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A review by katiecatbooks
How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake
5.0
New adult. Bisexuality. Unstable family.
Story: Soon to be high school senior Grace returns home from a summer music school, when her mom announced that while she was away at the school, they moved. Grace's mom is unstable, hopping from boyfriend to boyfriend, new house to new house, and they always end up bad. When Grace meets Eva, a new girl in town, they form a friendship with their torn apart families as a foundation. As the friendship develops further, Grace and Eva must make life changing decisions.
Language : Told in first person from Grace's pov. Set in a small cape town in Maine during a summer. There is one new adult scene but it's more suggestive than explicit, so this book is borderline upper YA / new adult. This book contains strong language and adult situations including alcohol.
Characters: Grace is an almost senior girl who has had to act like an adult most of her life, taking care of her mother and even working to be able to pay their bills. Other characters include her mother, her best friend Luca , Luca's mother and the new girl Eva.
I really liked this book. I liked it for many reasons it was not - not preachy, not dramatic, not easy, not magical answers. While this book includes bisexuality, it also includes a lot of question marks, life situations where life is unfair and sometimes the hard way out is the only option, and a naturally forming friendship.
Story: Soon to be high school senior Grace returns home from a summer music school, when her mom announced that while she was away at the school, they moved. Grace's mom is unstable, hopping from boyfriend to boyfriend, new house to new house, and they always end up bad. When Grace meets Eva, a new girl in town, they form a friendship with their torn apart families as a foundation. As the friendship develops further, Grace and Eva must make life changing decisions.
Language : Told in first person from Grace's pov. Set in a small cape town in Maine during a summer. There is one new adult scene but it's more suggestive than explicit, so this book is borderline upper YA / new adult. This book contains strong language and adult situations including alcohol.
Characters: Grace is an almost senior girl who has had to act like an adult most of her life, taking care of her mother and even working to be able to pay their bills. Other characters include her mother, her best friend Luca , Luca's mother and the new girl Eva.
I really liked this book. I liked it for many reasons it was not - not preachy, not dramatic, not easy, not magical answers. While this book includes bisexuality, it also includes a lot of question marks, life situations where life is unfair and sometimes the hard way out is the only option, and a naturally forming friendship.