve meant the back and forth was fierce yet the author balanced it just right.

The ending was amazingly tender and sweet. Too sweet, maybe, but it was everything I could have wanted for these characters that deserved so much…. In other words, perfect!

If you haven’t read this story, this series, do it! I know you will fall in love with the characters just like I did.

Ms. O'Keefe has crafted a great series with Everything Left Unsaid. I have to start with that. I guess Wait For It, is the book I could've have kept waiting for. The writing set up all the things I expected, but when I was looking for the connection between the characters, that chemistry that makes this difficult romance sing, it just didn't. It took me a long while to finish and in the end, I think it's a case of "it's not you book, it's me."

Emotionally raw after reading this book. Gripping and strong story proving money is not the solution to everything. Wait for It is a gritty, dark, smoking hot read that you should put on your TBR right now!
Gut-wrenching and heart breaking, Blake and Tiffany will be characters that will stay with you for a while once you are finished reading their story. Definitely a do not miss book.

Thank you for the opportunity to review this title. Unfortunately I didn't connect to this particular story and didn't continue. As I didn't finish, I won't be reviewing the title as we don't review DNF's on the blog. I've adored the previous works of this author and look forward to reading more titles from her.

Because the alternative - that this gorgeous, rich man was somehow attracted to me - was a fairy tale. And fairy tales were just shitty stories that no one really believed.

There's this long standing tradition in Romancelandia that readers like to call "glomming." (I'm going to credit this term to All About Romance because that's where I first heard it). Anyway, it's the practice of discovering a new author and then going on a merry chase to acquire backlist in order to go on a reading binge. I'm very good at acquiring the backlist thing. The reading a bunch of books by the same author in a row? Not so much. Call it fear of burnout. But, you see, I had a major book hangover after Burn Down the Night and frankly, Wait for It is the last book in this particular series by M. O'Keefe. So despite my trepidation over the hero (who I found to be a flaming a-hole in the previous books in the series) - I tucked in to start reading.

And finished the book in a matter of hours. I may need to go lay down for a bit after finishing this blog post...

Tiffany is 26-years-old, has three kids and an abusive husband who won't stay gone. She finally got the courage to leave him a year ago. Packed up the kids and moved to a dumpy apartment. But, naturally, Phil came sniffing back around, she called the cops, and things got ugly. Her and the kids scampered down the fire escape, got in the car, and went to her friend Annie's (see Everything I Left Unsaid and The Truth About Him). What she didn't plan on? That Annie and her husband would be throwing a Christmas party. Oh, and that her asshole brother-in-law, Blake Edwards, would be there.

A while back Blake found out about Tiffany. The entire family has cut Phil out of their lives, so the fact that the man had a wife he liked to beat up on and three kids he enjoyed terrorizing was unknown to them. Blake has spent his entire life cleaning up after Phil and something inside him breaks. He finds out about Tiffany and automatically assumes the worst. In one of the best scenes I've ever read in a romance novel, he pays her off to make her "go away." Blake is the kind of guy who used to have nothing and now has money - so to his way of thinking? Money solves everything and keeps life from getting emotionally "messy." Tiffany had stayed gone, until she literally had no other option.

This sets off a chain of events. Blake, in a moment of clarity, realizes that he may have been wrong about her. It probably helped when he saw her three kids in the back seat of her crappy Toyota. He knows all too well what his brother is capable of and he sees this as another mess. A problem to solve and make better. But it's very complicated. There's guilt, there's baggage, and then there's the fact that he likes Tiffany. He really likes her.

How big of an ass was Blake in the earlier books in the series? Let me put it this way - I found Max, the head of a criminal motorcycle club more sympathetic. That scene where Blake "pays off" Tiffany is enough to get your blood boiling. So I had reservations about him as a romance hero and naturally, O'Keefe makes it work. How? Well, it helps that he realizes early on that he was wrong and yet the author doesn't make the mistake of morphing him into a choir boy. He has a lot to answer for once he and Tiffany enter into a "relationship" and to be fair to Tiffany, she's so emotionally screwed up after Phil you can see how she's terrified on one hand and grabbing at anything resembling a brass ring with the other.

This is another hard romance about hard people. What keeps it all humming along is Tiffany, who despite years of abuse is never portrayed like a damsel in distress. By the time our girl gets her own romance she is ALL out of fucks (pardon my language). She is full up and has had enough. But she knows she can't do it alone. And loathe as she is to accept anything resembling help from Blake (who she doesn't trust, at all), she has no other choice. This is a man with money, connections - frankly he can get her a good lawyer. She NEEDS him, and she knows it. But that doesn't mean she's going to make it easy for him.

As much as I loved Burn Down the Night, I think I may have liked this one a teensy bit better. I found the trust issues and obstacles to the romance believable and heart-wrenching. I loved Tiffany's strength and fire. I loved that there was a good, decent guy inside Blake yearning to be set free. My only quibble is I felt like the ending (once Phil is dispatched with...) was a bit rushed. With all the baggage, I think I wanted to wallow around in the happy-ending a bit more. Oh, like 50 pages more. Plus, you know, it's the last book in the series. But this is me being a glutton.

I only had two A reads all of 2017, a fact that left me horribly depressed. I vowed to start 2018 off on the right foot and I knew that my Kindle held a treasure trove of possibilities. O'Keefe has delivered two and I'm not done with the glom just yet....

Final Grade = A

Fantastic!! LOVED this enemies to lovers story!! I could not get enough!! Enemies to lovers stories are one of my all-time favorite tropes and this one did not disappoint!! I adored Tiffany and Blake, loved their chemistry. The writing was very good! I highly recommend this book!

Loved, loved this book. Best I have read in some time! 5 huge stars

I love this author I have read all her books so far and I'm sad to say this is my least favorite.I don't know how to rate it.I find the story interesting but I couldn't connect with the characters and this one was a big part to my disappointment

After loving the first two books in this series and not caring much for the third one, I wasn't sure what to expect from Wait for It. I am thrilled to say that it was up to the standards set by the first two book in the Everything I Left Unsaid Series.

Tiffany didn't seem like a great person to me in the prior books, but I quickly came to like her very much in this one. She was trying to be a good mom and she was dealt a very raw hand. When her brother-in-law Blake came into the picture, I didn't blame her for being very leery of him. Her ex and his neglect to mention his family or tell them about Tiffany and the children was awful!

I liked Blake and Tiffany and thought they were very good for each other. Their story was interesting and their romance was a good and touching one.

This one was a winner for me!

Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. Wait for It by M. O'Keefe is more than I expected for Tiffany and Blake's book. It was going to be a hard journey. Tiffany and Blake both have their hangups. But when Blake decides she is what he wants, he'll stop at nothing. It's an amazing and intense journey packed with passionate moments and heartwarming scenes!

Hot! Hot! Hot!
"Wait For It" is the 4th novel in Molly O'Keefe's "Everything I Left Unsaid" series.

Their lives a mess Tiffany and Blake are damaged by the same person - Tiffany's husband and Blake's brother Phil. Both are hurting and have boxed themselves in to prevent more hurt. They travel a long road , both individually and together, setting aside boundaries and limitations in order to find peace and love.

Ms. O'Keefe's storytelling keeps the reader enraptured in the characters' lives. A sexy novel full of raw emotion and desire.

This is a series I could read over and over again!

Thank you to Net Galley, Molly O'Keefe and Loveswept for an arc of this novel.