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The Wishing Game

Meg Shaffer

Start date: June 1, 2024

Finish date: June 30, 2024

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Sep 14, 2024 Jenn Klinger rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Oh, The Wishing Game... where do I even begin? Let me start with this: if not for the ending that utterly shattered me, this book might have gotten a lower rating. But when I say shattered, I mean my heart broke and my eyes were so blurry with tears that I had to pause just to collect myself. I wasn’t expecting that level of emotional wreckage! And here’s the thing—it’s probably not even all that sad for most readers. But for me, as a mother, it struck something deep. If you’re a mother, or a wo ...more

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Dec 03, 2023 Jessica rated it really liked it

Shelves: listened-to, fiction, romance, fantasy-magical-realism, family

Lucy wants to adopt Christopher, one of the students she taught in her kindergarten class where she is a TA, because she knows what it's like to grow up without parents who love you, but she'll never be able to do it with her credit card debt, no car, three roommates, and a minimum wage job. But then she gets invited to participate in a game held by her favorite author, Jack Masterson, who wrote the Clock Island series. The prize is the only copy of his next novel. If Lucy can win it and sell it ...more

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