Synopsis:

In this drama-filled love story, private confessions are scattered on the beach during a senior class overnight and explosive secrets threaten to tear everyone apart, including best friends (or maybe more?), Natalia and Ethan.

It’s Senior Sunrise, the epic overnight at the beach that kicks off senior year. But for Natalia and Ethan, it’s the first time seeing each other after what happened at junior prom―when they almost crossed the line from best friends to something more and ruined everything. After ghosting each other all summer, Natalia is desperate to pretend she doesn’t care and Ethan is desperate to fix his mistake.

When the senior class carries out their tradition of writing private letters to themselves―what they wish they would do this year if they were braver―Natalia pours her heart out. So does Ethan. So does everyone in their entire class. But in Natalia’s panicked attempt to retrieve her heartfelt confession, the wind scatters seven of the notes across the beach. Now, Ethan and Natalia are forced to work together to find the lost letters before any secrets are revealed―especially their own.

Seven private confessions. Seven time bombs loose for anyone to find. And one last chance before the sun rises for these two to fall in love.

Review:

Normally I’d say getting through a book quickly is great, however, I think I read this too quickly – to the point where everything about I Wish You Would has blurred and I haven’t really formed an opinion of it.

Well, that’s not entirely true. I do know I enjoyed this, for the most part and I would recommend you check it out. However, if you hate the miscommunication trope, this is not the book for you. I too am a hater of that trope and it features heavily. It’s basically the whole plot. But rather than being constantly annoyed with this I did find myself rooting for Natalia and Ethan. Don’t get me wrong, there were moments when the back and forth of assumptions and not actually telling the other person what they want got very annoying, but the fast pace helped with that.

I’ll also forgive the lack of communication and always assuming the worst because they are teenagers. This is exactly how teens act.

The majority of I Wish You Would takes place over 24 hours and the constant momentum kept the plot fresh. I think if this story was told over a long period of time it would have gotten boring very quickly. I also think the various activities were  a fun way of keeping the narrative fresh. There were constantly new ways to get Natalia and Ethan talking. Unfortunately most of these ended badly.

Something that hasn’t affected my rating but was super annoying was the formatting of the book. I read this on my kindle and a lot of the time ‘T’s were replaced with ‘F’s and some words were either incomplete or random add ons after punctuation. This did affect my reading experience as it made it a little hard to follow at times, but it did seem to stop later on, so it was fine I guess.

As a whole this book is a good read, but there’s not much to say other than that. I liked it. I loved the characters and the setting/situation made what could have been a repetitive plot, more interesting.

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