[image error]If all your wishes could suddenly come true, what would you do? 

A year ago when the love of her life dumped her for no apparent reason, Ally thought she had hit rock bottom. But now that she has seen him with another woman, and one she knows only too well, her life seems to have reached a whole new level of low. 

Yet, when she stumbles across an ancient object infused with magical powers and a stranger with a dark past appears out of nowhere promising to grant all her wishes, she finds herself hoping again. 

Suddenly Ally’s life is turned upside down; she has a mystery to solve, a rival to beat, a millenarian curse to break, and well, she wants to have some fun playing with her new “gifts”… 

But can she wish her way to happily ever after?

My Review:

Goodreads Rating: 3*

I must confess that when I picked up this book I pictured I would be reading an Aladdin retelling and I was most excited about it.

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If you follow me in Goodreads, you probably saw my gifs stating how much I was enjoying this. However, as the story developed, it turned more and more into a Chick-lit story and lost most of its retelling features, which in turn made me lose interest and become a bit dissapointed. All in all, I literally loved 30% of the book and pretty much disliked or felt meh towards the remaining 70%. Why? Read on!

First off, the genre. Chick-lit is just not for me. I love watching movies on this genre and I do think this story would make a killer movie, but I hate reading this kind of stories. I quickly get annoyed at the level of detail on things I find superficial and lacking. When you are magically granted five wishes and waste two on money and looks, you lose all my respect. But…

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There are, nevertheless, two things I loved about this book: The cover (let’s face it, it’s just perfect ) and Arthur (seriously, why don’t they make them like him anymore?!). Arthur was the one character that kept me reading till the end, the only wise one (among lots of nice adjectives I could use to describe him ^^). But the rest of the characters are just cliché and annoying, specially Ally. At times, she gets so self-centered, conceited and selfish, that it’s hard to feel empathy towards her. I do get that it was kind of the point, but that didn’t made it less frustrating for me.

That being said, the chemistry between her and Arthur is great, their dialogues are witty and full of emotion and I really enjoyed those. I’m really happy that I reached the end of this story, because it got considerably better. In fact, the last 20% of the book sort of lifted my final rating. It left feeling all cozy like this:

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All in all, I consider the story to be a quick, fun read, so if you enjoy the genre make sure to give it a try!