Title: The Wish
By: Nicholas Sparks
Genre: Fiction
Pages: 387
Release Date: September 28th, 2021
Rating: ★★★★★
Summary from Goodreads:
1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she met Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce showed her how much there was to love about the wind-swept beach town—and introduced her to photography, a passion that would define the rest of her life.
By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.
As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier—and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.
Review:
Nicholas Sparks and I have a complicated relationship. Every book feels like a familiar walk through heartbreak, hope, and a tear-stained final chapter. And yet I keep coming back for more. The Wish is classic Sparks in all the best ways: emotional, romantic, and deeply human. Maggie's story is one of first love, hard choices, and the bittersweet beauty of memory. It hooked me from the first page and didn't let go, even after I turned the last one. Yes, I’ve seen this formula before, but Sparks still manages to make it feel fresh, raw, and real. This one hit differently, and I’m not even mad about the tears.
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