I really enjoyed this book! I mean, I really, really, really enjoyed this book! I won it from a Youtube reading, and for the life of me I cannot remember the Youtuber who hosted it. I rarely enter these things because I rarely win! But this time I won, and I won big! The book is beautiful. The cover is stunning. The story is so relatable for me. I was a goody two-shoes like Mandy in high school. I never went to a high school party. (Outside of theatre parties.)

I love Mandy's story, and Desiree's role as a wish mistress. I am intrigued and was pleased to see that there are several more books in the series. Pay day cannot come soon enough! Totally added the rest to my TBR.

I don't know that I want my boys to read the books (and not sure that it would really appeal to them, though they did love Divergent and Hunger games, both series told from a female perspective. Still, this is like those books like The Babysitters Club is like Nancy Drew.) I appreciate as a reader, the need to balance fun with responsibility. At the same time, I don't know that the message of it being ok to lie to your parents, go to high school parties where there is alcohol and sex, and play manipulative games is necessarily a great lesson for my boys to be learning. I do think it is a good older YA audience book, though. It deals with some heavy topics, including death of a sibling, loss of family, divorce, domestic abuse, controlling boyfriends, and mean girls. ( )