REVIEW FOR UNDERHYPED: WHAT YOU WISH FOR
WHAT YOU WISH FOR by KATHERINE CENTER
STANDALONE
REVIEW:
Katherine Center
delivers once again with this heartful small town romance. Typical for her books,
the protagonist once again has a less known but common syndrome, disorder, or
disease and we read it exactly how it affects their daily lives and learn their
normal – which is not that different from our normal.
Also,
typical for her books, there is lots and lots of monologue (I mean, the woman’s
whole writing style is narrative where the protagonist is always, always overthinking
at every moment) with lots of good friendships and humour. Have I mentioned how
much I love Katherine’s writing style? Because the answer is a lot. I
read a book of hers, and then I think like her protagonists for the next seven
working days. Sadly, I am a better person for those seven days than I am for
any other consecutive seven days of my life.
What You Wish
For is about Sam, who
has had epilepsy since early childhood, something which fucked up her childhood
very much. Now a librarian, she falls in love with a rainbows-and-sunshine
teacher at her school who doesn’t even know she exists and starts dating someone
who is not Sam (because, you know, he doesn’t know Sam exists). So of
course, our girl here had no other choice but to pack her life up and move as
far away as she could. And she did. Only, four years after that, the rainbows-and-sunshine
guy comes to her little island in Texas as her principal and he is not
rainbows-and-sunshine anymore.
So of
course, she is going
to help him be back to his old jolly self. (And fall in love with him again. Again,
because she had definitely moved on after four years. *eyeroll*)
This book
was entertaining, hilarious, and quite informative about epilepsy. Epilepsy is
kind of looked down at a lot in India, so it was even more impactful for me.
Especially because a cousin of mine (The Intelligent One of our family) has
epilepsy and everyone talks horribly about his seizures. When I was a child, those
talks used to make me afraid of him. So yeah, this book was very important for
me to understand how this disease does not become the person. I hope it does something for one of you guys too. Or any other book of Center’s – they all
relate to all of us somehow.
Once again,
a masterpiece which needs so much more attention than it is getting.
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