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A review by sarahv
What You Wish for by Katherine Center
emotional
hopeful
relaxing
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
I enjoy the writing style of Katherine Center. I liked the main character and the friends and town. I did find her description of the absurd outfits she was wearing a little distracting. However, I did not like the love interest very much. He is recovering from trauma as a teacher during a school shooting. The first day as the principal of the new school, he shoots off a fake gun in the building. He spends the rest of the book squashing all joy and treating the children and teachers like prisoners. He comes around in the end, but I found it hard to like him after that.
Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, and Mass/school shootings
Moderate: Death and Grief
A past school shooting is one of the central plots of this book. At the very beginning of the book, someone dies unexpectedly of a stroke and the rest of the book the main character is dealing with grief.