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The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

80 reviews

abbyjme's review

hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

Going into this book, I felt the first few chapters real little slow, but it was all worth it for the way that I fell in love with all of the main characters. I truly admired how the story explored parenting and how the effects of our upbringing last a lifetime. Not even just parenting, but how literature can raise a child. 

I saw the review VE Schwab left for this book and I could agree more “ Clever,dark, and hopeful—a love letter to reading, and the power that childhood stories have over as long after we’ve grown up”

I’m not gonna spoil anything but let’s just say I was happy scream crying while reading the last few chapters.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, and Abortion

kencil's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use

ceruleanblue42's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Abandonment

Minor: Drug abuse

chronologically_charlie's review

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

So many freakin' things that I disliked about this. 
A really slow start. Really weird character relationships. Like...really weird. And I like weird! But this was weird. A really slow and predictable plot. The writing felt flat. I just ugh...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Miscarriage

Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, and Pedophilia

kpflea's review

adventurous emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

LOVED this book. Emotional, heart-pounding, romantic, exciting; there are not enough words in my dictionary to describe the feelings this book gave me. MUST READ!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage

notbrhymes's review

emotional hopeful

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I cried my way through this book.
What a beautiful, beautiful story brimming with love and whimsy and so much humanity. My heart was broken and repaired multiple times throughout this novel and I think it is such a feat when an author can accomplish that while also having an otherwise interesting story. 
I read this in one sitting and I couldn’t be happier that I decided to ignore the other books that I had due back to the library much sooner & I picked this one up instead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer

kiragreads's review

emotional hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

mollywill's review

adventurous hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Abandonment

Moderate: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, and Medical trauma

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual violence

knightylight's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Minor: Homophobia and Pedophilia

This book feels like a coming of age movie- but if coming of age happened when you were 26+- mixed with the feeling of watching a Hallmark Christmas Movie. There's a lot of heavy themes here, but there's also a lot of heart and fun moments too. A lot of these characters have been through a lot of terrible things- sadly not anything unusual in our day and age. But despite all of it, it's definitely a story about hope, and "finding your village" as the story puts it. This book is a good contemporary fiction for those wanting to be reminded of the importance of community and making wild wishes

katherina_lei's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

This was one of my favorite books I've read in a while. It was interesting, sweet, and overall just a feel good book. The little puzzles reminded me a bit of "The Westing Game" at first, but it diverged into less of a puzzle or mystery fairly early on. The one thing I didn't like about this book was that the way that Lucy's desire to adopt Christopher was portrayed. It came off as obsessive, and it kind of gave me the ick, despite the fact that it was (I think) supposed to be a sweet parent/child relationship. I didn't love that Lucy was convinced she could never be happy until she was a mother, and kind of wallowed there for the majority of the book. Overall, and despite that, I really loved this book and would highly recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Miscarriage