Friday, December 30, 2022

Review: The Wishing Season

The Wishing Season The Wishing Season by Denise Hunter
My rating: 💛💛💛💛

PJ and Cole met with a bang and ever since the first meet, they were in a fight to further their own hopes and dreams. Just like the first meet, their connection was just as fast and not easy to ignore.

I adored Cole. He had a very difficult background and it played a big part of who he is today and why he didn’t think twice helping PJ when she needed help.

I love Mama Jo and the close nit McKinley family, but in this story, I did get frustrated with their meddling and how Mama Jo judged the situation and made her own conclusion on face value. However, she did redeem herself when she realized her mistake and apologised.

Both PJ and Cole had to overcome insecurities based on life events and trust God to truly know what they deserve.

Denise Hunter has a talent of taking difficult subjects and writing beautiful, sweet stories which not only touches the heartache, but also the hope and the victory over these challenges. In book 1, it was alcoholism, book two rape, book 3 the foster system and book 4 it is child abuse.



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About the book:


Living side-by-side, a fledgling chef and a big-hearted contractor find a delicious attraction.

Trouble is, their chemistry could spoil their dreams.

Spirited PJ McKinley has the touch when it comes to food. Her dream of opening her own restaurant is just one building short of reality. So when a Chapel Springs resident offers her beloved ancestral home to the applicant with the best plan for the house, PJ believes it’s a contest she was meant to win.

Contractor Cole Evans is confident, professional, and swoon-worthy—but this former foster kid knows his life could have turned out very differently. When Cole discovers the contest, he believes his home for foster kids in transition has found its saving grace. All he has to do is convince the owner that an out-of-towner with a not-for-profit enterprise is good for the community.

But when the eccentric philanthropist sees PJ and Cole’s proposals, she makes an unexpected decision: the pair will share the house for a year to show what their ideas are made of. Now, with Cole and the foster kids upstairs and PJ and the restaurant below, day-to-day life has turned into out-and-out competition—with some seriously flirtatious hallway encounters on the side. Turns out in this competition, it’s not just the house on the line, it’s their hearts.


About the author:



Denise Hunter is the award-winning author of more than 40 novels, three of which have been adapted into Hallmark movies.


Denise writes heartwarming, small-town romances, peopled with layered characters who have real-life issues. Her readers enjoy the vicarious thrill of falling in love and the promise of a happily-ever-after sigh as they savor the final pages of her books.

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