When Lily Jacobs was born, she inherited Fazire – a genie. Her family had three wishes and they’d only ever used one so Fazire was stuck in the human world. This worked since he’d become a member of the family anyway.
Even with a genie, Lily’s young life wasn’t perfect. To escape the kids making her miserable at school, Lily buried herself in romance novels. One day, when the teasing was just too much, she used one of her wishes. She told Fazire she wanted to find a man like in her books and she made the most complicated wish Fazire had ever heard. Her wished-for man had to be impossibly handsome, virile, fierce, rugged, and ruthless (amongst a dozen other things).
He also had to think she was beautiful and he had to love her more than anything in the world.
Nathaniel McAllister wasn’t born to a life where there were such things as genies granting wishes. His life was filled with drugs, crime, and neglect. He was running errands for a gangster before he was in his teens and, even though life and hard work led him to wealth and respectability, he always knew, deep down, he was dirty. When Nate met Lily he knew he was no good for her but as virile, fierce, rugged, and ruthless as he was, Nate was no match for the pull of sweet, innocent Lily.
Unfortunately, Lily’s wish included that she and her hero go through trials and tribulations to test their love. And Fazire wasn’t only a good genie, he loved Lily – so he gave her exactly what she wanted.
Very good standalone romance 😀 4 starsÂ
Not my favorite – but emotionally satisfying Up until about 77%, this was going to be my lowest-rated KA book ever. There are certain things I count on in the KA formula, and one of them is that once the H/h are together, any issues that arise are outside of their relationship & they face them together. This story is different (and not only because there’s a genie!) from that formula, and at about 67% I was ready to toss my kindle & growl.Â
Heartbreakingly beautiful – Kleenex box needed I always forget how heartbreakingly beautiful this story is, and I’ve read it a bunch of times already. Three Wishes is one of those fantastic KA books that grabs you and won’t let you go until you’ve read the very last word.Â