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    Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
    Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
    Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
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    Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes

    By Denise Grover Swank

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    For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She’s had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone’s toilet’s overflowed, but she’s never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn't enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect.

    Rose realizes she’s wasted twenty-four years of living and makes a list on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt: twenty-eight things she wants to accomplish before her vision comes true. She’s well on her way with the help of her next door neighbor Joe, who has no trouble teaching Rose the rules of drinking, but won’t help with number fifteen-- do more with a man. Joe’s new to town, but it doesn’t take a vision for Rose to realize he’s got plenty secrets of his own.

    Somebody thinks Rose has something they want and they’ll do anything to get it. Her house is broken into, someone else she knows is murdered, and suddenly, dying a virgin in the Fenton County jail isn’t her biggest worry after all.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
    Release dateDec 19, 2013
    ISBN9781939996022
    Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes
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    Denise Grover Swank

    New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank was born in Kansas City, Missouri and lived in the area until she was nineteen. Then she became a nomadic gypsy, living in five cities, four states and ten houses over the course of ten years before she moved back to her roots. She speaks English and smattering of Spanish and Chinese which she learned through an intensive Nick Jr. immersion period. Her hobbies include witty Facebook comments (in own her mind) and dancing in her kitchen with her children. (Quite badly if you believe her offspring.) Hidden talents include the gift of justification and the ability to drink massive amounts of caffeine and still fall asleep within two minutes. Her lack of the sense of smell allows her to perform many unspeakable tasks. She has six children and hasn't lost her sanity. Or so she leads you to believe.  

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    • 2/5
      Ugh, given all the publicity around this book, I thought I would like it much better, and I almost thought I would when I began reading it. I would have loved this to be a literary fiction and not a mystery. Rose's story of how she broke free was so much more compelling than the mystery.

      But this is a mystery, and it is a mystery I have to review. As a mystery, this book lacks a lot of substance. Rose has such a powerful story about her life, being trapped and the growth she has to do. BUT the book gets caught up in a rather silly mystery where the reason for everything happening is really not clear till the end.

      I mean if the reason for her Momma being killed is simply that the bad guy wanted to kill her instead, that's a supremely poor reason for someone to kill. And if the bad guy went and found the mother at home, why wouldn't he just escape? Doesn't he come in wearing a skull cap? Like, there is NO logical progression for the murder happening. None AT ALL.

      The whole book hinges on a silly flash drive with important data, but WHY the bad guy thinks Rose has it, is really not clear. Like it's as if the author realized at the very end that the flash drive has to have some importance so there's a character nobody knows nothing about who has it. Like, it makes ZERO sense.

      Joe was an on and off character. He blew hot and cold so many times it made no sense. And Rose it seemed only ran on lust and not common sense.

      The only few stars I am giving is because the book's focus on Rose and how free she felt was something every woman should feel. That part was so heartening, I was in tears. I could really feel all the restrictions that were on Rose and how they got lifted. I wish the story had focused on that because that would have been a tear jerker.

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