
“You’d think having a white dad and a black mom means I have three legs and feathers.

How to Make a Wish is about a beautiful f/f romance between a bisexual girl (Grace Glasser) and a biracial lesbian (Eva Brighton). It’s actually more of a 3.5-star read than a 4-star read for me, but since I’m not doing half-star ratings on this blog, I’m going to round up. As Grace’s mother spirals downward, both girls must figure out how to love and how to move on. But, united by loss, Eva also shares a connection with Maggie.

When Eva tells Grace she likes girls, both of their worlds open up. Grief-stricken and lonely, Eva pulls Grace into midnight adventures and feelings Grace never planned on. Her attempts to lay low until she graduates are disrupted when she meets Eva, a girl with her own share of ghosts she’s trying to outrun.

Emotionally trapped by her unreliable mother, Maggie, and the tiny cape on which she lives, she focuses on her best friend, her upcoming audition for a top music school in New York, and surviving Maggie’s latest boyfriend-who happens to be Grace’s own ex-boyfriend’s father. A normal life in which she sleeps in the same bed for longer than three months and doesn’t have to scrounge for spare change to make sure the electric bill is paid. Genre(s): Young adult, f/f romance, contemporaryīook in a few words: Ownvoices, bisexual rep, sweet, emotionalĪll seventeen year-old Grace Glasser wants is her own life.
