This book was wacky as hell! I enjoyed Viva and Bobby. Such a strange and interesting pair. Viva is a Polish immigrant decides to start anew in Los Angeles. Bobby sees Viva hitchhiking on the freeway and rescues her from impending doom. The two become entangled and start breaking the law. This book is a fun summer read, but it's not very memorable. The writing is solid, but I did have some problems with the dialogue. It felt disjointed and a little lackluster. Decent novel but it's not an all-time favorite. If you want something breezy and silly, then you might enjoy this!

Thank you, Netgalley and Riverhead for the digital ARC.

Absurdly wonderful and full of the most delightfully insufferable characters. I was rooting for Viva the whole way through and this will stick with me for quite a while.

Absolutely crazy tale! A young immigrant from Poland picks up a wealthy looking hitchhiker and changes her luck - the question is, was it for the better of the worst! Viva is enamored with Bobby and her lifestyle and quickly agrees to work as her assistant - ignoring the multiple read flags. Before she knows it, Viva is wrapped up tightly in a scam to steal a Vermeer and is suddenly on the run.
This rollar coaster of a book will keep you guessing and the pages will fly by!
#penguingroup #riverhead #theladywaiting #magdalenazyzak

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of The Lady Waiting.

The premise sounds intriguing but this didn't meet my expectations at all.

This is definitely a case of me not being the ideal audience for a narrative like this.

It's not a thriller or a suspense driven novel so much as a young woman named Vive caught up in the throes of a charismatic, mysterious couple.

Vive eventually becomes the trois in their menage a trois and the trio go gallivanting across the continent to obtain a stolen masterpiece.

But, that's not the heart of the plot, as the narrative is centered on the complicated romance between Vive and Bobby and Bobby's husband.

There's plenty of sex, and rambling discourses on relationships, politics, feminism, so if you like narratives that really don't have a plot but just random people who eat, drink and sleep with whoever they want (and seem to have plenty of money to do all of those things) then this is the book for you.

It wasn't the book for me.

The writing was pretty good.