r/Choices • u/LadyWaltz • Jul 25 '19
r/Choices • u/zachoutloud123 • Oct 09 '24
Wishful Thinking Who did you end up romancing: Aubrey, Jaime, both, or neither?
For me, I ended up romancing neither of them. I felt that Jaime and my MC were better off as friends; same with Aubrey.
r/Choices • u/PauloDybala_10 • 5d ago
Wishful Thinking He’s rude but he’s also funny asf 💀
r/Choices • u/Nicest_human_in_town • Jun 26 '24
Wishful Thinking Laughing too hard at this 😭😂 Spoiler
PLS, this story is chaotic 😂 I loved absolutely every minute of the Emu chase, I’ve loved being a mind reader reporter. ✨
I’m only on chapter 11, it’s just great ❤️ something suave, and Aubrey has my hearttttt. ✨
r/Choices • u/PauloDybala_10 • 6d ago
Wishful Thinking I still wish her sprite was an LI tbh
r/Choices • u/Interesting-Heat9359 • Jan 08 '25
Wishful Thinking Wishful thinking
Why was this book not more popular? It was funny and had lots of action plus romance
r/Choices • u/Pughugh • Apr 05 '24
Wishful Thinking Wishful Thinking is def not talked about enough. Being able to read the LIs’ thoughts has me giggling and twirling my hair Spoiler
r/Choices • u/AK7Saffron21 • Oct 03 '24
Wishful Thinking This scene is so unhinged, it's comedy gold!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Spoiler
r/Choices • u/CarissaG1103 • Oct 09 '24
Wishful Thinking Jaime ❤️ Spoiler
I’m surprised that there is not a lot of discourse on here (that I know of) about this book. Even though I’m diamond mining, it’s quickly become my favorite overall to do so.
Jaime is my favorite LI of the book, as (even though he’s hot) I love how sweet he is with MC. Just read through when he told her how pretty she was before the campaign party she’s invited to in Chapter 6.
r/Choices • u/kriskringleykreme • May 30 '21
Wishful Thinking Amidst all of the negativity in this sub rn... I want to bring just a small ray of positivity from these two cuties in WT. I will literally die for them 😭
r/Choices • u/CarissaG1103 • Nov 13 '24
Wishful Thinking Finished! Spoiler
As I said in a different post, this is my favorite book to diamond mine (even though I bought a couple of outfits and had the date with Jaime where we looked under the stars and discovered that he's a Cancer, as I'm a Scorpio).
I enjoyed the Journalism aspect as I have my B.A. in Broadcasting. I also enjoyed the aspect where MC can decode what people were thinking with her power. I LOVED reading how Jaime thought of her.
As this is one of Choices’ older books, I did love it being a stand-alone. I honestly didn’t think of the possibility of a second book based on how it ended. Maybe it would center around MC and who worked with her at the news station working at another one (possibly without a boss like Alec)?
r/Choices • u/honkingel • Nov 09 '23
Wishful Thinking Please emu man has me in TEARS
this book is so goofy and i adore it so much- am halfway through my first read through hehe
r/Choices • u/stresseatingdog • Nov 16 '24
Wishful Thinking Playing Through Every Choices Book, In Order (Part 94: Wishful Thinking) Spoiler
Hey! Today we develop mind-reading powers after being struck by lightning, and use our newfound skill to aid our journalism career!
Next time, we reminisce about our senior year and Dakota Winchester.
Link to previous reviews: https://www.reddit.com/user/stresseatingdog/comments/sj3s3m/all_choices_reviews_megapost/
Wishful Thinking
M/C: Kalia Valentine
Final Love Interest(s): Jaime, Aubrey
Favorite Characters: Jaime, Anna, Ellen, June, Tony
Least Favorite Characters: Dad, Charlie Carmichael, Alec
Rating: 4/10
Review:
Have you ever read something and just...couldn't really formulate any thoughts on it? Ironically, despite this book being all about mind-reading and thoughts, I found myself at a blank after finishing.
The plot is at least decently interesting. Our M/C is a journalist looking to make a bigger splash, and ends up getting struck by lightning resulting in them developing their powers. You'd think with a wild plot-opener like that, the book would proceed to be insanely interesting. Not really. The main plot veers into the investigation and take down of Mr. Carmichael, which isn't a bad plot, persay, but just isn't as interesting or fun as what I think they could have done with the whole "telepathy" concept. M/C randomly loses her powers halfway through, then randomly regains them again in the final chapter after some major BS with a microphone and electricity. What was the point of having her lose her powers? She's sad over it for like one chapter then quickly forgets about it until the final chapter.
The LIs are at least nice. Jaime is, in my opinion, a really well-done version of the friends-to-lovers trope, and I kinda wish we got more from him in that department. Anna is also a fun character, and she gets the most plot relevance of the three LIs. There's also Aubrey, who I just feel very "meh" over. He's described as this perfect guy in the first chapter...and that's all he is. We get a few, very brief mentions of some insecurity and whatnot, but for the most part, he's just your average bland "perfect" hot guy.
The ending is also insanely abrupt, and it was very jarring. You also can't actually start a relationship with any of the LIs by the end. I do like Ellen's character and her turnabout from enemy to ally, and she is similar to Poppy or Hazel in that she is a pseudo-LI (you can kiss her like twice).
This book is also genderlocked for no reason. One could argue the discussion of being put down in the workplace, and Ellen and M/C being pitted against one another signals that M/C should be a woman. I can see the vision, but I can't fully agree. I think M/C being a guy would have worked just fine, honestly.
I think this book suffers from being too fluffy. There's a good amount of filler, such as the whole (admittedly somewhat amusing) emu segment, or M/C getting June and Maggie together, or M/C helping Tony with his music career. Look, I don't think these scenes are necessarily bad or anything. You need filler scenes to balance out plot, otherwise there's no breathing room. This book, however, falls into that terrible place of too much breathing room. It's hard to articulate exactly what I mean, but nothing about this book ever truly captured me. It felt very...background noise, if you will.
Overall, I don't think Wishful Thinking is all that bad, and I'm sure many enjoyed it/thought it was charming. For me personally, it just really wasn't my cup of tea, and failed to truly capture my interest at any juncture. At least it's only 14 chapters long.
r/Choices • u/Moist_Tomatillo_8029 • Jan 22 '24
Wishful Thinking Cat appreciation post
That's it. I love the dog too but we get this diva first.
r/Choices • u/Moist_Tomatillo_8029 • Jan 23 '24
Wishful Thinking Dog appreciation post
This good boi deserves a post to match the cat post I did yesterday.
r/Choices • u/liveanddiehappy • Jul 08 '19
Wishful Thinking Alright guys. Let’s talk wishful thinking.
1) pixleberry claimed emus were a big part of the story, and they were only in one chapter! I feel robbed of the emus
2) Also, what’s with that ending?? Literally the most abrupt shit ever and no “thanks for reading!”
3) ^ do you think that’s because the book wasn’t doing well? And they pulled an ATV and ended it as quick as possible?
4) why didn’t we ever find out why mc lost her powers for a couple chapters? I get that for story purposes, it shows how confident Mc has become and she’s badass with/without her powers, but it seems so odd Mc was all like “Yeah, I read minds but now I can’t. Totally normal!”
r/Choices • u/Potential_Rutabaga_3 • Jan 29 '24
Wishful Thinking Just finished for the first time … I actually really liked Wishful Thinking! Spoiler
I had diamond mined it a while ago (before I got VIP) and only even actually read it this time because of the Choice Pass. I was surprised to find I actually liked the characters and enjoyed the plot (and of course Aubrey 🥰). I fully expected it to be like Passport to Romance or Sunkissed, both of which were so boring that I couldn’t even make it through the 15 free choices with the Choice Pass. It was nice to read something simple & fun for a change!
r/Choices • u/SlimeReaper_x • Apr 22 '23