Saving Wishes (Wishes, #1) in Aussie Readers

Jun 29, 2013 Brenda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: aussie-authors, net-galley, first-in-a-series, young-adult, read-on-kindle, arc, own-read, 2013-release

Charlotte Blake was seventeen and doing her final year of high school in her small home town of Pipers Cove in Tasmania. Her best friend for forever was Nicole, and the two of them had been planning to leave home at the end of school and travel around the world. Saving money through working part time in Charli’s brother, Alex’s little shop was building Nicole’s nest egg, and Charli sold the beautiful photos she took after turning them into postcards of the area.

Charli and Alex loved to surf and ...more

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Apr 30, 2016 Kathryn rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ebooks, owned, australian-authors, reading-list-2016

Very YA. Good, although a little unrealistic, considering how self-assured the 17 year old was. I read the first one because I got it for free as an iBook or on the Kindle app. Will I keep reading the series? Possibly, if my library buys the next books in the series - they aren’t ones I’d bother to buy.

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Apr 16, 2013 Stacey (sassysreadingnook) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: blog-tours

Purely Spellbinding!

I have to admit, it's the cover that first caught my eye and once I read the blurb, well it sealed the deal. ;-)

I absolutely fell in love with this story, it's about a young girl trapped in a small town in Piper's Cove, Tasmania, Australia. With dreams of travelling the world with her best friend, Charlotte or as she prefers to be called Charli, is not your average teenage girl. Charli has a free spirit, she's adventures and likes to live spontaneously. Living in such a small
Purely Spellbinding!

I have to admit, it's the cover that first caught my eye and once I read the blurb, well it sealed the deal. ;-)

I absolutely fell in love with this story, it's about a young girl trapped in a small town in Piper's Cove, Tasmania, Australia. With dreams of travelling the world with her best friend, Charlotte or as she prefers to be called Charli, is not your average teenage girl. Charli has a free spirit, she's adventures and likes to live spontaneously. Living in such a small town nothing is kept secret and everyone knows everybody's business, and Charli had become known for her craziness as the troublemaker. But see causing trouble was the only way to have a little fun. ;-)

Charli, she's such a unique and intriguing character, I loved how she always had something to say and if someone was being rude she always stood up for herself and others OR she just took action instead, lol. Charli believes in fate and she believed that a certain handsome French/American Adam was in town just to find her, and maybe he was.

Adam, is such a gorgeous character not only is he completely swoon worthy but he is also smart, sweet, generous, bold and did I mention he speaks French?! *sigh* I don't speak or undertsand French but I swear when he spoke I had a sweet, sexy voice in my head, lol. Adam had come to town to visit his cousin and when he met Charli things started to happen.

G.J. Walker-Smith has written a truly beautiful story. From the very first page I was sucked in, Charli tells her story with such conviction you can't help but feel like you're there watching it unfold. All the characters bring along something special, even the ones you want to smack in the face (which there are quite a few), lol.

The plot is full of twists and turns, I had my mouth hanging open a few times, lol. G.J. Walker-Smith knows how to keep her readers on their toes. And she also knows how to keep them coming back for more, I know that I'm dying to get my hands on book two, Second Hearts. Which from Goodreads, is already out. So I'm off to purchase my copy and get back into this astoundingly addictive story.
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Oct 29, 2014 Kira rated it really liked it

Shelves: keeper, romance, kindle-bargains, funny, ya, aussie-author, drama

Charli is a small town girl who has lived her whole life in a little seaside village in Tasmania at the very bottom of Australia who believes she's the town's equivalent of a naughty girl, only she's not. Charli has big dreams of escaping her small town life and travelling the world. Until Adam, a gorgeous French American breezes into town on the back of a postcard that Charli had taken the photograph for. He sweeps her off her feet and she falls in love with him. But their lives are so differen ...more

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Apr 07, 2013 Aimie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: i-highly-recommend, romance, young-adult, rrrc-challenge-2013, signed

I really enjoyed this book. The characters were fab, the story lines good, the big twist a huge shock, the sad bits were heartbreaking. I am really looking forward to reading book #2 in the series.

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Jun 02, 2014 Ang -PNR Book Lover Reviews rated it really liked it

3.5-4 Stars

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Jun 25, 2016 Kalliste rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, australian

Charli still quite unlikable and I found the characters not overly realistic. I also didn't like how it ended, I haven't yet decided whether I'll read onto book 2 or not. I'm not sure if it is worth it. ...more

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