The Wish, by Nicholas Sparks

[Leigh, ⚔️ Wonder Woman ⚔️]

Genre: Contemporary Romance, Holiday > Christmas


Book Description:1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach town—and introduces her to photography, a passion that will define the rest of her life.

By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.

As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier—and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.

Some things to think about while you're reading. Answer just one or all of these questions, but remember, PLEASE USE SPOILER TAGS when necessary! If you don't know how, ask :)

1. What was your initial reaction to the book? Did it hook you immediately, or take some time to get into?

2. Do you think the story was plot-based or character driven?

3. What was your favorite quote/passage?

4. What made the setting unique or important? Could the story have taken place anywhere?

5. Did you pick out any themes throughout the book?

6. How credible/believable did you find the narrator to be? Did you feel like you got the 'true' story?

7. How did the characters change throughout the story? How did your opinion of them change?

8. Which character did you relate to the most, and what was it about them that you connected with?

9. How did you feel about the ending? What did you like, what did you not like, and what do you wish had been different?

10. If the book were being adapted into a movie, who would you want to see play what parts?

[Christine]

I really loved that book and I was hooked on the book right away and and I can’t answer numbers 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7 and 8 and 9 and I would want Maggie Dawes to be played by Sophia Bush and I would want Bryce Trickett to be played by Dylan Minnette

[Leigh, ⚔️ Wonder Woman ⚔️]

Congrats Christine! Glad you liked it.

[Sheri, Bookworm]

I've never read anything by Nicholas Sparks. I've seen a lot of people talking about this, though, so I might try it.

[Leigh, ⚔️ Wonder Woman ⚔️]

Sheri wrote: "I've never read anything by Nicholas Sparks. I've seen a lot of people talking about this, though, so I might try it."

You should definitely try some of his books. I loved

[Christine]

Thanks Leigh