A review by lory_enterenchanted
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

adventurous emotional mysterious

2.0

The magic the author so earnestly wanted to produce was not there for me, I’m afraid. It was supposed to call up happy associations with childhood favorites, but it struck me as unoriginal and labored. I also was uncomfortable with the MC's quest to adopt a neglected foster child when she has not really dealt with her own issues of parental neglect -- it's transparently an effort to use a child to make herself feel better, and that will just throw him from one problematic situation into another. I know, nobody has perfect parents, but I just could not be happy with the facile ending.