A Wish For Us
by
Tillie Cole
4 Stars
Nineteen-year-old Cromwell Dean is the rising star of electronic dance music. Thousands of people adore him. But no one knows him. No one sees the color of his heart.
Until the girl in the purple dress. She sees through the walls he has built to the empty darkness within.
When Cromwell leaves behind the gray skies of England to study music in the South Carolina heat, the last thing he expects is to see her again. And he certainly doesn’t expect that she’ll stay in his head like a song on repeat.
Bonnie Farraday lives for music. She lets every note into her heart, and she doesn’t understand how someone as talented as Cromwell can avoid doing the same. He’s hiding from his past, and she knows it. She tries to stay away from him, but something keeps calling her back.
Bonnie is the burst of color in Cromwell’s darkness. He’s the beat that makes her heart skip.
But when a shadow falls over Bonnie, it’s up to Cromwell to be her light, in the only way he knows how. He must help her find the lost song in her fragile heart. He must keep her strong with a symphony only he can compose.
My Thoughts
The one thing I have learned about Tillie Cole is that she can take any subject and create a world that consumes the reader. Dark, young adult, women’s literature, it doesn’t matter what genre, when Tillie Cole tells a story you are without a doubt going to read a story that embeds itself into your soul.
A Wish for Us is written with such amazing grace, beauty and heartfelt emotion. The characters so vivid in their words and emotions. Each character holds that distinct quality that sets them apart from the others. It is impossible not to fall in love with each character, to feel their emotions and to bear their heartache, pain, love and hope.
I didn’t read the synopsis of this story but will admit I was immersed into the story within seconds. Falling head over heels in love with the characters and blinded by anything and everything around me. Written with such loving care the story became my world. Emotions bleeding onto the pages, love strangled only to loosen it’s grip with the turn of each page. The reality of secrets hidden so deeply they shock, surprise, anger and hurt. Love in every form you can image plays out so beautifully between the characters. Bonds so deeply rooted they take your breath away. A story that seemed so real, made me forgot that I was reading fiction.
A perfect blend of life as we know and live it … Family, friends, life, loss and everything in between is what you will find written in A Wish for Us.
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