Black Love in All its Glory: Waiting On Wendy Book Review

I’ll admit, I’m a sucker for sweet love stories and this one hit the spot.

Right off the bat we meet Wendy who is experiencing life in all its craziness. Her mother, who was her rock, has recently passed away, she has dropped out of school and she’s working at her uncle’s diner. Wendy is also suffering from anxiety, let’s face it, sis is going through it. Yet, she wakes up every morning, puts on a smile, and gives her best to her customers. 

Then one day Kellen walks into her diner, takes a seat, and just sits there. Seeing that he’s also going through something Wendy is kind and offers a word of encouragement because if anyone knows how life tends to life sometimes it’s her. 

Kellen, feels a spark in that moment and continues to come back every day, and Wendy knowing she’s not in a good place says, no thanks you’re cute and all but you have your life together and I don’t so I’m going to have to decline. And what does he do? He waits for her to get her life in order. 

This! 

Finding love is hard, but finding love at the worst time in your life, well that’s something different. As the story develops we find out that although Wendy isn’t ready, Kellen too is hiding a big secret and he shouldn’t be wasting his time trying to win over Wendy. 

This book was so good. It was so beautiful reading about their love story, the flow of the book, and the pacing were spot on and I loved every moment of it. The book was short and I read it in one sitting. It was told predominantly through Wendy’s point of view and I think that was a great choice because we got to feel and understand her story. 

Here are some of the lines I loved. 

• “You look really pretty today, Wendy.” “I look the same as I always look, Kellen.” “That doesn’t make it any less true.”
• “I realized that it didn’t matter how kindly you said something that was fucked up. It was still fucked up!
• “My mom used to say that shared pain is halved and shared joy is doubled.”
• “There’s no way that this is the first time I’ve loved you, Wendy. It happened too fast. It’s weird like… like I already knew how it felt. I remembered and then my heart just automatically did it again.”
• “I must’ve really turned your world upside down when I came in it, but sometimes it feels like I didn’t even have a world until I met you. I was alive, but I wasn’t really living until you gave me a reason to.”

Let me know if you pick this one up and what you think.