So I'm going to need this to be a series so I can know more!!!

I love stories about fated souls and Waiting For April had me interested at the first line of the summary. I actually stumbled across this book in my Facebook feed and am glad I did – I enjoyed this book and sincerely hope there is more to come.

April Fletcher thinks she is just a normal teenager who has a wonderful boyfriend, a great best friend, and clear plans for her future. Little does she know that she has died nineteen times before her 18th birthday and her best friend, Scott is a boy she has known since the first time she died in 1729. The mystery tied into the story is how April continues to die and why it has created an impact on Scott’s existence.

Scott Parker continues to struggle to find out what is really going on with April and why he is locked in an existence where he is invincible until the moment she tells him she loves him. Once that happens, April is yanked away from him somehow and his life freezes until she comes back into his life for the next time around.

In this iteration of their lives, Scott and April are best friends but when they go to a cabin for a weekend trip with their respective boyfriend/girlfriend, Scott ends up sharing the details of their lives with April. While April struggles with the details, the relationship between Scott and April changes and they come to realize they need to find out what is really going on and why it is happening to them.

I have to admit, at first I wasn’t a huge fan of April as a character. For some reason, she drove me a bit crazy – it may have been because of her initial reaction to Scott telling her about his feelings for her…I’m not sure but she did grow on me as the story progressed. Scott was swoony and lovely…I thought the way Loren portrayed him was perfect and he was so wonderfully supportive of everything April wanted – even if he thought it wouldn’t include him.

I can’t really say much about the mystery behind the overall story as I don’t want to give anything away. There were some twists to this story that were completely unexpected and I couldn’t stop reading because I needed to know what was going to happen for these two. The end of this book was brutal (in a good way…) and I can’t wait to get my hands on the next book – I know it isn’t listed as a series but I did see that Jaime Loren indicated this would be a trilogy…which has made me SUPER excited!

If you are looking for an intriguing story with some well-developed characters definitely check this one out. I will say, Loren knows how to write some swoon and angst…both things that make a wonderful story. Get this one when you can!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the review copy!