Mandy Hubbard
August 5, 2010, Razorbill
272 pages
Summary(from goodreads):
Kayla McHenry's sweet sixteen sucks! Her dad left, her grades dropped, and her BFF is dating the boy Kayla's secretly loved for years. Blowing out her candles, Kayla thinks: I wish my birthday wishes actually came true. Because they never freakin' do.
Kayla wakes the next day to a life-sized, bright pink My Little Pony outside her window. Then a year's supply of gumballs arrives. A boy named Ken with a disturbing resemblance to the doll of the same name stalks her. As the ghosts of Kayla's wishes-past appear, they take her on a wild ride . . . but they MUST STOP. Because when she was fifteen? She wished Ben Mackenzie would kiss her. And Ben is her best friend's boyfriend.
Review:
First off, I want to say that I loved the whimsy that this book held. How many times has one blown out the candles on the birthday cake wishing something extraordinary would happen? I for one cannot remember wishes from one year to the next, so it was definitely a fun read for Kayla to live through the wishes she had asked for through different periods in her life.
I liked how fun this book was to read, and there were several moments where I laughed out loud. The character growth that Kayla went through from making the wish and to the end of the book was very realistic. She dealt with feelings for her estranged father and tried to gain attention from her workaholic mother. These are situations that teens have to deal with a lot more with working class parents.
I found the book fun and a quick read. For some reason, the book read a bit older than one published in 2010, but it was still a good, fun read.
4/5
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