Wish For Me
Claire Wilder Made Me Cry. And it was F*cking Glorious!
I will say it again. Claire Wilder made me cry. And I am not even a little ashamed to admit I made it through eighty-five percent of Wish For Me on a happy holiday high before the waterworks started. And they stayed until the very last page. Because what started as a mildly angsty and steamy story of friends finding their way through life toward love, quickly became a tear-jerker with the most amazing freaking happy ending.
Wish for Me is a next gen story, the last in Wilder’s Quince Valley Romance series, and the most glorious way to wrap up the lives of the OG characters and the wonderful mystery that wove its way through books one through five. I absolutely love the main characters. Both Noelle and Leif are so incredibly well-developed, a really fantastic feat for a novella. And their connections to the series provided a truly lovely feeling of coming home.
Outside of the serious pining between Leif and Noelle, the characters also navigate some serious revelations and wake up calls. Theirs is a story of understanding what you want, what you need, and how amazing it is when those two things collide. It’s about chasing dreams, recognizing love, and choosing your forever. Wish For Me pulled together tales of old and new love, tragedy and renewal, with pasts, presents, and futures entwined. And Wilder brought it all to life in 192 freaking pages. Amazing. So amazing I refused to put the book down unless I had to. And I am already planning to read it again.
While Wish For Me can be read as a standalone—the characters are new, the plot and their HEA is self-contained in the book—I highly recommend reading it as part of the overall series. If you’re not adverse to a mystery subplot spoiler (and I do mean deep subplot, but it weaves through the entire series) you can one hundred percent read Wish For Me first. But I guarantee you will want to go back and read every other book as well.
