Three people. Three wishes. One chance

Book 3 of Dreams Come True"

Ben has a gift for storytelling and to get his degree in film making he was assigned to make a dying girl’s wish come true. If he could hold it together, he might just fulfil one of his own. The problem was he’d never been good with kids and even less comfortable with beautiful women and the prospect of illness and death scared him, well, to death. Life hadn’t been easy for Charlie after being kicked out of her parent’s house and dumped by her boyfriend when she refused to have an abortion. Now, six years later, Charlie’s daughter had leukemia and all she wanted was the same thing she’d wanted since she took the pregnancy test so long ago: for her baby to live. After two long years of treatment, and news it hadn’t helped, Olivia had one last wish: to leave a legacy for her mother. As she worked on the documentary with Ben, it seemed to be working and Olivia felt better than she had in a very long time. Then the father she’d never met showed up.

I liked the book, although it was a true tearjerker, figuratively as well as literally, especially where Charlie is involved. Charlie is fighting very hard to keep Ollie (her daughter Olivia) as healthy as possible, and when she meets Ben again, she is physically so exhausted that she hurts both her feet so she has to stay at Ben’s house. She and Ben have an instant mutual attraction from before they were properly introduced. The book is about how Ollie fights her disease and as a bit on the side there’s the lovestory between Ben and Charlie. I think the story was a bit too haphazardly put together and this very tearful story with a happy ending is well written, although I think the writer is better at writing livelier dialogues than what she had to work with here. To wrap it up: I liked the story but I felt something was missing – I don’t like to write a review about a book where I have to add (some) but(s).