Diana, Josh and Louie have just moved to a new neighbourhood. While settling in is always hard, changing work locations at the same time is even harder. On top of that, keeping ten and five-year-old boys occupied is a never-ending job especially when there are sports involved. Josh, the ten-year-old is a baseball player and he’s pretty good too. Diana is busy and hasn’t had an opportunity to find him a new team to play with. It just so happens that after an extremely weird situation happens, she comes face to face with the coach for the local team. I don't know if I was just expecting another Winnipeg, thus leaving this book feeling like less in comparison, or what. Only thing cover model about Dallas was his resting bitch face that was too aggressive to be on the cover of anything other than a survival guide magazine."

she wouldn’t be my first, but she’d be the only one who ever mattered. i think she could wait for the time to be right, i’d make sure she never regretted it.” I’m glued to this book and have dropped the other ones I was reading till I’m done with this one. So far I highly recommend it to anyone who liked Kulti or WoW or who appreciates slow burn and well-written characters with integrity. Do we have fleas?” I gave him his flea medication on the same day every month. Dallas sat up and pinched his lips together, and somehow managed to say calmly, “No. You have l-i-c-e.” “L-i-c-e?” Josh muttered the letters under his breath. “Li-cee?” That was Louie. I still had a hand on my head as I wrinkled my nose. “What—Oh my God. No!” i would space out a lot during the inner monologues, but i got used to it since it’s a reoccurring factor in mz’s books, but i didn’t even care abt it bc i just love this book sm!! i was fr reading this book slowly just to savour it all, i didnt want it to end 😭

Nothing before the age of twenty-six could have prepared me for raising two boys. Really. There wasn’t a single thing.

All right, I just wanted to say a friendly ‘hello.’ I’ll see you later, neighbor.” I finished in one breath, regretting making the decision to come over more than I had regretted anything in recent history. That had me sitting up straight. Lou had an active imagination, but not that active. He’d spared us from having imaginary friends, but he hadn’t saved me from pretending the toilet was a birdbath and he was a parrot when he was three. You shouldn’t sell yourself short. There’re some people who you’ll never make happy no matter what you do.” If only the singer of the headlining band didn’t have tattoos… a great personality… a fantastic body… and if he wasn’t so funny…. Maryse: So I’m reading “Wait For It” and I gotta say… the build-up and slow burn of it is pretty much… perfection. THIS is what I’m talking about when I say I want to have to work for it, and I LOVE that I’m only in HER head and I have NO clue what he’s thinking. AND I LOVE that he’s so BELIEVABLY brooding and stand-offish and there are no innuendos from his part.Wait for It may not be the second The Wall of Winnipeg and Me, but it still captured a big part of my heart. A small-fingered hand landed on my leg over the sheets. “I can’t sleep,” the little boy admitted, still whispering like he was trying not to wake me up even more than he already had by scaring the Holy Spirit and a couple drops of pee out of me. The darkness in the room hid Louie’s blond hair and those blue eyes that still made my heart ache every so often. “There’s alotta noise outside. Can I sleep with you?”

Collective Favorite Quote: “Either I was dying inside or this was what a serial killer felt like when he or she needed to get another fix.” I know Zapata does the slow burn and that is great but I need a spark of something from both not just one side to feel like a romance. Diana Casillas went from awesome aunt to single mom almost overnight. She loves her nephews more than anything and would do anything for them, but the transition has not been easy for her. It’s been two years though, and she finally feels settled to some extent. She bought a home and has a good job. And now she has new neighbors… one of them being Dallas Walker. small note - if you've read mariana's books kulti and the wall of winnipeg and me, you will recognise diana as sal's cousin and vanessa's best friend. both of them even make small appearances in this book. 🫶🏼i dont uNdErStAnD parents or parental figures in books who feel the need to teach their kids compassion and encourage them to help others in need..... but then proceed to walk into a 🔥burning building🔥 to rescue a KITTEN and risk having their kids be parent-less. i mean, i’ve never had a pet, so i cant really relate to it to begin with, but— Or pretty close to screaming, considering I was still getting over a cold I’d caught from Josh two weeks ago that had left me sounding like a chain-smoker going through puberty. I have a favorite that was emotional and beautiful, but don't want to spoil it. There are so many Fantastic moments, all heartfelt and showcases parenthood, relationships, friendships, and starting over in a masterful and real way. Sometimes I felt like a traitor for how much I loved them. Like I shouldn’t, because they weren’t supposed to be mine to begin with. Like I shouldn’t think they made my life better when the only reason they were mine, lighting my life up, was because of something awful.