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.