Title: Make My Wish Come True
Author: Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derrick
Narrated by: Krystal Hammond and Natalie Naudus
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Length: Approximately 9 hours and 4 minutes
Source: Review Copy from Simon & Schuster Audio.
Do you have a favorite actor/actress that was a former child star?
Arden James is a teen actress with an image problem. She is known as a party girl and it’s interfering with her getting her dream movie role. She decides to fake that her childhood best friend, Caroline Beckett, is her long-term girlfriend. Caroline agrees to play along as Arden promises she will get to write an article in Cosmopolitan about their relationship. Will their fake romance become real?
My thoughts on this book:
Overall, Make My Wish Come True was a slow burn teen romance that never quite captured my attention.• This novel had a dual narrative. Both Arden and Caroline alternate chapters. There were also dual narrators for the audiobook too which I appreciated. I feel this gives the reader a better understanding of the different characters.
• This was a slow-moving teen story. They both seemed to have a crush earlier, but they had never told each other. It was very slow burn.
• There was a lot of angst, complaining, and misunderstandings. The audiobook at least had a slightly negative vibe at times.
• Arden reminds me of someone like a young Lindsay Lohan. Her life spins out of control as she tries to break out of being a child actor. Arden has lost who she is as a person and wants to go back to being a “normal” girl with a girlfriend and family who loves her.
• Tropes: Fake dating, slow burn, Hollywood dating regular, and enemies to lovers.
• This audiobook just never really grabbed my attention. I think I would have liked it better if the characters were in their twenties.
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