Helena Hunting

Make a Wish

Petaco

I didn't like it. He had too much baggage and acted irrationally most of the time. FMC was a bit of a pushover but did eventually stand up for herself. Also, an emotional affair is totally cheating. She did Chad dirty by doing that to him. I don't like how they made it "ok" a few days later. He was happy with her and was about to move in. She gave him a key to her apartment. 

I think the age of the daughter was developmentally around 5. She did not act like a nine year old. She came off as much younger than she was. I think writing her as 5 or maybe even 6 would have made her behaviors seem more age appropriate. Admittedly, its been a while since I have been around 9 year olds. She was a good kid, which was nice.

Harley Spark was thriving as nanny to widower, Gavin Rhodes' daughter, Peyton until the night she almost kissed Gavin, and he moved away.  Harley was afraid that her growing feelings for Gavin might have pushed him to leave, but she had no choice but to move on.  Now, as she tries to find a place in Spark House, the boutique hotel she owns with her sisters, Harley hopes that someday she will find love and make a family like her sisters have.  She is surprised when at a birthday party she is hosting at Spark House, Gavin and Peyton are guests and they tell her that they have moved back to town.  She and Peyton form an immediate connection, but it takes Gavin a little longer to find his feelings for Harley.

Make a Wish is a good ending to the Spark House Trilogy.  The third sister finally gets her story, and it is filled with emotion.  This book ends up being pretty heavy as it deals a lot with grief and loss.  There are a few laugh-out-loud moments, but the story would have benefited by having a few more.  Also, there is so much time spent on the relationship between Harley and Peyton, that the relationship between Harley and Gavin gets short-changed, leaving the book feeling more like women's fiction than a romance.  Overall, however, Make a Wish brings together all of the couples from the trilogy and creates a satisfying conclusion to all of their stories. 

Lynn Braden

Harley Spark was thriving as nanny to widower, Gavin Rhodes' daughter, Peyton until the night she almost kissed Gavin, and he moved away.  Harley was afraid that her growing feelings for Gavin might have pushed him to leave, but she had no choice but to move on.  Now, as she tries to find a place in Spark House, the boutique hotel she owns with her sisters, Harley hopes that someday she will find love and make a family like her sisters have.  She is surprised when at a birthday party she is hosting at Spark House, Gavin and Peyton are guests and they tell her that they have moved back to town.  She and Peyton form an immediate connection, but it takes Gavin a little longer to find his feelings for Harley.

Make a Wish is a good ending to the Spark House Trilogy.  The third sister finally gets her story, and it is filled with emotion.  This book ends up being pretty heavy as it deals a lot with grief and loss.  There are a few laugh-out-loud moments, but the story would have benefited by having a few more.  Also, there is so much time spent on the relationship between Harley and Peyton, that the relationship between Harley and Gavin gets short-changed, leaving the book feeling more like women's fiction than a romance.  Overall, however, Make a Wish brings together all of the couples from the trilogy and creates a satisfying conclusion to all of their stories. 

Great story! I really enjoyed this new edition to the series. My favourite thing about these books is the relationship between the sisters. I wish that there had been more of that in this one, but the lack of it was understandable due to the new places the older sisters are at in their lives. I was frustrated by some of the problems that arose in the story, but I found the way that they were sorted out to be very satisfying. 4 stars for making me tear up a bit at the end with the epilogue.