How To Make A Wish by Ashley Herring Blake
(Initially posted on August 30th, 2016 in my main blog)
Rating: 5/5
Review: I received an Advanced Reading Copy today and I really wasn’t expecting it but I’m incredibly thankful to Houghton Mifflin Hartcourt Publishing and Ashley Herring Blake for sending a signed copy of a book that doesn’t come out in months!
It’s my first time receiving an ARC, and I loved it. I loved the book, the characters, the writing, the easy prose that just kept me hooked from beginning to end.
Bear with me as I talk (gush) more about the book. Queer YA has recently become one of my favorite genres to read, and this beautifully cements my love for it.
Yes, these are teens, but they’re complicated, just as the rest of us are. There’s not a big deal about coming out, which is so great. It’s just normal. A girl likes another girl. *hayley kiyoko voice* Nothing new!
Diversity in the media is so important as well as representation, and having a Queer Interracial Couple be the main focus of a book just makes me ecstatic.
Loved the book and I can’t wait for everyone to read this and cry along with me and feel light and in love.
Book description:
All seventeen year-old Grace Glasser wants is her own life. A normal life in which she sleeps in the same bed for longer than three months and doesn't have to scrounge for spare change to make sure the electric bill is paid. Emotionally trapped by her unreliable mother, Maggie, and the tiny cape on which she lives, she focuses on her best friend, her upcoming audition for a top music school in New York, and surviving Maggie’s latest boyfriend—who happens to be Grace’s own ex-boyfriend’s father. Her attempts to lay low until she graduates are disrupted when she meets Eva, a girl with her own share of ghosts she’s trying to outrun. Grief-stricken and lonely, Eva pulls Grace into midnight adventures and feelings Grace never planned on. When Eva tells Grace she likes girls, both of their worlds open up. But, united by loss, Eva also shares a connection with Maggie. As Grace's mother spirals downward, both girls must figure out how to love and how to move on.
Book Release: May 2nd, 2017
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