Rating: 3,5 stars

The Last Wish of Sasha Cade is kind of really adorable, but it’s also a bit hard to believe imo. I know, the adorable part should be totally weird, because it’s about losing your best friend to cancer and yet I stand by what I said. The thing is, it’s not just about Raquel grieving for her bestest friend in the world. It’s mostly about going on an adventure and falling in love and it’s all planned by your dead best friend.

It was heartwarming, honestly. This was Sasha’s way to push Raquel out of her comfort zone even in her death, as she’d always done, and make sure she actually lives. This is basically the whole concept of the book, and like I said, adorable but I’m not sure if I buy it? I think it’s just me though. Also, the romance was really cute, but I felt like the love interest’s character background information could’ve been more elaborate? His problems, how they came to be, et cetera? It was all a bit vague.

In short though, this book was full of cuteness of friendship and love (both romantic and family!).

***Thanks to NetGalley for providing me a complimentary copy THE LAST WISH OF SASHA CADE by Cheyanne Young in exchange for my honest review.***

4.5 STARS

After succumbing to cancer, Raquel’s best friend Sasha leaves behind a series of adventures to be completed with Elijah, the biological brother Sasha met through an adoption website, but never in person.

THE LAST WISH IF SASHA CADE is an engaging story of love, loss, family, friendship and romance. While not entirely realistic given the typical trajectory of the health decline of terminal cancer, having lost friends to cancer having adventures orchestrated by friends after they’ve died would have been wonderful. I cried for the last twenty percent of the story.

I loved the characters Raquel and Elijah, even when I wanted to throttle her and say, “Talk to an adult.” I know what making promises to dying friends feels like, and the dilemma one feels when needing to make a conscious decision to break an oath that probably shouldn’t have been made in the first place. But I’m an adult with the benefit of more life experiences and Raquel is a teenager grieving, so I get it.

#TheLastWishOfSashaCade will appeal to most contemporary YA fiction fans with enough drama, angst and romance to satisfy everyone.

This is a wonderful novel about the friendship between two girls and how, after the death of one, the friendship grows and builds. When Sasha dies, Raquel tries to keep living. Through her sadness light appears when she begins getting messages from Sasha. Raquel goes on adventures and falls in love in this wonderful book about death and life afterwards. I am thankful to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me to be an early reader in exchange for my fair and honest review.