Wishing for You

She's a girl who can't remember. He's the guy she can't forget...

It's her final semester of high school, and Kimberley Rey is curious about what will come next. She needs to pick a college, but her memory disability complicates the choice. Will her struggles to remember make it impossible to leave home?

Help arrives through an unexpected and supernatural gift. Grant is a "genie" with rules. He can give her thirty wishes (one per day for a month) as long as the tasks are humanly possible. Kimberley knows just what to ask for--lessons in how to live on her own.

But her wishes change when a friend receives a devastating diagnosis. As she joins forces with Grant to help her friend, Kimberley learns that the ability to live in the moment--to forget--may be more valuable than she ever knew.

A copy of this book was provided to me in return for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

My rating: five out of five stars

I loved this book as much as I did the first in the series. I already knew many of the characters from book one. This book focused on Lacey's best friend Kimberley. Kimberley has a unique (at least to me) disability from childhood cancer treatments that causes a loss of her short term memory. She carries around an ipad and her iphone to help her remember the details. I was really curious to read how Kimberley would choose to use her wishes. She wishes for help learning to do the things in life most of us take for granted: walking to the store, making her own meals, driving.

While she is going through her month of wishes, her friend gets a "devastating diagnosis" by that you just assume that the friend is going to die, and he does, but it is so much more then that. The bond between Kimberley and her friend is an amazing one. She is one of the few people who know of his diagnosis. He wants her to treat him no differently then before. He wants to live each of his last days to the best of his ability and Kimberley helps him do just that.

During the last half of this book, Kimberley is learning photography and what she does with those new skills is just an amazing gift for both her and her friends and family. I love that they added this element to Kimberley's character. All the characters in this book are so relate-able. The few people that know about the diagnosis have such differing ways of coping, it's something I see in my line of work. Very realistic. The book was less about wishes and more about human relationships.

This book was simply amazing. I loved every page, even the ones that had me crying into my pillow.