As long as Sedoti didn’t screw up the ending or include any slurs against minorities, I was ready to preorder this novel.Īnd, Sedoti pulled through with flying colors.Įldon is a flawed character. Can he make their lives better? How can he be happy if the people around him aren’t? And what hope is there for any of them if happiness isn’t an achievable dream? Doubts build, leading Eldon to a more outlandish and scary thought: maybe you can’t wish for happiness…maybe, just maybe, you have to make it for yourself.Īlthough my prediction might have seemed a little presumptuous, I could tell by the way Sedoti began to weave in the plot and craft such a unique voice for Eldon during the three minutes of gas filling in the first few pages that this was going to be a very enjoyable read for me. And with the lives of his family and friends in chaos, he’s left with more questions than answers.

Some people wish for money, some people wish for love, but Eldon has seen how wishes have broken the people around him. But Eldon wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, because in Madison, everyone gets one wish-and that wish always comes true. In the sandy Mojave Desert, Madison is a small town on the road between nothing and nowhere. What if you could ask for anything- and get it? Wishing is all everyone in Madison ever talks about, and he has had eighteen years to think about it and still is unsure of what to do.Īs he thinks more and more about his wish, Eldon starts to see the true effects of the wishes on the small town of Madison.Įldon’s journey is a poignant one that will make the reader think about what it means to wish and how it can affect an individual and a society. It hasn’t been easy for him, not with his sister in a coma and his mom hounding him to wish for unlimited money. There are rules associated with wishing, though why they’re there and if they actually are true is something you’ll just have to read to find out.Įldon doesn’t know what he wants to wish for. The origins of wishing are not fully clear, nor is how the process works, but countless generations of Madison residents have wished in the Wishing Cave as they recreate the accounts of the original wisher. In Madison, every resident receives a wish on their eighteenth birthday.

They hide secrets from tourists who pass through, hoping to see some sort of extraterrestrial life. Madison isn’t just any ordinary town, despite what they might want you to believe. Set in a small desert town called Madison in the Mojave Desert, As You Wish tells the story of a teenage boy named Eldon. And, this definitely came true.Ĭhelsea Sedoti’s As You Wish is a profound coming-of-age novel about self-discovery, wishing, and finding your path in life. By the end of the first chapter, I was almost certain this book was going to be five stars.

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