Achieve A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes Narrated By Dani Mitchell Paper Copy
everlovely and ohsotalented Carollyn Olson actually introduced me to A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes back in November, and her recommendation carries a lot of weight with me.
I can't explain why it took me so long to get around to reading it, but I am pleased to say that Dani Mitchell's transgender fantasy is everything Carollyn promised.
. . and just a bit more,
First of all, I love how the narrative was structured, We actually open with a brief, somewhat ominous snippet of the Greg's thoughts as he awakens from surgery, From there, the story leaps back in time to the beginning of his journey, but Mitchell continues to scatter those mysterious surgical scenes throughout the novel.
That structure adds a whole other dimension of anticipation to the story, leaving us to wonder precisely why he's been hospitalized.
Early on, the fact that his father is an abusive alcoholic leads one to wonder whether it will be a beating that will send Greg to the hospital, but little hints and clues give rise to even stranger worries later on, before ultimately revealing the truth.
I don't want to spoil any of the magic here, so I'm going limit myself to talking about the initial setup.
When we first meet Greg, we discover that he is a closet crossdresser, It's nothing sexual or fetishistic for him, just a means of finding comfort and destressing in an abusive home, He is smaller than most of the boys, leading him to be bullied, but he has some good friends and dreams of becoming a mechanic.
Eventually, he meets Kris, a beautiful young lesbian who becomes his best friend, Just when you think you know where the story is going, however, Kris disappears under suspicious circumstances, and Greg's life goes on without her for a couple of years.
Not long after Greg's dad discovers him dressed, and sets about destroying all his clothes and shoes, Kris suddenly reappears.
She seems to have one of those toogoodtobetrue story of a rich relative who took her in after her parents threw her out for being a lesbian, and it's at this point that the surgery snippets get a little more weird, with talk of tattoos and making clients very happy.
Greg does comes out to Kris as transsexual, but almost immediately there are some off hand comments from her aunt that add even more mystery to the situation, especially in light of how the surgical scenes are progressing.
That's all I will say on that, however, as discovering how and why the story develops should be up to the reader.
It's a carefully structured story that's full of drama, sorrow, and moments of indescribable happiness, Greg and Kris are such a perfect couple, you can't help but want them to have the biggest, best, most happilyeverafter in history.
There is such joy in their scenes together, such unrestrained happiness, that you can't help but fall in love with them.
As for the other characters, Greg's dad is pretty much the archetype of a drunken bully his mother is a surprisingly strong character, especially with her growth in the latter half of the book while Jennifer, Kris' aunt, is more of a plot device than a fullyfleshed character, but you'll wish you had an aunt like that as well.
A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes has its moments of darkness and sorrow, and does get quite ominous in parts, but you will come away from it with a smile on your face and a sweet little pitterpatter in your heart.
As published on sitelinkBending the Bookshelf I really enjoyed this story, Okay the pot wasn't new, but I cared about the characters Greg had had a terrible life, He was a loner, had never been intimate with a girl and his father was abusive to not only Greg, but his mother.
When his father discovered Greg liked to wear women's clothing, he became even more of a "dictator, " All that changed when Greg met Kris and Jenny,
"Kris was bursting with excitement as we went into the closet and picked out a few items, I chose a black pencil skirt with a white pull over sweater, blackinch heels and patterned black hose, The girls excused themselves and I quickly dressed, After what seemed like minutes, but was actually a half an hour, I opened the door and Jenny went to work.
When she finished I again was amazed at my own reflection,
I sat there staring at the mirror for a few moments before Jenny broke the silence,
“Hey I have an idea, why dont we go out to lunch”
I looked at Jenny with a frozen look on my face.
“Like this”
“Nobody will ever recognize you,” Jenny replied, I didnt think this was a good idea,
“Dont you realize how hot you look” Kris exclaimed, With that one comment I found the courage to do it,
From Author Dani Mitchell "While most of the story is fiction, some is VERY real, The abuse suffered by my Mom and my family, was very, very real, While the story has a far more different ending than real life, please, if you are aware of someone in an abusive relationship, don't just sit by and do nothing.
As a family, we were fortunate to not have a tragic outcome, but someone else may not be as lucky.
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