What she needs is a miracle. What she gets is a genie with rules.
Lacey Linden has gotten good at hiding the truth of her life—a depressed mom, a crumbling house, and bills too big to pay. In school, she’s a girl with a ready smile and good grades, but at night, Lacey spends her time dreaming up ways to save her family. On a get-cash-quick trip to the flea market, she stumbles over a music box … music box that seemingly begs her to take it home. She does, only to find it is inhabited by a gorgeous “genie.” He offers her a month of wishes, one per day, but there’s a catch. Each wish must be humanly possible.
Grant belongs to a league of supernatural beings, dedicated to serving humans in need. After two years of fulfilling conventional wishes, he’s one assignment away from promotion to a new job with more challenging cases. His month with Lacey is exactly what he expects and nothing like he imagines. Lacey and Grant soon discover that the hardest task of all might be saying goodbye.
“Langston wisely limits the power of wishes, so there can be no easy fixes to complex problems…putting the focus on the compelling and sympathetic characters.” –School Library Journal
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the author uses very good action verbs and has realistic dialogue between the characters. The teen has problems but isn’t a crybaby about it.
Very fun read, and interesting because we don’t know what the genie will do next!
I admit. I wanted to cry at the end! My heart for both of them. They both sacrificed for love and still didn’t get it. It just broke my heart!
Nice twist to this entertaining story!
I very much enjoyed this well written, original story and characters! My first of Langston’s and definitely not my last!! She writes of sadness so very well!! I cried and cried… I am reserving my critique of the ending until I read the additional books in the series!!
I LOVED this book…until the end, then I hated it. Seriously, I felt like I had literally been punched in the stomach at the end of the story. SPOILER ALERT, and one I wish I had known before reading this, is that Lacey and Grant don’t get together. And I picked up the remaining 2 books with the hopes that somehow Lacey and Grant would get together by the end of the last book, but nope, he ends up with someone else, and it’s flat and disappointing. I really do not understand why the author even had the Grant/Lacey love story at all, if they weren’t going to be together. The book still would have been really good had she nixed that plot line and just had Lacey and Eli’s romance. The failed Grant/Lacey romance completely killed this series for me. Can’t recommend at all.
Sooo lame
I really enjoyed this book (so much so that I ordered the other 2 books in the series). It is a nice easy read just for fun.
Not the same old genie in a bottle. The author created some twists to enhance the plot. Central character and her challenges are very compelling.
This book could have been better kept reading because I held on hope it would. Would not recommend just glad it was free would have been pissed if I paid for it.
Sweet. A very sweet story.
The author has a different spin on The Genie and the lamp. It was a bit dicey due to the heroine still in high school. Cute and original.
It has been a long time since I was in high school but even then some teenagers has a lot more on their shoulders than cheerleading or club meetings.
It was great that the author took us through the trauma of not having enough, not enough food, not enough for gasoline, and a parent that was deep in their own problems.
Clever fun book. Thought provoking.
In real life help can come from strange places too. This book is worth reading for the real life situations, and one girl who is burdened, but determined. Help does appear, but gives her more than she bargained for.
I really enjoyed the story line. It had moments of fun and playful dialogue.
Reminds you that sometimes money cannot solve a thing.
I love this book. Lacy is a mature teen who unselfishly makes decisions to hold her family together, while focusing on independence and keeping secrets. Ride the emotional roller coaster with these wonderful characters. This book makes YA fantasies appear shallow. I identified strongly with Lacy and her mother, and I am 75 years old. I am reading I WISH a second time to discover how the author got me so wrapped up. Recommended for all ages.
Refreshing read. Well written.
I never write reviews but this book brought out my emotions. I never cry during movies or reading books or at events. This book actually made me tear up. I enjoyed the story but actually enjoyed it more because it was able to tap into my emotions. I thought it started out slow but realized the reader needs to be set up for the story to truly invoke the emotions. Truly lovely and sad at the same time.
A story of becoming aware that the world and your perceptions aren’t always how you shape them to be. The protagonist believes all responsibilities are on her shoulders and has too much pride to seek help. It’s a story of self sacrifice both when it’s warranted and when it isn’t. A very lovely story
What a delightful book. This kept my interest throughout the story. It was refreshing to read a story that wasn’t filled with violence or vulgar language, and made me want to know how the story would end. It was different from the books I’ve read lately. The characters were truly good people who you wanted to succeed. Congratulations for telling a refreshing and delightful story.