It’s buried deep in the Mojave Desert and its residents keep a magical secret which causes them to discourage visitors and newcomers to the town - not that anyone would want to enter that hot, dust, and tainted town anyhow. It felt really juvenile but other than that I really enjoyed it.Īs You Wish takes place in an idle and depressing small town called Madison on the outskirts of Las Vegas. The only thing I found some what annoying was the passages where we get people's stories in like a weird disembodied way and it's just like 'see a girl'. Also it does only follow Eldon for like a month I think so I'm not sure how much more change for him as a person I would've bought. I thought the plot unfolded nicely and it gave us time to see the characters develop. I also didn't find the book to be slow, I feel like I read this one in one whole sitting as well and I thought the pacing was good which is the other thing I see reviews saying. Mostly I think I too can be annoying/whiny/a shithead so books with characters like that just feel more commiserate with my own self and experience. I often find that I enjoy shitty flawed characters a lot more and this feels like when I enjoyed things like Sorrows of Young Werther or The Catcher in the Rye and everyone else was just like I hate the protagonist he's whiny and annoying. I think what most people hated about this book that made me like it is that Eldon is kind of a shit head.

The book follows Eldon, who lives in a small town where everyone gets one wish on their eighteenth birthday, as he tries to figure out what to wish for. So I seemed to have enjoyed this book a lot more than most people and now I'm confused about whether or not I missed something.

As you wish by chelsea sedoti