REVIEW FOR UNDERHYPED: WHAT YOU WISH FOR

WHAT YOU WISH FOR by KATHERINE CENTER

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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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