What if your fortunes really came true?

Once upon a time, Millie, Nora, and Bea were best friends who loved slumber parties, exploring their Manhattan neighborhood, and making fortune tellers with their Magic Markers. Now, in the summer before seventh grade, they haven’t spoken in over a year—thanks to a big fight, the pandemic shutting down their school, and each girl moving away for different reasons. The girls routinely check each other’s social media, but none of them can muster the courage to reach out, even if they might want to.

Then their long-ago paper fortune tellers start popping up in the most unexpected places. The fortunes carry some eerily accurate wisdom for each girl: Your future is hidden in your past. Hold on to the memories. Go back to where you started. Could this be the push the girls need to reconnect and reunite? Or is the gap between them too wide to mend?

I liked the overall premise of this one, three best friends who have a falling out and then find themselves on diverging paths, then discovering their old fortune tellers which seem to have some magical power. I thought this would be a nice mix of realistic fiction and whimsy and it definitely had some aspects of that but there some elements that didn’t quite get there for me. I really wanted the girls to be more individual, but in some ways they didn’t seem to have unique personalities. That being said I did enjoy the themes, tweens and teens are always going through friendship break ups etc and this displayed them going through the fights, their time apart and them coming back together once they’ve grown a bit. I will say as someone who made many a fortune teller as a kid I enjoyed seeing them represented and the whimsy was a nice touch.

Happy reading!