a super, super old girl.. cloudwish, she was my first character i ever made and used in warrior cats rp, back when i was around 9 or so! she honestly had a pretty good narrative, so i might have to reuse her someday!
We’re pretty sure it’s spelled like this: B-O-O-K. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with our love story recommendations. We just know that it will be love at first page! 😊❤️️
read my full review of cloudwish by fiona wood here.
Sometimes trouble is just a wish away.
For Vân Ước, fantasies fall into two categories: nourishing or pointless. Daydreaming about attending her own art opening? Nourishing. Daydreaming about Billy Gardiner, star of the rowing team who doesn’t even know she’s alive? Pointless.
So Vân Ước tries to stick to her reality—keeping a low profile as a scholarship student at her prestigious Melbourne private school, managing her mother’s PTSD from a traumatic emigration from Vietnam, and admiring Billy from afar. Until she makes a wish that inexplicably (possibly magically) comes true. Billy actually notices her. In fact, he seems to genuinely like her. But as they try to fit each other into their very different lives, Vân Ước can’t help but wonder why Billy has suddenly fallen for her. Is it the magic of first love, or is it magic from a well-timed wish that will eventually, inevitably, come to an end?
my review:
After about four years later and the fourth read, I figured it was time to write my review for this book. While it’s written by a white author (more on that later), it’s so close to my heart because it was one of the first times I got to read a protagonist of Vietnamese descent in a book. Cloudwish tells the story of what transpires when your deepest wish comes true, something you’ve longed for but not believed was possible.
Vân Ước is a model student; she has to be in order to keep her scholarship in the IB program. She also works, plays the oboe, and serves as a translator and the general in-between person for her immigrant parents. But her deepest wish? For her crush Billy to notice her. One day, she makes the wish, and she’s not prepared for the consequences.