WOWWWWW did I love this book!
I listened on Audiobook and the narrators were brilliant.
There were moments when the timeline caught me off guard and it took me a minute to figure out where we were and what was happening, but by the end it wrapped up so beautifully.

I found myself holding my breath and hoping that each new turn in the story would bring the resolution I was waiting for, and I've never experienced that in a romance book like I did with this one!

and I've never wanted to go to Paris, but suddenly it's moving up to the top of my list!

I enjoyed listening to Wished most of it narrated by Amanda Ronconi and the pro- end epilogue by Will Watt. I found his very deep voice a little creepy.
Anna is a cleaner in Max’ chateau and fell in love with him the first time she saw him. He is blissfully unaware of her. She then makes a wish which comes true, but will it work?
I loved the moral dilemma Anna finds herself in.
An enjoyable, light listen.

Looks like I'm in the minority here (after looking over the many 5-star reviews) but I just could no get into this audiobook and it ended up in my Did Not Finish pile. I did not care for the narrators voices at all - both voices rubbed me the wrong way so much that I could not get into the storyline. I liked the description but the story, with those two narrators, was just lacking for me..

thank you so much to netgalley for gifting me an early copy of the audiobook! all opinions are my own!

someone please explain to me why i became so addicted to this series even tho i haven't started it from book one 😂😂
i was super excited to read about Max's story after reading about him in book 3 and knowing i needed him to be happy. and oh my goodness, this book delivered! he kept his coolness while trying to figure out why would a girl who cleaned his house for three years wished to be married to him 😍 her point of view was amazing, i loved how the story changed and the small detail that it was Max who remembered most of their "love story", but whaaaaat omg when the plot thickened and i started to get anxious as to how this would get resolved 😱😱 their flaws were there and so was their wish to be loved, and i love how they both treated love as something super different but similar at the same time. it made me gasp and yell and swoon, exactly what i wanted. my only complain was the fast pace but that didn't make me like it less.
both narrators did an excellent job, and after hearing the male narrator i wish Max would've had a POV as well. i'm so in love with this series and now probably would be a good time to read the first two books 😉😂

And again- I wasn’t disappointed! What a beautiful story Sarah Ready wrote!
I think I’ll never get tired of those romances!

I absolutely loved this book! I dont think I've ever read or heard of anything with a similar concept.
This story is about a house cleaner named Anna who makes a wish that she was married to her boss, Max, and that he loved her. Immediately after making the wish, she takes it back when she starts to really think about how crazy that would be. But there are no backsies in wish making. What follows is how everything is affected by her wish.
I really liked Anna. She did everything in her power to make sure the people around her were loved and cared for. I think she was a little bogged down by life and just trying to survive. Her wish made her see everything in a different light and changed her goals, hopes, and dreams.
I honestly wasn't a huge fan of Max when the story started. But my opinion of him changed fairly quickly. Anna's wish also caused him to reevaluate and change his hopes and dreams.
This is a part of a series (which I haven't read), but I didn't have any trouble following the story. A Fiona was mentioned a few times, so I looked it up, and her story is the one before this. I will definitely be checking out the other books in this series.
I listened to the audio book, which was narrated by Amanda Ronconi and Will Watt. I thought both narrators did an excellent job. A large majority of the book is narrated by Amanda. She has a good pace and helped me picture the story without having to see the words. He did not have a lot of chapters, but Will's part, especially with his accent, was - chef's kiss.
I highly recommend checking this book out. It's not a paranormal or supernatural romance. The wish making and receiving is more like a lucky penny type thing. It's not a witches and wizard type of story.

I really enjoyed this book. It made me think back on all the wishes I have made growing up and thinking about what my life would be like today if any of those had come true. I loved Max and I think Anna is adorable. Their romance was an easy one to listen to especially with the dual narration. It was a quick read!

Wished is a cute, fluffy, slightly spicy story of magical realism and romance. It gave me 13 Going on 30 and Cinderella mashup vibes, and I enjoyed it! The story and the audio were a great palette cleanser and little escape.

Max is your classic millionaire @sshole, but it took a slap from reality...or is it?...to get him to realize what's important. Anna has been his employee for years, and in love with him for just as long, but she feels invisible. It takes a wish on a magical piece of jewelry to set them both on a collision course with fate...and maybe love. The story itself felt a little too insta-love on Anna's part, but given that it's a story of magical realism, it wasn't outside the realm of possibility. Otherwise it was sweet, entertaining, funny, with just a dash of steamy.

Will's delivery is, as always, excellent. His voice is incredibly versatile and molds itself well to a variety of personality traits, and his portrayal of Max did not fall short of that. Amanda was new to me, but she did a great job as well in her personification of Anna.

Many of us believed when young that closing our eyes while blowing out birthday candles might make our wishes come true. That conceit is nourished and amplified in Sarah Ready's newest book. Anna's grown-up life is not what she would have wished for as a child, but she still lets her imagination run wild, especially when she's cleaning house for Jewelry company scion, Max Barone. How perfect it would be to be married to him and have him love her. This imaginative tale takes us from Geneva to Paris to the Côte d'Azur, and it's replete with luscious gastronomic and cultural delights. All of Ms. Ready's books are a bit far-fetched, but they all manage to persuade the reader that maybe the unlikely could be possible. This latest in her "Ghosted" series imagines how wishes can come true if they're meant to be, especially where true love is involved. I liked this book less than Fated, its immediate and truly captivating predecessor, but it was still a fun romp through make-believe.

I am so excited we finally get Max’s story!

Wished is the 4th book in the Ghosted series but it can be read as a standalone.

Anna is a romantic, believing in love at first sight. She knows first hand the feeling the moment she saw Max Barone. Unfortunately he doesn’t even know she exists, let alone her name. One night while cleaning Max’s estate, she makes a wish based around love. The next morning she wakes to her wildest dreams but not everything is as she wished. This story follows Anna and Max as and their relationship through a parallel wished universe and followed what could have been or what could be.

Perfect if you like:
Magical Realism
Opposites Attract
Insta Love
Strangers to Lovers
Billionaire Romance

I listened to the audiobook and I think the narrator did a great job transitioning between characters with different tones and accents. I would have loved to hear this book as a duet with the narrator that covers the epilogue. It felt like a little tease.

Wowza. The spice is this book felt hotter than the previous books in this series! Maybe I am bias because I love a grumpy bossy Max. I was not expecting that!

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Swift & Lewis Publishing for allowing me to be an ACL for this book!

I loved this book!!! I feel like it’s so relatable. Everyone has made a wish that has been crazy and impossible and our main character, Anna is no different. Except her wish is that she was married to her hot boss who barely knows that she exists. What could possibly go wrong? I loved the character development and how the story progressed in general. Highly recommend this one.

my rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

aesthetic: 🏰💍✨💖🌹💭👗💑🎧

tropes: wish fulfilment/fantasy, marriage of convenience, opposites attract, unrequited Love, love at first sight, fake relationship becomes real, second chance romance

Thank you to NetGalley and Sarah Ready for the opportunity to listen to this beautiful piece of artwork. This audiobook was a delightful, whimsical story about love, wishes, and the unexpected twists that come with them.

Anna Benoit, the hopeless romantic, and Max Barone, the enigmatic owner of the chateau, are compelling characters whose chemistry is undeniable. The concept of waking up married to someone you've secretly admired from afar was both intriguing and heartwarming. Anna’s journey, navigating this upside-down world where her wish has come true, was full of moments that made me smile and question what it means to truly get what we want.

Max's gradual realization and the dynamics between them kept me hooked (ifykyk🌚). The pacing of their romance, mixed with a touch of magical realism, made this a very enjoyable listen. I especially appreciated how Anna’s character grew throughout the story, finding clarity in her own desires and dreams.

I give this audiobook 4 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐ and recommend it to anyone who enjoys a fun, romantic story with a twist!🤭

Wished is a fun, romantic book full of magical realism, which means this has a lot of my favorite genres mixed together. While Wished is the fourth book in a series, I think it would work just fine as a standalone. I’ve now read or listened to books two, three, and four, and I absolutely want to go back and read book one!

Anna is working as a maid in Geneva, Switzerland. Her job includes cleaning the mansion of Max Barone, heir to a jewelry empire. (We meet Max in book three of this series, but you really don’t need to know about that.) As you might imagine, she’s pretty much invisible to Max, a young and handsome billionaire. She’s just the maid. But Anna is besotted with Max. One day she’s cleaning and makes a wish that she and Max were married and in love. She doesn’t realize that she made the wish while cleaning a gorgeous heirloom necklace that is reported to have magical powers. Nothing happens right away, but the next morning she wakes up in a luxurious bed and finds out that everyone in the household thinks she is Mrs. Barone and that she and Max have been married for seven years. And so begins the adventure.

Anna is faced with a dilemma - she knows it’s because of her wish, not what Max would really want. So what should she do? And can she even un-do her wish?

The story moves from Geneva to Paris and St. Tropez and back to Geneva, so we are treated to descriptions of some really beautiful and famous places.

Note: there are some explicit spicy scenes.

I wasn’t feeling well so instead of bouncing between the ebook and the audiobook, I mostly listened to the audiobook and that was an excellent choice. Most of the book is narrated by Amanda Ronconi, with the prologue and epilogue narrated by Will Watt.

Thank you to Swift & Lewis Publishing and NetGalley for the opportunity to read a review copy of this book and to listen to a review copy of this audiobook. All opinions are my own.

WISHED narrated by Amanda Ronconi and Will Watt is well performed with both narrators well suited for their characters. Amanda Ronconi narrates most of the book and her narrative voice for both Anna & Max draws the listener in from the beginning. She is so expressive with Anna and all the emotions she goes through. Roncini also expresses the roughness of Max during particular situations then she seamlessly switches his tone to something smoother & inviting.

Will Watt’s slow & drawn out pace nicely pulls Max into the story both at the beginning & end. He is just as expressive with his tone at the beginning as Roncini is throughout her narration. Both narrators provide an excellent flow and movement from one character voice to the next.

While I truly enjoyed the audio, I am glad I also had the book available to read as well. I found having the book was beneficial for understanding the French word & phrases & understanding the history behind the jewelry.

Still, I recommend listening to this book just as much as reading it. Either variation of the book brings out its captivating and magical story. One to get lost in and enjoy.

I really wanted to like this one! I thought the blurb was cute, and the premise was cute, but it was hard for me to get into and into the plot. A maid makes a wish about her boss, who she doesn’t actually know, to get him to fall in love with her because she has a crush on him, to make her life better, turn his completely upside down, and essentially change the entirety of the world in the process. She doesn’t take into consideration what HE wants or feels, whether or not he wants to or could love her back, only her own feelings. While they do end up in a whirlwind relationship, and trying to figure things out, it just came across as creepy. Had the roles been reversed this book would have been stalker romance 101. I wasn’t a bit of a fan of this one, though I wish I would have been. I just wish that it would’ve happened a bit differently with the wish and that they could have spoken or known each other BEFORE the wish came to be. Or that he would have KNOWN anything about what was going on after the wish had been made.

I love the way Sarah Ready writes, the way she describes moments, objects and places - I truly find myself fully immersed in the story.
Wish was no exception!

📖 Wished by Sarah Ready
📚 book 4 • Ghosted series
(can definitely be read as a standalone, though for a bit more of Max’s story, we do meet him in Fated)

⭐️ rating: 4.75/5
🌶️: open door, several scenes

💭 overall thoughts:
Anna has been cleaning billionaire Max’s chateau for years, and while he barely knows she exists, she fell in love at first sight.

Finding a magical necklace on his desk, she makes a wish to be married to him, he fires her thinking she stole it, and they wake up in this new “reality,” as husband and wife.

Before the wish, Anna felt she really knew Max, seeing how he lived, while he knows absolutely nothing about her. While working together to get back to their previous life, their connection grows deeper and deeper.

I loved how this novel showed that wishes aren’t always what they might seem, and how we may not even know what we’re meant for. What’s real in life, what matters, and what parts of life are what we make them.

My favorite in the series is still Fated, though I loved the whole thing!
I think it’s a complete series now, but I’d love to see more magical realism from Sarah 🥰

As with each of these books, there was a bit of a twist I didn’t see coming. I thought I had it figured out, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that I hadn’t 🙃

read if you love:
💫 magical realism
💰 billinonaire jewelry business owner mmc
🫧 house cleaner fmc
🙃 opposites attract
💭 wishes + dreams
🥹 insta love & pining (for her)
💖 single 1st person pov
(though the prologue/epilogue is Max’s pov)

🎙 audiobook thoughts:
I don’t believe I’d heard either narrator before, and I think they both did a fantastic job! Amanda Ronconi did a wonderful job embodying Anna.
We only get 2 chapters from Will Watt (aka Max), but I loved the accent and tone to his voice.

Thank you to NetGalley & Sarah Ready for advanced copies.
All opinions are my own.

Be careful what you wish for, because it can be way more than what you wanted, but exactly what you needed!

I absolutely LOVED this book. The faced paced, insta-love hit the spot. The development of the storyline had me wrapped from the beginning right up till the end. Their love, the tension, and the perfect amount of spice! The love they have is to dream of.

Different worlds? SOLD. The way their love is fated no matter the wish is just what my hopeless romantic self needed.

“Apparently it is absolutely impossible to convince of something if they are convinced something else is the truth.” This hit right in heart. The truth of this statement and all of Anna’s feelings. I just related to her so much.

The narrators, Amanda Ronconi and Will Watt, were phenomenal. I was hooked from the prologue. I’ll definitely need to see what else they have so I can listen!

Sarah Ready definitely got a new fan. I’ll be going back and reading more of her ASAP!

Love. Love. Love.

When Anna makes a wish whilst holding her boss’ family heirloom necklace, she has no idea that it might just come true. After a horrific day, she wakes to find herself in luxurious sheets, with staff, and even more shocking, married 7 years to her cold but ever so handsome boss, jewellery empire owner, Max Barone.

What do you do when you wake up married to the man you’ve secretly been in love with for years - do you play along or do you do everything in your power to rectify the mistake?

I loved everything about this book. The magical hints, Max Barone and his transition from buttoned-up cynic to passionate husband, the inexplicable consequences of wishes and so much more. Much steam, many lovely emotional moments and an ending that made my little romantic heart burst with glee.

I especially adored the prologue from Max's POV. That voice, the enunciation, the meltingly sensual switch from rage to attraction! If only it had been a dual narration audiobook all the way through. I often struggle with listening to higher pitched female voices with certain accents on audiobooks as I am quite audio-sensitive, but I really enjoyed this format regardless.

This was such an interesting read! I've never read Sarah Ready before but I loved the writing. I really enjoyed seeing the different sides of Max and the different circumstances these two were put in. It did take me a minute to get into but that was mostly due to it being different than things I've read in the past. But I truly loved the concept and the execution! Such a good read. The audio was great!

First off, let me say that I’m STILL WAITING to read a book by Sarah Ready that I DON’T like! Hasn’t happened yet! 😮❤️

Meet Anna. She’s a house cleaner and trying to make ends meet. She’s also a hopeless romantic! Unfortunately, she fell head over heels for the owner of the mansion she cleans…at first sight. Several years ago…

Meet Max. He’s the head of the Barone Jewelry Empire. He’s handsome, rich, owns the above mentioned mansion, and has no idea who Anna is! 🫣

🛑🛑 Stop here if you don’t want to know any more. Outline following! 🛑🛑

One day Anna makes a wish, on a certain thing that supposedly holds some kind of magic. 🤔

Next thing you know, she’s LIVING a whole new life! 😮👀

How can this be? This isn’t right! She needs to fix this…

And so it goes…as we go on an adventure with the two of them…and it’s quite an adventure!

It will make you laugh, and it will make you sad…but in the end, it’s one you’ll want to read! LOVE all of her stories!!

4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for me!

❤️ Unlikely main characters
❤️ Full supporting cast…family, friends, etc
❤️ Strangers to more??
❤️ Love conquers all! 🥰

#Wished by #SarahReady and narrated beautifully by #AmandaRonconi and #WillWatt.

Thanks so much to #NetGalley and #Swift&LewisPublishingLLC for an ARC of the audiobook which is due out in a couple of days on 10/1/24! *** Look 👀 for it then! ***

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