Book Review: Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey

“My Tom Hanks is out there, and I’m not going to settle until I find him.”

Annie is 27 years old, single and obsessed with romantic comedies. All her expectations for what a healthy relationship entails are from these movies. She can quote them, she watches them incessantly and she’s determined to meet the movie perfect man. And what better way to look for her real life Tom Hanks, than to work on a movie that your uncle pulls strings for you to be the director’s new assistant. And on her first day at set, she meets Drew, the star of this rom-com that is being filmed.

Honestly, I didn’t want to review this book because I don’t think I can be diplomatic about how I really felt about it. I thought this was going to be a fun read but the heroine was absolutely horrible. I could not stand her. I thought it was going to be a cute story about a girl working on a movie set and falling in love with the star of the movie. The premise had everything I love in a romantic comedy – rich heroes, rich heroes, rich heroes. But it was absolutely disappointing and just plain not good. The main character, Annie, is absolutely insufferable, childish and a little delusional.

Let’s talk about Annie, shall we? Being in Anne’s mind was a terrible experience. She was the absolute worst. It’s one thing to want a romantic comedy kind of love, who doesn’t? But Annie wanted a man who owns a houseboat because Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle had a boathouse. Annie dated a minor character in the book because he had a son and Tom Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle had a son. That’s how absolutely crazy our main female character is. She was crazy judgmental, she judged the main male character based on gossip site articles, even though everyone knows those are hardly true. She never dated but believed that the love of her life would just fall into her lap!

The couple had absolutely no chemistry. Honestly, I should have DNFed this book. I do not know why I continued. There was no redeeming quality that I can tell you about. The only good thing I liked about this book is that it made me re-watch “You’ve Got Mail” and it’s still so good. You know what you should do instead of reading this book? Watch “You’ve Got Mail” again. I do not recommend this book and it’s currently on the top of my list of the worst books I’ve read this year. I gave this one star on my Goodreads.

Leggy.