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Three Wishes (Arabesque)

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Well Janice has done it again with another great story! Sunny (Sunday) Adams is a great attorney and has taken the case of a childhood friend who is accused of killing her husband a famous rap star. Sunny was adopted at birth and when her adoptive parents died when she was eight she lived for a while in this friends home. Her birth mother Audra Kane decides to contact Sunny because a well known tabloid writer is going to do a book about Audra and bring up all the dirt she can plus the fact that Audra gave her daughter up for adoption when she became a movie star. She sends her step-son to Georgia to explain it to Sunny in hopes that Sunny does not hate her for giving her up and her reasons for not contacting her before now. You will have to read the story to get all the details and it is well worth the read. Thanks Janice for another great story!

to say how wonderful "Three Wishes" is! Ms. Sims' careful research, particularly into the legal systems, makes for vibrant background detail. Her artful manipulation of the plot, contrived so that amour and friendship escalate in tandem (an none too quickly), reaffirms her ability to deliver entertaining fiction. Her characters are very believable and thank goodness she didn't write Sunny Adams as some weak-willed woman! Sunny has had a very hard life (given up for adoption, orphaned at a young age, and forced to live in foster care), yet is strong without being brash. I wanted to break out in song, "The sun will come out tomorrow . . .", but I can't carry a tune across the sidewalk!

Jonas is so manly that he doesn't need to smother Sunny, yet he becomes her rock. When he leaves her to go to Haiti, my mouth dropped open! When have you read a novel where the main characters aren't glued to each other throughout the story?

Both characters (and their parents) stand on their own without being stick people (one dimentional). What a rare combination! But it's typical of a Janice Sims' novel.

Five cheers, Ms. Sims!

Janice has pen another great book. Fan are going to love it.

To understand Sunday Adams you need to understand her parent. Audra and Tom met when they was in college first love and Audra end up with child. Now we pretty much know the story don't want to give to much away but they break up alone and with child Audra has her baby but she realize that she is young and could take care of a child.

Sunny was adopted by loving parents who died and after that Sunny had been in and out of the system. Sunny is strong, independent who herself had been hurt when she was in college so she built up a wall around her heart. Now we all know that it takes a special person to knock that wall down and enter Jonas Blake FINEEEEEEEEE man, Sunny don't know what to do but she takes things slow. Jonas and Sunny are good together because both of these character has strong will and they both speak there minds. The LOVE SCENE are GOODDDDDDD. You will love this book I recommend you buy it.

Louise

This book sucked me in at the very start and I couldn't put it down. Ms. Sims style of writing was awesome for this story, comic and touching it did not disappiont. I loved everyone's story and I love that the author did an outstanding job of dividing the book between the stories characters this must be a difficult task because I usually find that its not divide equally or on the side of the most interesting couple, all of these couples held my interest. I was rooting for everyone equally and the trip was well worth the fun ride and what a great ending. Loved it!!!

I READ THIS BOOK A LITTLE BIT AGO AND ALTHOUGH I REMEMBER LIKING IT, NOTHING ABOUT THE STORY REALLY STANDS OUT TO ME. JUST A DECENT READ.

I have been searching for someone who keeps the cat and mouse game to a minimum. Ms Sims is that someone. I hate reading a romance novels that takes 200-300 pages for the main characters to finally admit their feelings for one another. The characters in this book admit that they are both "consenting adults". THANK YOU! Finally! Characters with enough sense to acknowledge the obvious. Overall, pretty darn good story. You have to love the best one in the novel...Ceasar (the cat). LOL. Humor is definitely sprinkled throughout this novel.

In Janice Sims' "Three Wishes", Hollywood actress Audra Kane longs for a relationship with the daughter she gave up for adoption. In a heartwarmingly told tale, that wish eventually comes true. But the lead characters in the novel, Sunny Adams and Jonas Blake are granted wishes that neither of them really ask for - in the beginning. Jonas is a globe-trotting consultant, and Sunny is a brilliant defense attorney. Neither seems to have given much thought to the idea of settling down with a soul mate. But, after the heat is turned up in this relationship, they both realize what's been missing in their lives. This novel has several well-thought storylines which adds a lot of interest! I'm even wondering why it wasn't called "Five Wishes" - it seems to me that Norman Blake and Tom Chapman got their wishes granted too!

As always, Ms. Sims gives us cast of secondary characters that are well defined. One of my favorites was Caesar the cat!

Three Wishes is a must read. I delayed finishing it because I wasn't ready for it to end. LOL I loved the book and will definitely read it again and again..... I admired Sunny's strength, she didn't let her past - her adoption, loss of adoptive parents or foster care - make her bitter. She grew stronger from it all. Caesar, the cat - was a trip. And I liked Vernette and Audra's relationship, the way Vernette supported Audra. I'm glad Constance came around, I wasn't liking her too tuff after the comment about Sunny's outfit and THEN to slap Audra.... I was kind of peeved. LOL And Jonas..... (sigh). LOL

Janice Sims always delivers an excellent story and she's done it again! I loved Three Wishes. Sunny Adams was delightful full figured woman and Jonas was oh so Fine!! Sunny would have never dreamed that her favorite actress would turn out to be her Mom. I love Audra, she was spunky and beautiful, but most of all she was really down to earth. You'll find yourself wondering why Audra and Norman ever really broke up to begin with. You'll be happy for Jonas and Sunny. Most of all you understand that although, Audra and Tom couldn't make as a couple, they really are good people. This book put a smile on my face and joy in my heart. It was a really great story.

Twenty-eight-year-old attorney, Sunday Adams survived adoption, foster care, college, and law school. She was handpicked to work for a prestigious law firm in Georgia. But, she is not fulfilled; she never had a real family and relatives. A visit from a handsome stranger, Jonas Blake, turns Sunny's life inside out, but might prove to be her deliverance.

Representing his stepmother and famed movie star, Audra Kane, Jonas visits Atlanta to invite Sunny to meet her biological mother. Jonas, whose wanderlust has never allowed a relationship, can barely finish his stepmother's agenda before he starts formulating his own. Sunny is beautiful and strong-willed and has captured his interest. The timing is not right, Sunny is in the throes of a high profile murder case and her life may be in danger; Jonas grabs the opportunity to stay and protect her.

Initially, Sunny is skeptical about his intentions, because number one, there is no way Audra Kane is her mother; no way. Secondly she has long since sworn off pretty men, and Jonas is definitely a 'long drink of water'. Jonas convinces Sunny to talk to Audra, and the result is bizarre. In a just a few days Sunny has gone from being completely alone to having both of her biological parents, relatives, and a potential lover. All the particulars, surrounding these revelations, suspend Sunny in an emotional abyss.

THREE WISHES is a well-written story which gives readers the hope that a second chance can produce sweet restitution and a new beginning. But this story is not all sunshine and roses, Ms. Sims deals with the AIDS virus, the flamboyant lives of rappers, the effects of unwed motherhood, and adoption. There are serious messages, which are manifested with a mature storyline and mature characterization. I loved how the primary and secondary characters handled their issues. In true Sims fashion, this is another strong romantic read.

Reviewed by aNN

of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers