Review: Cool premise
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2013
This is the first, excellent installment of a promising series called "The Wish Granters". The premise is that people who kind of, but don't really die, wind up in Transition. Here, they are paired up and given assignments. One possibility is to become a Wish Granter--self-explanatory!The woman in her late twenties who is to be granted a wish, and therefore her second chance, is called Shelly. She has a stack of overdue bills in her bottom drawer, and a boyfriend who is never there for her. She tries to beat the lottery, using a probability algorithm that doesn't work. So, if anyone were ever in need of a Wish Granter, it's her. As I read the early chapters of this novella, I was expecting a rather sentimental story in the vein of the Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis". However, this turned out to be smart and funny, and not predictable.