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A review by lesbrary
How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake
5.0
Here's an embarrassing admission: I have only heard amazing things about this book, but I have been reluctant to pick it up because I don't like the cover. That's completely silly, but there it is!
This was just as good as everyone says it is. I loved Grace as a character. She is in an awful situation (she acts more like a parent to her mother than the other way around), and she feels it. Sometimes she gets frustrated or angry and lashes out in ways that are very believable. But she is also loving and caring and wants to reach out, even as she feels that making connections is meaningless, that she is trapped in this situation. There are a lot of complex emotions playing out among all the characters, and there's a lot of nuance in how they play out. My only annoyance was that I thought Jay got off the hook too easily for what he did to Grace, but what he did was unforgivable, in my opinion.
This was just as good as everyone says it is. I loved Grace as a character. She is in an awful situation (she acts more like a parent to her mother than the other way around), and she feels it. Sometimes she gets frustrated or angry and lashes out in ways that are very believable. But she is also loving and caring and wants to reach out, even as she feels that making connections is meaningless, that she is trapped in this situation. There are a lot of complex emotions playing out among all the characters, and there's a lot of nuance in how they play out. My only annoyance was that I thought Jay got off the hook too easily for what he did to Grace, but what he did was unforgivable, in my opinion.