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A review by chandlerainsley
How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake
4.0
break my fucking neck
now that i have your attention, this book was good. fun back story time: i have way too many books but i was craving something new so i finally got a library card and grabbed 5 books that i knew little about and went home and immediately started this one.
i knew that this had a f/f relationship but pretty much nothing else. and it took me by surprise. it's about a girl named grace with an irresponsible & alcoholic mother who is just trying to get through her senior year. a new girl comes to town, they fall in love, bad shit happens.
i genuinely enjoyed how this was written. it was musical and lyrical without being too purple. the emotions that blake describes are ones that i've actually experienced.. especially in relation to romantic feelings. too often, i feel like authors try and make things pretty and in doing so they make a character's emotions and physical feelings way too difficult to connect with. not this one.
i also appreciated the way that side characters came into place. it felt very slice of life. no one was there to provide big life lessons or help grace figure her shit out, she had to do that on her own.
the only thing i didn't like about this book was how grace handled her mother. i have never been in a situation where my parent is codependent on me and also emotionally manipulative. so i can't say that i think grace made stupid decisions. but it was really painful to watch grace put up with so much bullshit, especially near the end of the book when she had a support system, outside of just her mom, to turn to
overall, this book was sincerely beautiful. i think this is the first FF i've read in at LEAST 2 years and i'm so glad this one was the first book i picked up from my stack. give it a try, it's a nice quiet read and even though it's set in the summer it's perfect for fall.
now that i have your attention, this book was good. fun back story time: i have way too many books but i was craving something new so i finally got a library card and grabbed 5 books that i knew little about and went home and immediately started this one.
i knew that this had a f/f relationship but pretty much nothing else. and it took me by surprise. it's about a girl named grace with an irresponsible & alcoholic mother who is just trying to get through her senior year. a new girl comes to town, they fall in love, bad shit happens.
i genuinely enjoyed how this was written. it was musical and lyrical without being too purple. the emotions that blake describes are ones that i've actually experienced.. especially in relation to romantic feelings. too often, i feel like authors try and make things pretty and in doing so they make a character's emotions and physical feelings way too difficult to connect with. not this one.
i also appreciated the way that side characters came into place. it felt very slice of life. no one was there to provide big life lessons or help grace figure her shit out, she had to do that on her own.
the only thing i didn't like about this book was how grace handled her mother. i have never been in a situation where my parent is codependent on me and also emotionally manipulative. so i can't say that i think grace made stupid decisions. but it was really painful to watch grace put up with so much bullshit, especially near the end of the book when she had a support system, outside of just her mom, to turn to
overall, this book was sincerely beautiful. i think this is the first FF i've read in at LEAST 2 years and i'm so glad this one was the first book i picked up from my stack. give it a try, it's a nice quiet read and even though it's set in the summer it's perfect for fall.