This charming, whimsical romance offers a delightful escape into a world where fantasy meets heartfelt longing. Anna Benoit, a romantic at heart and a house cleaner by trade, suddenly finds herself living the life she's only dreamed of—married to the enigmatic Max Barone, the man she’s secretly adored. But as the story unfolds, it gently asks: what happens when your fantasy doesn’t quite match reality?

The magical realism adds a fairy tale shimmer, while the audiobook format beautifully brings Anna’s emotions and journey to life. It's sweet, occasionally poignant, and totally satisfying. Perfect for fans of dreamy love stories with just the right twist of magic. The perfect read if you're in the mood for something light, fun, and a little bit enchanting.

I received a complimentary copy from NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving my review.

It is official, I will read anything that Sarah Ready writes. I absolutely love her books and haven't met one of her books that I did not enjoy. I have enjoyed and fell in love with every novel in this series and Wished was no different.

It was filled with hope, banter, and love. The enemies to lovers connection was spot on and not in an overly done way. This is usually not my favorite trope but worked so well.

Thank you to NetGalley, Swift & Lewis Publishing, LLC and Sarah Ready for my gifted audiobook copy. The narrators were fantastic for this reading and really brought the story to live. You could feel the emotion in every line.

This was another beautiful love story in this wonderful series by this author. She never disappoints and I adored that ending. Also, the narrators were fantastic all throughout the 4 books.

A magical and sweet romance that had me swooning from the start! This is the fourth installment in the Ghosted series that centers around a maid named Anna who works at the mansion that Max owns.

I listened to the audio and thought the format was so fun!

*many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the gifted copy for review

Romance books are always great! I loved all the books in this series, this was probably my least favorite. But with that said I did enjoy it. The narrators were fantastic in bringing the story to life and giving the characters their happily ever after.

Sarah Ready books are consistently 4 stars for me. I don't know if she's got a formula she uses or what, but every time, they're good.

I have been in a contemporary romance FUNK for the last 9 months, having only read 3 romances, and those were out of force. So picking this up was kind of hard. I was hoping my funk didn't ruin this book or taint the story in anyway because it's not fair to judge a book that I would have normally enjoyed on my bad attitude, but color me surprised (but not really because it's Sarah Ready), but I thoroughly enjoyed this and had a great time reading it. And I think it actually kicked me out of my reading slump - not necessarily my contemp. romance slump, but my overall reading slump I have also found myself in (there's a lot going on over here).

This is fun. It's the book version of so many romantic comedy movies from the 2000s.

I love this entire series and the vibes they bring. Truly if you love any kind of Freaky Friday, Just Like Heaven, Maid in Manhattan movie from back in the day, you'll eat any of these books up. And shout out to Sarah Ready for publishing 4 of them within like 18 months.

Claps all around.

Once again, I read this series out of order. Still haven't read books one and two. But continuing on from three. My review is much the same as it was for the third book. I enjoy this authors writing. But I've noticed that certain libraries on Libby don't carry this author in ebook or audiobook form. That's surprising to me honestly. This author feels like she should be up there right along with Emily Henry and Ashley Poston. Again, I would recommend this title to others. Great story and great writing.

Wished is a very cute, magical romance. Anna is the cleaner that Max never notices, but after she makes a marriage wish everything changes. I liked that both Max and Anna are aware of what's actually happening, they are not acutally married, but htey have memories of a marriage that happened after the wish. It gives them an opportunity to see how it could be between them. So it's a romance in reverse, Max, in seeing a married life with Anna actually starts seeing her. Interesting premise that had me invested and turning the pages.

This was such a passionate swoony whirlwind of a story.
Anna’s life is about to change in an epic way, but is she prepared for what will happen?
Anna has worked for Max for years, she fell in love with him, even though he doesn’t know her.
Anna makes a wish, but the last thing she expects is for it to actually come true.
Anna & Max go on such an amazing adventure getting to really know the depths of each others souls, falling in love, while also trying return things back to “normal”
They are pushed to their limits, they fall even deeper, but can they make it back and if so, will their love still burn bright?
This was so full of passion, hope, healing & love.
I am so glad that Max got his HEA, that he was able to find a passionate all consuming love.

I really enjoy Sarah Ready's books. This one fell a little flat for me and I had trouble investing in this relationship. I will still pick up her next novel. This one just was not for me.

Thank you to NetGalley for the chance to read an early copy of this book. I love Sarah Ready and her books so much, I really do. This one...kinda fell flat for me though. Will that stop me from picking up her next book? Absolutely not. Will this deter me from recommending the book or her as an author? NO. She is a wonderful writer and her books are so much fun.

I"ve read the other book in the series, however I had a hard time getting into this book. While the narrator set a good pace, I still couldn't really feel connected to the story and characters. There were some problematic aspects to the love story/relationship btw the main characters.

Book number 4 in the ghosted series although you do not have to have read the previous novels to catch up with this one.
A pleasantly enjoyable novel, which I enjoyed via audiobook, I liked the narrator and the pace of the novel.

A lighthearted novel which centres around Anna who is a maid at the mansion of Max whom she secretly adores. By chance Anna makes a wish that Max would fall in love with her and amazingly this wish comes true. However not all goes to plan and Anna feels like her wish for love was not genuinely felt by Max and tries to reverse her wish

5/5 ⭐️
4.5/5 🎧

Every time I start a book by Sarah, I think I know what I am getting into. Every time.. I am wrong. This was my least favorite book of the ghosted series but I still loved it! There were so many surprises and worries that I had for Anna. Overall I loved that she just wanted Max to be happy, even if it meant that she wasn't.

I had a hard time really loving this and buying into the relationship. For all the reasons that the fmc had, but I just didn't buy it in the end, so it still felt forced.

The audiobook was well done, I just had one point that confused me. It seems like the our female lead has grown up in Europe, but is voiced with an American accent, it was a minor itch to my brain.

Reading this book and trying to articulate my thoughts has put me in a “reading slump” as many would call it.

It just wasn’t for me. I didn’t like any characters. I think our main female character having a physical relationship with the man that she wished into loving her felt icky and borderline nonconsensual…

I will say the way the author wrote our setting was beautiful and so full of life. One star is for the beautiful descriptions.

Thank you to the publisher for the arc through NetGalley! All opinions are my own honest opinions.

Just like Switched, this was a fun story with such an interesting and different turn of events, with a wish changing memories and feelings. I really liked the audiobook, I feel like these types of stories really fit well with audio format, and the narrator did a great job. The characters had a good backstory and personality, and maybe it develops a bit to fast, but I still really liked it, beginning to end.

"You made a wish on a necklace to see what it was like to live in my house instead of clean it?"

"You want to make love?'
"I want to make you come so hard you forget your name."

"But if I forget you... isn't that another sort of prison? I'll be sentenced to never knowing what I'm missing."

"I may have been able to pretend I didn't miss him. But I've not been able to pretend I don't love him."

With her ability to create magical romantic worlds, romance author Sarah Ready has written the steamy swoon worthy Wished and made our love story dreams come true.

Anna has cleaned handsome jewelry magnate Max's chateau for years. He still doesn't know her name but she knows everything about him. She cares for the books he loves, makes sure his home is pristine and loves him alone. When she finds the heirloom necklace that his family purports makes wishes come true she jokingly wishes Max would love her too. She wakes up and it's 7 years later and she's married to Max. "What do you do when all your wishes come true?" Is it real love when he didn't have a choice?

It was my first time experiencing voice actress Amanda Ronconi and her talent. Her Anna was heartbreakingly vulnerable and yet fierce. Voice actor Will Watt was swoony, sexy and scene stealing at times.

Wished is book 4 of the writer's Ghosted series. They are stand-alones though characters make fun cameos throughout the series. Ghosted, Switched and Fated (where we first meet Max) are just as magically romantic as the heart stopping Wished. It's the love story we all wish for filled with hope, sacrifice and love.

I received a free copy ofthis book/audiobook from the publishers via #NetGalley for a fair and honest review. All opinions are my own.

***Listened Aug. 20-25, 2024
Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to listen to the E-ARC for an honest review.
My true rating for this book is 3.5/5 ⭐️.
Spice rating: 3.5/5 🌶️
While I thoroughly enjoyed the final 10-12 chapters of this book, I had a hard time wanting to continue listening to the audiobook for the first little bit - until the first event of the story happened - but once I got past that I started to enjoy it a bit more.
I thoroughly enjoyed the enemies to lovers and grumpy/sunshine tropes, but found that the romance was too mushy for my liking and the storyline felt like it was missing something.
Would I have picked this book up in a bookstore? Probably not, but I’m happy I gave it a chance.
Will it make it in to my top 5 faves for 2024? Unfortunately not, but it will not be on the bottom of the list.

I feel so grateful to have been given the opportunity to listen to my second early copy of a Sarah Ready book to review!!

Wished pulled me in from the immediate start! I really liked the story starting with Max's POV, his confusion to his 'wife' waiting for him outside of his office was such a good hook. And then we got to go back in time from and get to have the same experience from Anna's point of view, which helped the reader/listener piece together the information we did not have at the beginning. I also really enjoyed, as we got deeper in the story, how Max began falling for Anna while piecing together what was going on and how to get back to their timeline. And for Anna, she got to experience the real Max that she had only seen from a distance, who didn't necessarily meet her dreamt up idea of him, but who proved that who he actually is is someone worthy of love.

The back half to the near ending BROKE. MY. LITTLE. HEART! When Anna wakes up the next morning in Paris to experience Max's wish, that was genuinely very sad to experience alongside her. But proves that if you love something, sometimes the hardest thing you can do is let it go. But the ending makes up for that!!! The grocery store scene? The confessions at the end? The searching for each other when they didn't think the other was?

I truly loved this book and the plot of the story. It was unlike something I had listened to before, but will be seeking out similar stories because of it!