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What You Wish for by Katherine Center
Sam (Samantha Casey) is living her dream life as a librarian at an innovative and creative elementary school, where her style of injecting fun and color into every day is accepted by all--the entire faculty feels more like family.
But at a birthday party for one of the school leaders, tragedy strikes. A new principal has to be found--and as happens in the World of RomCom, the replacement, Duncan Carpenter, is her former crush. Only this isn't the creative, amazing Duncan who never noticed her. This new iteration of Duncan is unsmiling, repaints the murals gray for obscure reasons having to do with school safety, which is his obsession. Duncan now notices her, but with the deadly fish-eye of RomCom Conflict. . . until she discovers that she's listed as his ride after a medical procedure.
We know what's going to happen, and it does with plenty of heart and appreciation for joy. For a romance novel, this book packs in a lot of dark stuff--school shootings, abusive marriages, epilepsy, bullying, a missing child being just a few. But Center deals with these issues with compassion and at times a very broad brush; the resolution of the missing child turns into one of the book's best scenes.
This was my first encounter with this author. Won't be my last.
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But at a birthday party for one of the school leaders, tragedy strikes. A new principal has to be found--and as happens in the World of RomCom, the replacement, Duncan Carpenter, is her former crush. Only this isn't the creative, amazing Duncan who never noticed her. This new iteration of Duncan is unsmiling, repaints the murals gray for obscure reasons having to do with school safety, which is his obsession. Duncan now notices her, but with the deadly fish-eye of RomCom Conflict. . . until she discovers that she's listed as his ride after a medical procedure.
We know what's going to happen, and it does with plenty of heart and appreciation for joy. For a romance novel, this book packs in a lot of dark stuff--school shootings, abusive marriages, epilepsy, bullying, a missing child being just a few. But Center deals with these issues with compassion and at times a very broad brush; the resolution of the missing child turns into one of the book's best scenes.
This was my first encounter with this author. Won't be my last.
Copy provided by NetGalley