A review by legalhutch
Wished by Sarah Ready

4.0

Excellent story with a "new to me" plot that kept me hooked, once I was able to get past the initial start of the book. It started off rather slow and, at times, it felt like the author was a little too focused on setting the scenery. Given the number of lavish details she provided, I could quite literally play this book (and audio) in my head as a live action movie. You could tell that the MMC wasn't just a grump. He was a grump who was desperately clinging onto the notion that he couldn't handle love or passion, not that he didn't want it. However, the moment he got even a glimpse of it, he was done for. You see this play out in the back third of the book and it broke my heart for him. It broke for the FMC as well, as you could see that she is unable to let go of the idea that he wants her only because of the wish, not because of who she has become to him in such a short amount of time. I would have loved to have gotten the MMCs POV, outside of the Prologue and Epilogue. From the perspective of the written text, it would have rounded out the story for me. Or maybe it's because I loved the MMC that much. I was able to listen to this as an audio book as well and given that aspect, the single narrator worked out just great either way.

Thank you, NetGalley and Sarah Ready for the opportunity to listen/read to this ARC.