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The Wishing Game
by Meg Shaffer
Sometimes you just need a heart hug in a story and this was it.
It’s not a complicated plot and it ends exactly how you wished it would, well even better actually, but don’t we all need that once in a while?
A wish made and a wish granted.
Which is what every single character in this book has…a wish. One that seems impossible or at least out of reach. Some more dire than others, though not in the minds of the wisher.
Wishes springing up from greater fears and harder lived lives and truths.
On the surface this book is a mix of Dr. Seuss and the tale Willy Wonka and his Chocolate Factory. Silly, magical, youthful and whimsical.
But, this shadows darker pain and suffering. Children whose lives taught them sadness, disappointment and fear early on. All of which grew with them like roots, so deep the leaves portray a muted variation of the deeper trauma.
Circumstances in their lives dredged up that trauma and they are faced with the truths of their past once more.
These damaged souls all collected on Clock Island with a wish that only money can make come true. An invite-only contest promises the winner just that, money to make their deepest wish come true.
But, there can only be one winner standing after all the riddles have been solved, or perhaps no winner at all.
The stakes are so high for the contestants, will their desperation result in a vicious and competitive isolation or will it bring them together in commonality and camaraderie?
This story is heartwarming and uplifting, inspiring and joyful.
It is a book of healing and courage.
The characters are endearing, well most at least, and you find it hard to root for only one. But, this is a happy-ending story and everyone gets one, even ones who weren’t playing the game. That’s not spoiling the book that is the recommendation for this book.
Life can suck, read a fairy tale.
It’s not a complicated plot and it ends exactly how you wished it would, well even better actually, but don’t we all need that once in a while?
A wish made and a wish granted.
Which is what every single character in this book has…a wish. One that seems impossible or at least out of reach. Some more dire than others, though not in the minds of the wisher.
Wishes springing up from greater fears and harder lived lives and truths.
On the surface this book is a mix of Dr. Seuss and the tale Willy Wonka and his Chocolate Factory. Silly, magical, youthful and whimsical.
But, this shadows darker pain and suffering. Children whose lives taught them sadness, disappointment and fear early on. All of which grew with them like roots, so deep the leaves portray a muted variation of the deeper trauma.
Circumstances in their lives dredged up that trauma and they are faced with the truths of their past once more.
These damaged souls all collected on Clock Island with a wish that only money can make come true. An invite-only contest promises the winner just that, money to make their deepest wish come true.
But, there can only be one winner standing after all the riddles have been solved, or perhaps no winner at all.
The stakes are so high for the contestants, will their desperation result in a vicious and competitive isolation or will it bring them together in commonality and camaraderie?
This story is heartwarming and uplifting, inspiring and joyful.
It is a book of healing and courage.
The characters are endearing, well most at least, and you find it hard to root for only one. But, this is a happy-ending story and everyone gets one, even ones who weren’t playing the game. That’s not spoiling the book that is the recommendation for this book.
Life can suck, read a fairy tale.