You Wish eBook Terry Tyler
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YOU WISH
Terry Tyler
YOU WISH was the winner of the "Best Chick Lit/Women's Lit" in the eFestival of Words 2013.
Do we control our own destiny - or might it be determined by fate,
coincidence, luck...or even magic?
Ruth, an amateur psychic with a husband who smokes cannabis for breakfast, is
haunted by a tragic event from her teenage years which, she suspects, was the
result of a wish she made on an allegedly enchanted stone. Too embarrassed to
admit her fears, she keeps her secret to herself for twenty-five years.
Petra is the perennial singleton amongst her friends, unable, she thinks, to
fall in love. She comes across the stone at a Psychic Fair and makes a wish,
just for fun. As the wish begins to come true she wishes she had chosen her
words with more care.
Spoilt, weight-obsessed Sarah wants nothing more than to be "size zero". As
her life spirals downwards into the seedy world of drug abuse and addiction, she
remembers the day at the Psychic Fair when she wished for her heart's desire.
When Ruth learns of the fates of Petra and Sarah she is forced to confront her
guilt and discover the truth about the Wishing Stone...
Terry Tyler's debut novel is a quirky contemporary drama exploring the themes
of family affairs, infidelity and guilt, incorporating jealousy, drug abuse and the
obsession of a Facebook stalker, against a backdrop of secrets and superstition.
You Wish eBook Terry Tyler
Independent book review: You WishI admit it, I am probably not the target audience that Terry Tyler had in mind when she wrote You Wish. I'm the wrong sex. But I still liked it.
You Wish could be categorized as "urban paranormal fantasy." Set in the southern part of the UK and spanning a period from the 80s to 2010, You Wish is about Ruth, a woman who scrapes out a living as a psychic advisor at county fairs and other events, and some of the people she comes into contact with.
As a girl, Ruth finds a magical wishing stone: supposedly, if you touch it and make a wish, the wishes come true. Ruth is deeply conflicted: on one level, she laughs off such a possibility; on another, she's afraid of the power of an object to grant wishes and keeps the stone hidden most of her life.
However, one day her young daughter sets up a little display at her parents' psychic display at a local fair; for a charitable donation, anyone can make a wish on the stone. Three people wish on the stone. One, Petra, wishes she could fall in love like all her friends do; Sarah wishes she could lose weight to achieve her lifelong goal of wearing Size Zero clothes; and a childless couple wishes they could conceive a baby.
The story traces how events conspire to realize these wishes--and the horrifying, yet easily foreseeable effects on the characters' lives.
What I liked
Tyler skillfully weaves the separate stories of the characters together, even bringing some of them back together near the end. She also brings tells Ruth's back-story well, showing how the young Ruth acquired the wishing stone and the emotional roller-coaster a school-age girl goes through. I have to admit, I've seldom had much patience for the drama of the average teenage girl in fiction, but Tyler really knows how to make her reader see through Ruth's eyes. In a few chapters, Tyler also shows very believably exactly what Ruth is afraid of the stone's power.
Another thing I really liked is the realism of the story. All the characters were three-dimensional; no one was just an evocation of Tyler's favourite TV show characters. And the marginal lives of the modern psychics, pathetically selling paintings and psychic readings at fairs and conventions to supplement their social assistance cheques, skimping to raise two children while finding money for dope, shows me that Tyler is not only a skilled observer and reporter of life around her. She doesn't buy the romantic line that psychics and marginal artists sell. She also shares (I think) my own understanding of "magic."
Weaknesses
There were very few things about this book to criticize. Sure, there were occasional typos and awkward sentences, but I defy you to find me any book without a few. (Stieg Larsson fans, give up now.)
There were some long information dumps, about the back-stories of Petra (the girl who wished to fall in love) and, to a lesser extent, Sarah. Tyler wrote several passages about Petra's pursuit of her true love as if she were summing it up for a book report. Many critics have told me to "show, not tell" in my own writing, and for the most part, I think they're right.
Summary
Overall, however, this is an excellent story, skillfully told. Congratulations to Terry Tyler for proving, yet again, the independent authors are producing excellent books.
4*
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You Wish eBook Terry Tyler Reviews
Having met several authors on Twitter over the past few years, I've been afforded a great opportunity to read books of several different genres I might otherwise never have thought to pick up. "You Wish" is one of them. Its intriguing premise grabbed my interest and held it as I worked my way through the stories of its main characters. Maybe it's because I've either traveled down the same roads or have known people who have, but I could definitely relate to them to the point that it was downright scary. It was as though the author was inside my head, digging around through my own struggles and obsessions. I was a little disappointed when a couple of their stories were kind of left behind as the author re-focused on the main character of Ruth, but when the flashbacks to Ruth's childhood began, I again nodded knowingly. The writing is punctuated with British slang, which can be a little distracting as first if you're not familiar with it, but I found it fun to figure out what it meant, and it certainly spiced up the character dialog in ways an American or Canadian-written novel would not have done for me. Very enjoyable!
I picked You Wish after I read another book by this author, so I was expectant. Still this book managed to surprise me. From the very first chapter I was drawn into the story in the way I'm not used to. Maybe it was due to the characters that were very well developed, or maybe I kept swallowing chapter after chapter because I never knew what will happen next. I had my guesses, yet the story managed to surprise me with every turn, going into places I would never guess it might go. Toward the end I found myself reading slower and slower; I didn't want this story to end. I wish there was a sequel to this book, but at the same time I know there could be no sequel - the end was rounded up too perfectly, it didn't leave any lose ends.
Two weeks later, after I finished this book, I'm still thinking about the characters as though I had known them for real. To the point that I found myself willing to lend my to a friend with no e-reader, so she could read this book too. I wish there were more people I could have discuss this book with.
Luckily, this author has more books to offer, so I already picked another one into my .
YOU WISH
By Terry Tyler
Reviewed by R. Murry
The mind is full of imagination and is a fragile muscle that can go astray at any time if not controlled. Ms. Tyler's characters let their minds take over logic to the point of disaster. She presents well written individual accounts pivoting around the theme - watch out what you wish for, it may come true.
Her main character Ruth tells the stories, including her own, about the desire of having something the easy way by wishing for it. This is where the human imagination kicks in - one believes what one cares to believe. And we attach the notion that it is some universal circumstance that we put in motion because we wish for it, using a conduit albeit a cross, a candle lit in a church, or a stone.
Ms. Tyler takes us through encounters with fate that keeps the reader engaged to find out what happens right to the end. The people come alive trying to change their personal situations - love of a particular individual, being the right size, or possessing something that hard work can only attain.
There were no lulls in any of the situations Terry introduces. She has you thinking from the first plot - why would anyone believe that? The truth be known, we all might fall into the traps of life that Ms. Tyler puts her characters through. We all want to be loved. We all want to be the right shape. And we all want to say the right thing at the right moment, but we always don't, like the people in her book.
I give thumbs up to this novel that gets into what motivates the human mind in such a clear and precise way.
Independent book review You Wish
I admit it, I am probably not the target audience that Terry Tyler had in mind when she wrote You Wish. I'm the wrong sex. But I still liked it.
You Wish could be categorized as "urban paranormal fantasy." Set in the southern part of the UK and spanning a period from the 80s to 2010, You Wish is about Ruth, a woman who scrapes out a living as a psychic advisor at county fairs and other events, and some of the people she comes into contact with.
As a girl, Ruth finds a magical wishing stone supposedly, if you touch it and make a wish, the wishes come true. Ruth is deeply conflicted on one level, she laughs off such a possibility; on another, she's afraid of the power of an object to grant wishes and keeps the stone hidden most of her life.
However, one day her young daughter sets up a little display at her parents' psychic display at a local fair; for a charitable donation, anyone can make a wish on the stone. Three people wish on the stone. One, Petra, wishes she could fall in love like all her friends do; Sarah wishes she could lose weight to achieve her lifelong goal of wearing Size Zero clothes; and a childless couple wishes they could conceive a baby.
The story traces how events conspire to realize these wishes--and the horrifying, yet easily foreseeable effects on the characters' lives.
What I liked
Tyler skillfully weaves the separate stories of the characters together, even bringing some of them back together near the end. She also brings tells Ruth's back-story well, showing how the young Ruth acquired the wishing stone and the emotional roller-coaster a school-age girl goes through. I have to admit, I've seldom had much patience for the drama of the average teenage girl in fiction, but Tyler really knows how to make her reader see through Ruth's eyes. In a few chapters, Tyler also shows very believably exactly what Ruth is afraid of the stone's power.
Another thing I really liked is the realism of the story. All the characters were three-dimensional; no one was just an evocation of Tyler's favourite TV show characters. And the marginal lives of the modern psychics, pathetically selling paintings and psychic readings at fairs and conventions to supplement their social assistance cheques, skimping to raise two children while finding money for dope, shows me that Tyler is not only a skilled observer and reporter of life around her. She doesn't buy the romantic line that psychics and marginal artists sell. She also shares (I think) my own understanding of "magic."
Weaknesses
There were very few things about this book to criticize. Sure, there were occasional typos and awkward sentences, but I defy you to find me any book without a few. (Stieg Larsson fans, give up now.)
There were some long information dumps, about the back-stories of Petra (the girl who wished to fall in love) and, to a lesser extent, Sarah. Tyler wrote several passages about Petra's pursuit of her true love as if she were summing it up for a book report. Many critics have told me to "show, not tell" in my own writing, and for the most part, I think they're right.
Summary
Overall, however, this is an excellent story, skillfully told. Congratulations to Terry Tyler for proving, yet again, the independent authors are producing excellent books.
4*
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