I'll Be Waiting for You
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
★ "By turns funny, heartbreaking, and beautiful, [I'll Be Waiting for You] deftly handles the complexities of grief, the possibilities of the universe, and the power of belief." – Booklist, starred review
Perfect for fans of the tearjerker You've Reached Sam, this emotional will-they-won't-they romance follows Natalie and Leander, two teens who navigate love, loss, and everything in between during a fateful summer internship.
Natalie and Imogen are inseparable, and wildly different—Imogen is infuriatingly humble and incredibly intelligent, while Natalie is brave, jumping into danger and new adventures. Still, one thing ties them together: their love of the supernatural. Every summer, they vacation with their parents at the famously haunted Harlow Hotel. Imogen is a true believer, while Natalie sees ghost stories as nothing but pure fun.
Then, Imogen suddenly passes away from an undiagnosed heart condition that no one saw coming, and Natalie is left to take on the summer before senior year alone.
Without Imogen, Natalie throws herself into her senior project. Her passion is still horror, so she plans to spend her summer back at The Harlow Hotel recording fun fake footage that will get her on the teen ghost hunting show of her dreams. And her plans would be a lot less complicated if Leander, her irritatingly attractive arch rival from school, wasn’t working on his senior project at the very same hotel.
The longer Natalie stays at the Harlow Hotel, the more she realizes that Leander might be helpful for her project. After all, she could use an extra hand to help record her fake footage.
But, when strange things start happening at the Harlow, Natalie wonders, could there really be something to these ghosts after all?
Readers of Emily X.R. Pan, Nina LaCour, and Dustin Thao will fall for this story that explores what it means to believe—in ghosts, in the people you love, and in yourself.
★ "Told via Natalie’s witty and organic first-person voice, this exhilarating novel is many things: an homage to a lost friend, a spine-tingling ghost tale, and a sweet, budding love story." – Publishers Weekly, starred review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Turk (The Other Side of Perfect) explores grief, friendship, and spiritualism in this stunning summertime genre-bender. Japanese American Natalie Nakada and her best friend Imogen have a yearly tradition of hiking, sleeping in rented cabins, and skulking around the notoriously haunted Harlow Hotel in Estes Park, Colo., with their families. After Imogen dies in her sleep from an undiagnosed heart condition during one of their trips, Natalie works to process her grief. She finally feels ready to tackle her internship at the Harlow Hotel, where she'll complete her senior project filming an audition tape for her favorite ghost-hunting TV series, but her plan goes awry when she encounters fellow intern Leander, the writer of her school's "Truth Hurts" newspaper column and known condescending buzzkill. Forced to collaborate on their respective projects, Natalie begins seeing Leander in a new light, especially when she learns he's a fellow skeptic. As the two work to debunk the many mysteries of the Harlow Hotel, unexplained glimpses of Imogen haunt Natalie. Told via Natalie's witty and organic first-person voice, this exhilarating novel is many things: an homage to a lost friend, a spine-tingling ghost tale, and a sweet, budding love story. Ages 12–up.
