{"id":2036,"date":"2018-02-26T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2018-03-03T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T06:49:52","slug":"review-worth-waiting-wendy-qualls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/26\/review-worth-waiting-wendy-qualls\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Worth Waiting For &#8211; Wendy Qualls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bookreview\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/33553329.jpg?w=1280\" alt=\"Review: Worth Waiting For &#8211; Wendy Qualls\" title=\"Review: Worth Waiting For &#8211; Wendy Qualls\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignright\"><strong>Worth Waiting For<\/strong><br>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/authors\/wendy-qualls\/\">Wendy Qualls<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/series\/heart-of-the-south\/\">Heart of the South #1<\/a> <br><strong>Also in this series:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/27\/review-worth-searching-wendy-qualls\/\">Worth Searching For<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/08\/18\/review-worth-fighting-for-wendy-qualls\/\">Worth Fighting For<\/a> <br><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/publishers\/lyrical-shine\/\">Lyrical Shine<\/a> <br><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> August 15, 2017 <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/genres\/romance\/\">Romance<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 304 <br><strong>Reading Challenges:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reading-challenges\/2018-romance-roundabout-challenge\/\">2018 Romance Roundabout Challenge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reading-challenges\/january-march-2018-quarterly-challenge\/\">January - March 2018 Quarterly Challenge<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reading-challenges\/title-hunt-quarterly-challenge-january-march-2018\/\">Title Hunt Quarterly Challenge: January - March 2018<\/a> <br><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/sources\/purchased\/\">Purchased<\/a> <br><br>My rating: <span class=\"ubb-buy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40\" alt=\"One Star\"><\/span><br><br><br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p>A small-town in the Deep South isn\u2019t where most gay men would choose to go looking for love. But open hearts will find a way\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in the Bible Belt, Paul Dunham learned from a young age to hide his sexuality. Now he\u2019s teaching psychology at a conservative college in Georgia\u2014and still hiding who he really is. If Paul hopes to get tenure, he needs to keep his desires on the down-low. But when an old college crush shows up on campus\u2014looking more gorgeous than ever\u2014Paul\u2019s long-suppressed urges are just too big for one little closet to hold . . .<\/p>\n<p> Brandon Mercer has come a long way since his freshman year fumbling's with Paul. Now he\u2019s confident, accomplished, proudly out\u2014and the sexiest IT consultant Paul\u2019s ever seen. When Brandon asks Paul to grab some coffee and catch up, it leads to a steamy reunion that puts their first night of passion to shame. But when Paul\u2019s longtime crush turns into a full-time romance, he receives an anonymous email threatening to expose their secret to the world. 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Yet if he caves under pressure, he risks losing the one true love he\u2019s been<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><center><span class=\"ubb-buy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01MYYODHM\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amazon.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Amazon\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/worth-waiting-for\/id1187681209?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/apple.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Apple\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/worth-waiting-for-wendy-qualls\/1125314502;jsessionid=D24D0C2F659A3D51D206645D5BAA6FDD.prodny_store02-atgap09?ean=9781516102051\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bn.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Barnes & Noble\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/worth-waiting-for-12\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kobo.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Kobo\"><\/a><\/span><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/33553329-worth-waiting-for\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/widget_logo.gif?w=1280\" alt=\"Goodreads\"><\/a><br><\/center><center><p class=\"ubb-buy\"><div class=\"ubb-icon-tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/4stars\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0003_4-stars.png?fit=80%2C100\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"4 stars icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/contemporary\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0007_contemporary.png?fit=140%2C100\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"contemporary icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/m-m\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"102\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/categories_0000s_0005_m_m.png?fit=80%2C102\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"categories_m_m\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/romance\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"82\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0017_romance.png?fit=82%2C100\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"romance icon\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/center><br>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2018-02-26T19:48:07+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"\\r\\n\\r\\nContent warning: homophobia (religiously motivated)\\r\\n\\r\\nWow, this was an angsty, all-the-feels read! \\u00a0I cried angry tears, sad tears, and happy tears, all in the course of 300 pages!\\r\\n\\r\\n\\u201cHo\",\n\t\"publisher\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Organization\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Llama Reads Books\"\t},\n\t\"url\": \"http:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/index.php\\\/2018\\\/02\\\/26\\\/review-worth-waiting-wendy-qualls\\\/\",\n\t\"itemReviewed\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Book\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"Worth Waiting For\",\n\t\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\t\"name\": \"Wendy Qualls\",\n\t\t\t\"sameAs\": \"\"\t\t},\n\t\t\"isbn\": \"\"\t},\n\t\"author\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Person\",\n\t\t\"name\": \"ReadingLlama\",\n\t\t\"sameAs\": \"http:\\\/\\\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\\\/blog\\\/\"\t},\n\t\"reviewRating\": {\n\t\t\"@type\": \"Rating\",\n\t\t\"ratingValue\": 4,\n\t\t\"bestRating\": \"5\"\n\t}\n}\n\n\n\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<hr \/>\n<p>Content warning: homophobia (religiously motivated)<\/p>\n<p>Wow, this was an angsty, all-the-feels read! \u00a0I cried angry tears, sad tears, and happy tears, all in the course of 300 pages!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201cHow did you \u2026\u201d Brandon seemed to be picking his words carefully. \u201cHow was it for you? Staying?\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t anything, really.\u201d Confusing and frustrating, but that was nothing new. \u201cI just went back to not doing that. Nobody thought anything of it. Plenty of students here don\u2019t really date.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Paul is securely in the closet. \u00a0While he doesn\u2019t go out of the way to appear straight, he\u2019s on the tenure track at St. Bernard\u2019s, the same conservative Christian college he attended, and while they don&#8217;t require a statement of faith for the faculty, they also wouldn\u2019t look kindly on an openly gay professor. \u00a0Brandon, on the other hand, is out of the closet and has spent a lot of time on the gay scene, but his romantic life has been a series of anonymous one night stands. \u00a0So Paul has that on him, at least, as he had a relationship with a guy for over a year, even though he was controlling and kept trying to push him out of his confront zone sexually. \u00a0Ten years ago, when they were both freshmen, they had a one night stand in the dorms before break, and shortly after Brandon transferred to another school, while Paul stayed. \u00a0When they meet again as part of a college IT project, it&#8217;s immediately obvious the attraction is still there. \u00a0While Brandon understands why Paul is still in the closet &#8211; he was terrified of coming out to his supportive family, so he can imagine how Paul feels &#8211; he&#8217;s still interested in a no-strings casual fling while he&#8217;s working with the college.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201cMy parents are pretty conservative\u2014not as strict as some, I wasn\u2019t homeschooled or anything, but they always did see the world in black and white. Still do. Even if I never told them why I wanted to transfer, I would have still had to wrestle with the idea that I was giving in to this compulsion for sin inside me. As long as I stayed at St. Benedict\u2019s, as long as I kept all my lustful thoughts to myself and tried very hard to pray myself straight, I wasn\u2019t a failure yet.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It\u2019s the south &#8211; where one of the first questions people ask when they meet you is where you go to church &#8211; and one of the things that haunts Paul is reconciling being a \u201cgood Christian\u201d with being gay. \u00a0His family is quite conservative, and his POV is loaded with comments about bible studies, praying, and going to church on Sundays. \u00a0His twin sister, the person he&#8217;s probably closest to in the world, had a bad reaction to him coming out to her, and his parents would not react well at all to it. \u00a0While this may be off-putting for a secular reader, it&#8217;s just the normal cultural Southern Christian trappings, no Bible verses or &#8220;Jesus saves!&#8221; type content included. \u00a0 On a weekend trip to Atlanta, Brandon takes him to his gay-friendly church, and this is when I think I finally really fell in love with the two as a couple. \u00a0I think it&#8217;s hard for people who aren&#8217;t coming from the Southern Christian perspective to realize how much it permeates everyday life, and to realize what a horrifyingly soul-crushing burden it&#8217;s been to Paul, to the point where he&#8217;s basically tried to &#8220;pray himself straight&#8221; multiple times.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201cI don\u2019t mind if tonight becomes your dirty little secret. I kind of expected that when I asked. I\u2019m not going to go bragging about what you taste like or how you are in bed, and I wouldn\u2019t know anyone here to tell even if I wanted to. But I\u2019m not going to be the focus of some Jesus-hates-me meltdown where you can paint me as some rainbow Typhoid Mary spreading gay cooties in my wake. If you want this, you\u2019ve got to own it. I\u2019d rather sit alone in my hotel room than be some big ongoing source of guilt for you to rail against. You want me? Then say it.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The tension was lovely and the sex was hot! \u00a0Despite his relationship, Paul is pretty inexperienced and, in some ways, prejudiced, and watching him break out of his shell was lovely. \u00a0It did feel a bit like a gay sex bucket list, but it fit in the overall relationship, so I wasn&#8217;t too bothered by it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\u201cWe\u2019re just going to have to solve this the old-fashioned way.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Brandon grinned. \u201cCopious amounts of data-tracking, electronic manipulation, cyber-spying, and you and me sleeping together whenever the opportunity presents itself.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While I enjoyed the development of their relationship, I found the plot behind why Brandon was at the college predictable, and, honestly, not very interesting. \u00a0It also seemed a bit much that Paul, who&#8217;s been pretending to be straight for his entire life, would feel comfortable walking around Atlanta with Brandon while openly holding his hand and indulging in other light PDA.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Overall, despite needing a box of tissues, I enjoyed this book immensely!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Reading this book contributed to these challenges:<\/p><ul class=\"ubb-contributed-challenges\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reading-challenges\/2018-romance-roundabout-challenge\/\">2018 Romance Roundabout Challenge<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reading-challenges\/january-march-2018-quarterly-challenge\/\">January - March 2018 Quarterly Challenge<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reading-challenges\/title-hunt-quarterly-challenge-january-march-2018\/\">Title Hunt Quarterly Challenge: January - March 2018<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content warning: homophobia (religiously motivated) Wow, this was an angsty, all-the-feels read! \u00a0I cried angry tears, sad tears, and happy tears, all in the course of 300 pages! \u201cHow did you \u2026\u201d Brandon seemed to be picking his words carefully. \u201cHow was it for you? 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