Review | As You Wish by Danika Brown

Honey Braxton doesn’t break rules, she enforces them. As an auditor for the Bureau of Magical Compliance, she specializes in wishing wells. Her audits are thorough, her judgments final, and her detachment absolute.

Her latest assignment lands her on the orchard of Ethan Hale, a skeptical single father who has no time for magic, or the cheerful meddling of his three children.

When Honey discovers that the kids used the family’s long-forgotten wishing well to keep the farm afloat, she knows her revoke the unauthorized wishes, file her report, and walk away.

But something about Ethan and his family tugs at her tightly guarded heart and Honey finds her once-clear rules beginning to blur.

With her boss pressuring her to close the case, and the orchard hanging in the balance, Honey faces a uphold the rules and risk destroying the fragile happiness this family has found—or break them, jeopardizing the career she’s spent her life building.

And in the midst of it all, she finds herself considering the one thing she swore she never making a wish of her own.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

When you combine a grumpy dad, three mischievous daughters, a straight laced rule following auditor, a baby goat and Cluck Norris – you know it’s going to be a fun time. What surprised me about what I thought was going to be a very light hearted and magical rom com, was all the hard hitting emotional gut punches. Honey and Ethan are so well developed it’s hard not to feel like they are real people, with their individual life issues – Ethan with his struggle to keep everything together for his three girls (but stubbornly refusing to look for help) and Honey with her plans and determination for her life to follow a very specific path.

They definitely clash, for a number of reasons, but they come to understand each other. There are lots of misunderstandings, flares of temper and hardships – but there are a lot of beautiful moments too. The relationships that are built, not just between Honey and Ethan, but the town itself, really set the stage for what I hope are a number of upcoming books.

As You Wish came out today! Make sure to pick it up!

Happy reading!

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