Lucy Finn, Careful What You Wish For

Careful What You Wish For

Lucy Finn

Signet, Jun 2007, $6.99

ISBN: 0451221044

In Noxen, Pennsylvanian twenty-seven years old attorney Ravine Patton raises her infant son Brady by herself; the father Jake was a one night stand in remote Texas after a bad day with a client. One day inside her Diaper Genie she finds an odd bottle. When she touches the bottle, Gene the genie appears.

Gene is a bewitched Australian World War II pilot who has waited six decades for someone to free him from the bottle. Now if Ravine makes the three wishes he grants her, he can go home. However, as she considers what she wants, she watches the kind hearted Gene help her around the house without a wish and especially play with her child. As he begins to believe twenty-first century Pennsylvania is home as that is where his heart is, she begins to wish he would stay with them. If she uses the wishes up, he literally goes home, which they assume is 1940s Australia (before she is born); if she fails to make a wish, he remains a genie.

This warm whimsical romantic fantasy stars an intelligent female and a pragmatic kind hearted genie. Ravine and Gene make the tale fun enabling readers to wish that the caring hunk who called a bottle home for the past sixty plus years is the type of person that we all fall in love with.

Harriet Klausner