Title: Saving Wishes (The Wishes #1)

Author: G.J. Walker-Smith

Publisher: Amazon Digital 2013

Genre: New Adult

Pages: 370

Rating:  3/5 stars

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How I Got It: Free Kindle read

For Charli Blake, being seventeen is a tough gig. She's been branded a troublemaker, her reputation is in tatters and she's stuck in Pipers Cove, a speck of a town on the coast of Tasmania. Thankfully, it's temporary. Her lifelong dream of traveling the world is just months away from becoming reality. All she has to do is ride out the last few months of high school, which is easier said than done thanks to a trio of mean girls known as The Beautifuls. When Adam Décarie arrives in town, all the way from New York, life takes an unexpected turn. His arrival sets off a chain of events that alters her life forever, convincing her of one thing. Fate brought him to her. Saving Wishes is the story of a girl who doesn't quite fit the life she's living, and the boy who helps her realise why.

This isn't a bad book, but it isn't a good one either.  I am completely neutral when it came to this novel.  I liked the premise and storyline.  I liked the idea of having Charli find out what she wants from life.  I even liked the idea of Adam helping her do it.  But I didn't really liked how it was executed.  I felt like we spent way too much time reiterating how Charli always flees and her various defense mechanisms.  It become all too repetitive.  I kept waiting for the real story to get moving, but it just kept dragging and dragging.  I finished it, but probably only because I have been reading it during the middle of the night feedings and didn't want to switch books.  Overall, I'm just "meh" about this book.

The Wishes (DNFed series)

• #1 Saving Wishes
• #2 Second Hearts
• #2.5 Sand Jewels
• #3 Storm Shells
• #4 Secret North
• #4.5 Silver Dawn
• #5 Star Promise