Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes

In our class, we read a book every month.  In the month of October we could choose to read any book.  I chose the book Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes by Denise Grover Swank.  This book is a crime mystery thriller.  The main character, Rose Gardner, is an adult with the ability to see into the future.  She calls them visions.  Once she has a vision, she has to blurt out what she sees.  People around her are baffled when she blurts things out.  Only her family knows about her visions and when she has one, people are skeptical as to how she knows these things that will happen in the future.  Rose has always been a “Mama’s girl.”  She is still living with her mom at age 24.  Her older sister convinces Rose to stand up to their mother.  Rose has a large argument with her that all the neighbors witnessed.  With her new found freedom, she makes a list of 29 things she wants to do that she could not do before.  She left the 29th spot blank for something else.  That afternoon, her mother was killed, lying on the sofa.  All the evidence led the police to believe that Rose killed her.  Her next door neighbor, Joe McAllister, had never talked to her before that day.  Suddenly Joe became her best friend and boyfriend.  No one except Joe could predict what would happen next.  Rose had a vision that she would die in five days.  Everything happened in those five days that would save her life.

I chose to read this book because it looked interesting.  I like mystery and suspense books.  This book definitely leaves you hanging on for more.  I would recommend it to people who like mystery and drama.  The book is very suspenseful with a love story twist.  I would rate this book 4 out of 5.

This book is mysterious.  In American culture, we tend to like thrillers, mysteries, and science fiction.  Many adults like to watch or read either comedies or thrillers.  As a whole, we are interested in these types of genres.  This book could also represent some of the corruption in our police system.  In the book, the police accuse Rose right away and do not consider other people who could have committed the crime.  In America right now, the police have been given a bad reputation because of some false accusations. In general, Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes is a good book of suspense and mystery.