Wish (Bullen novel): Difference between revisions

''Wish'' and its companion novel ''Wishful Thinking'' by Alexandra Bullen share a pattern: An unhappy teenage girl brings her torn dress to a seamstress shop, but instead of getting it mended, she receives three magical dresses, each of which grants her one wish. Her problems are solved, but not before a certain amount of romance, drama and other complications.

 

In ''Wishful Thinking'', orphaned Hazel Snow travels back in time to meet her birth parents and persuade them not to give her up for adoption, but is it possible to change history?

 

* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: Calla calls Olivia "Madonna". Jaime calls Hazel "Blondie", first derisively, then as a joke when they become friends.

* [[Always Identical Twins]]: Olivia and Violet

* [[Meet Cute]]: Hazel and Luke meet when she finds herself walletless in 1990 and he buys her an ice cream cone.

* [[Mr. Fixit]]: Olivia's father Mac is a contractor, absorbed in rebuilding their crumbling old house.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Rosanna to Jaime. {{spoiler|Jaime uses her name as an alias at the clinic, which is why her name ends up on Hazel's birth certificate.}}

* [[Platonic Life Partners]]: Jaime and Luke, since they were toddlers.

* [[Rule of Three]]: Three dresses, three wishes.

* [[Sadist Teacher]]: Mr. Whitley, known to his students as "Shitley" and "Little Napoleon". Olivia first wins Calla's respect by answering his sneering remarks with a clever, articulate summary of the book they were discussing.

* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Flamboyant Violet and shy Olivia. Miles and Bowie are a non-related version.

* [[Spicy Latina]]: Sort of - Posey is spirited, but not exactly sexy, being described as skinny like an old woman.

[[Category:Fantasy Literature]]

[[Category:Young Adult Literature]]