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Savannah River #2
Wish Taker
Be careful what they make you wish for . . .
Nadia is on the Wishmaster’s bad side, which means she’s been given a nearly impossible steal a potent wish from actor and notorious loner Ethan Lovell. While Nadia is no stranger to stealing wishes from celebrities, she’s admittedly grateful to team up with rock star Miles Hunter, who has gone from adversary to ally. Once she completes this job, she’ll have the wish she needs to find out the truth behind her husband’s murder—and maybe how to bring him back.
However, Nadia and Miles aren’t the only ones vying for Ethan’s wish. Another enemy from the wishing world is also on the hunt, and he’ll go to extreme lengths to get what he wants.
What’s worse, the Wishmaster's increasing paranoia is making her more dangerous than ever. Nadia fears something is rotten in Savannah, especially once she discovers that the Wishmaster intends to use Ethan’s wish for herself—a wish so powerful that whoever spends it could change the wishing world forever.
As Nadia tries to decipher the Wishmaster’s plans before it’s too late, things with Miles grow even more complicated, and Nadia fears that the choices she’ll have to make will tear her apart.
Content spousal death, gun violence
Nadia is on the Wishmaster’s bad side, which means she’s been given a nearly impossible steal a potent wish from actor and notorious loner Ethan Lovell. While Nadia is no stranger to stealing wishes from celebrities, she’s admittedly grateful to team up with rock star Miles Hunter, who has gone from adversary to ally. Once she completes this job, she’ll have the wish she needs to find out the truth behind her husband’s murder—and maybe how to bring him back.
However, Nadia and Miles aren’t the only ones vying for Ethan’s wish. Another enemy from the wishing world is also on the hunt, and he’ll go to extreme lengths to get what he wants.
What’s worse, the Wishmaster's increasing paranoia is making her more dangerous than ever. Nadia fears something is rotten in Savannah, especially once she discovers that the Wishmaster intends to use Ethan’s wish for herself—a wish so powerful that whoever spends it could change the wishing world forever.
As Nadia tries to decipher the Wishmaster’s plans before it’s too late, things with Miles grow even more complicated, and Nadia fears that the choices she’ll have to make will tear her apart.
Content spousal death, gun violence
494 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 6, 2023
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January 28, 2025
So so good
The writing was amazing and well thought out and kept me on my toes as far as the plot and outcomes.
The writing was amazing and well thought out and kept me on my toes as far as the plot and outcomes.
May 20, 2024
Wish Taker is a great ride full of twisty-turny plotting, a will-they/won't-they romance, a great list of memorable characters (good guys and bad guys, and a surprising number of gray characters) and a whole healthy dose of family drama between three generations of strong-willed women. Did I mention it also has a great sense of place, with Savannah oozing out of every page?
But what I love the most about this book is that Nadia, the book's protagonist, is so very-well realized. She's a far more complex character than I've encountered in urban fantasy (or fantasy in general) before--she's conflicted and uncertain sometimes but also confident and strong in other ways and times, and she has a heart that wants more things than are possible. She's a woman who wants to be strong and invulnerable and struggles to recognize sometimes that she still needs others, someone who has a strong memory for both the pains and joys of life, and who is realistically torn between her family, love, and her own internal hopes and desires. She's a real person, in other words, a character who just doesn't exist to move the plot along, but who exists to define the plot, and who sometimes seems to exist almost outside it. She's a fascinating character and one you can't help but fall in love with.
On the plot side of thing, if you've read the first in the series (Wish Hunter), you'll definitely want to read this one, but be forewarned that you're going to be desperate for the third one, as Wish Taker ends in a massive cliffhanger!
But what I love the most about this book is that Nadia, the book's protagonist, is so very-well realized. She's a far more complex character than I've encountered in urban fantasy (or fantasy in general) before--she's conflicted and uncertain sometimes but also confident and strong in other ways and times, and she has a heart that wants more things than are possible. She's a woman who wants to be strong and invulnerable and struggles to recognize sometimes that she still needs others, someone who has a strong memory for both the pains and joys of life, and who is realistically torn between her family, love, and her own internal hopes and desires. She's a real person, in other words, a character who just doesn't exist to move the plot along, but who exists to define the plot, and who sometimes seems to exist almost outside it. She's a fascinating character and one you can't help but fall in love with.
On the plot side of thing, if you've read the first in the series (Wish Hunter), you'll definitely want to read this one, but be forewarned that you're going to be desperate for the third one, as Wish Taker ends in a massive cliffhanger!
February 16, 2024
Dec of 2024 is too far away
I really can't wait for Dec 2024 to come around. That ending was insane and I need that HEA for everyone! There's so much tension and excitement throughout this book. I adore the characters and their relationship and the story is so unique I've never read anything like it. Honestly fantastic work from these authors
I really can't wait for Dec 2024 to come around. That ending was insane and I need that HEA for everyone! There's so much tension and excitement throughout this book. I adore the characters and their relationship and the story is so unique I've never read anything like it. Honestly fantastic work from these authors
April 2, 2024
This is one of the best stories I've read in a long time. I'm going to be counting down to the next one releases in December
July 31, 2026
Nadia and Miles end up on another crazy adventure. Nadia has the ability to head hop into other people's minds while Miles still has his guitar god and find anything wish. They end up on a movie set to try and still a wish from Ethan Lovell who was supposedly supposed to have a very potent wish, which it turned out that he did not. It turned out that it was his stunt double who has the very potent wish inside him, which Kaleena wants for herself and the Atlanta Wishmaster Cadwell wants too. Once Kaleena gets the wish for herself and she uses it to be able to communicate with the wishing tree, she goes a little crazy. While Nadia got her second wish to be able to communicate with the dead. Which Nadia ends up hope stealing Kaleena's first wish to be able to talk to her husband and find out who kills him, which she did. They end up going to a Parley that Cadwell wants to set up to make it right for the damages that had happen to one of his employees. During that he has Kaleena's Head Quarters raid, so he can take it over. When a fight breaks out at the Parley Kaleena, Val, Miles, and Nadia get away from the fight. Miles almost runs over Basha. Cadwell ends up burning all of the wishes that they find in Kaleena's building. They end up back at HQ in the cellar where she uses their mom's and her own to open a portal to another place.
Hero Bowen and Jordan Riley Swan really know how to write a book and keep the attention of the audience that they are writing too. I so cannot wait to ride the third book in this series and find out what happens to Miles, Nadia, and Kaleena.
Hero Bowen and Jordan Riley Swan really know how to write a book and keep the attention of the audience that they are writing too. I so cannot wait to ride the third book in this series and find out what happens to Miles, Nadia, and Kaleena.
July 28, 2024
Liked this one too! However, I think Basha is one of the most insufferable characters I’ve ever had to read about. So incredibly selfish. Looking forward to the final piece of the trilogy.
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