A review by rachelmerrie
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

This was so incredibly frustrating as a previous social worker. I’m sure I’d be able to actually enjoy it if it weren’t for the following issues I had:

1.  Never ever ever ever tell a child (especially a foster child or a child that’s not yours) to keep a secret. 
2.  Never ever ever ever promise a foster child that you’ll be his permanent mom one day (even though you’re not even his current foster parent, you’re just his after school tutor) and proceed to tell the child how much money you’ve saved (and how you make said money) to buy you both a home and. 
3.  This woman is upset that the social worker told her she can’t be the child’s foster parent because she lives in a bedroom with roommates who are freshmen in college, she has no steady income, and no vehicle (AND a very toxic ex that she still has contact with). 
4.   She went to this wonderland when she was 13 and thought the adult men were sexy, the adult men who coaxed her to come to the secret island and told her that her parents treat her poorly. 
5.   Why is she romanticizing the times that she ran away when she was a child to this foster child she’s trying to become a foster parent to?
6.   Why is she telling this foster child about how poorly her parents treated her when his parents just died? 

I only made it to chapter 11 (40%), but I can’t go on.

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