A review by mmardybum
The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury

3.0

3.5

When I started this I kept thinking this is it - it's been a while now, but this is going to be 5 stars. I was so happy. I really needed a good book, the one you start and can't stop until you're done with it because it's just too good.

And The Forbidden Wish was all of the above. I loved Aladdin, my sassy Arabian son.
Spoilerinsert here me and my brother singing: "Arabiaaaaan nights, like Arabian daaaaays"
I was rooting for Zahra, I was shipping so hard, but above all I was having so much fun.

And then Aladdin fell in love. And apparently when you fall in love you lose your personality and turn into a gushing ball of "And IIIIII will always looooove youuuu"
Spoilerin the voice of Whitney Houston
.

Don't get me wrong, I love me some forbidden romance as much as the next guy, but... No. With how this book started I was hoping it'd be more subtle about the romance, and therefore will bring so much pain with how impossible this is to happen. But alas,
Spoilerwe got our happy ending
of which turns out I am not the biggest fan.
SpoilerBring me pain or bring me nothing.


So overall, a very enjoyable read. Sincerely, I was having so much fun. But I can't give the forth star, I'm deeply sorry, Zahra.