Waiting Games (An Avon Flare Book) [Paperback]

Bruce Hart (Author), Carole Hart (Author)

Book Description

Series: An Avon Flare Book | Publication Date: November 1981

Fourteen-year-old Jessie becomes romantically and sexually involved with her eighteen-year-old guitar teacher Michael.

Product Details

• Paperback: 311 pages
• Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) (November 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380790122
• ISBN-13: 978-0380790128
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #696,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Teenage Angst, March 23, 2000

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Amanda Smith (Connecticut) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waiting Games (An Avon Flare Book) (Paperback)

Waiting Games is a sequel to the popular book Sooner Or Later. I first read both books when I was 14, and re-read them until they were tattered. Jessie's struggle with first love is both funny and touching. The author's insight into the mind of a teenager, who is both worldly and childlike, is magical.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I read this book when I was 15..., October 5, 2002

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Allen T. Sasser "Englishleigh" (Alabama) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waiting Games (An Avon Flare Book) (Paperback)

..because it was the sequel to "Sooner or Later", which was an awesome little movie and book. In this sequel, Jessie and Michael consummate their relationship and then Michael leaves to go on tour...leaving Jessie worried about being pregnant for the remainder of the book. I kind of found it disturbing because Jessie is only 14 in the book, and you start to see that Michael is not the Prince Charming as portrayed in "Sooner or Later"...the story is very real and interesting and I would recommend it, however.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars still WAITING for a happy ending, September 16, 2007

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Kristi A. Goodyear "kittikatkristi" (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waiting Games (An Avon Flare Book) (Paperback)

For fans of the book and movie Sooner or Later, this may be a letdown. I just could NOT see Michael and Jess in these characters. Nor could I see Jessie's parents or Grandma. I get the lesson here. Your first love and lover may not withstand the test of time. But there are other novels that tell that story extremely well, such as Forever by Judy Blume. As a pre-teen, I LOVED the movie and Rex Smith, this was not the happy ending that you hope for. I still LOVE the movie and Rex. I know that life doesn't always have happy endings, believe me I do. But I think a lot of fans of Sooner or Later will wish that it had ended better. I'm waiting for Now or Never, and will read it with an open mind. I think that the book is very good, but not for those hardcore Sooner or Later fans. I had to watch the DVD, just to get the bad taste out of my mouth.