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Grandma always said dying is the the easy part; it’s the living that’s hard. I’ve been fighting to live since I was seven years old, and now the doctors say I’m gonna lose that battle soon. I’ve crossed off just about everything on my bucket list—I’ve seen the Eiffel Tower and the Coliseum and I’ve been swimming in the Caribbean; I’ve lived like I’m dying, because I am.
There’s just one thing left on my list: I want to be a bride. I want to wear white and have my dad walk me down the aisle. I want a first dance and cake and a night to feel like a princess…and I want it with Westley Britton.
The perfect guy. Musician, actor, and every girl’s dream man. My dream man. Only, he doesn’t even know I exist.
It’s the start of a strange, improbable fairy tale. When you’re talking about terminal leukemia, happily ever after seems impossible, but when your celebrity crush and the man of your dreams shows up out of the blue and proposes to you, it makes you feel like anything is possible. Even that hardest thing: living.
Genre: contemporary romance
Publication date: October 2021
Mature content: yes
Review: I really wanted to like this book, and on surface it sounds like the perfect love story. However, when you start turning the pages - well, the plot makes little sense. Not the leukemia healing part, since I have actually read real stories along the same lines.
But the way Jo and Wes meet? Sorry, I wasn't convinced. Jo is little more than a teenager with a crush on a famous singer/actor. And Wes is...well, I really don't have a definition for him. I truly believed he loves Jo at some point in the book. But that he would even consider kissing her literally ten minutes after they first met, much less accept to marry her? That was really the first no-no for me.
Wish Upon a Star felt like a complete fairy tale (of the unbelievable kind) with sex scenes in almost every page from the moment Jo and Wes meet onwards. The story had, I believe, a lot of potential but the rushed way by which the characters fall in love - and the excess of explicit details we did not need to know about - detract readers from the true beauty of what could have been...
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