this was a perfect summer read, the ideal book to bring to the beach or on your summer vacation to have something light but also hearty to read. this was really enjoyable, Natalia and Ethan were absolutely cute together!

"You two have always had this...snow globe thing Like, your own magical world. Everyone else can see it, but you're so deep in it, you can't. I'm just shaking the snow for you."

like!!!! have you ever heard such a cuter metaphor for a couple than a snow globe?? I'm obsessed with them.

I Wish You Would by Eva Des Lauriers is a charming, slow-burn romance filled with witty banter and heartfelt moments. The chemistry between the protagonists feels authentic, though the plot occasionally treads familiar ground. It’s a sweet, cozy read that will resonate with fans of contemporary romance looking for a feel-good escape.

I know this sounds strange, but I enjoyed this a lot more than I ever thought I would. At my age, it takes a particular style of YA to resonate with me. I don't know if I can pinpoint exactly why this worked for me, but it did.

The whole premise of the Senior Sunrise is something I would have loved in high school. I also loved the angst between the two main characters. The friends-to-lovers trope was well executed, and I fell for these two very quickly. The writing was fantastic. I can't wait to read more from this author.

The narrators were both great. I appreciated that they sounded like they were in high school, which is something that turns me off in other YA books.

Thank you to Macmillan Audio for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book had such a cute premise, and I love YA romances. I struggled with this one because there was so much miscommunication. I wanted them to just talk it out, but it didn't happen. Overall, it was a cute story.

Slooowwwww burn!

This was a lot for me to get thru. What I thought was going to be a cute YA coming of age love story turned more into a long dragged out mutual pining with very little plot in between. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad thing and it appears that’s exactly what the author was going for. However, my taste doesn’t always align with that. In a character heavy story like this one, I need to care about my characters. I don’t necessarily need to relate but I need to have something that makes me root for them. I couldn’t care less about Natalia and Ethan 🤷🏻‍♀️ I found them both hard characters to be in their heads. I did enjoy the little slices of letters we got from some of the other students. Those were fun sprinkled in! There was also some side characters (whose names have escaped me! 😩) that I really liked hearing from or anytime they were in the scan made it better but idk this wasn’t for me! I mean the whole thing if Natalia and Ethan just talked they could have worked it out and we’d have wrapped up the whole book in like 20 pages 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

Ethan and Natalia should be heading into their senior year as best friends, but instead, they haven’t talked to each other all summer. Now it’s time for Senior Sunrise (a night of camping on the beach to kick off senior year) and they’re facing each other for the first time since Prom night when their friendship almost crossed the line into something more. As a Senior Sunrise tradition, the class writes notes to themselves about what they wish and hope for - and many of the students truly spill their hearts out. A last minute mistake causes the notes to go flying and Natalia and Ethan have to work together to get the notes back and not let anyone know what happened. Secrets could be revealed and lives could be changed forever. The two have one last chance to work together - and work things out.

This was a super sweet YA book! While the threat of a lost note may not mean as much to me as an adult, I was totally sent back in time to high school with this book and felt all the feelings! The characters were well developed and honestly more mature than some of the 20-something characters in other romance novels. Yet, they were still clearly kids, so it worked for YA. I enjoyed this as an adult but this is also a book that I’d be happy to have my child read if she were a teenager. I enjoyed the narration as well - I binged it in just a day!

*4.5⭐️
This book was so good! I love a good besties to lovers romance and had been craving a good one when I read this. And Natalia and Ethan were perfect for that! They had such a cute relationship that felt very realistic for teenagers in the level of miscommunication. It was like they kept missing each other, but even apart, they still supported and cared for each other! They were honestly so adorable together!

I really liked the overall plot of the senior year trip and the letters. This book is perfect for anyone going through a transitional period, especially people who are graduating from high school. I also really liked how while the book focused on Ethan and Natalia, it also gave us glimpses into the minds of their classmates, demonstrating that everyone has similar fears of not belonging and not knowing where they’re heading.

I also loved the narration! I really liked both Max Meyers and Victoria Villareal’s voices and I think they fit the characters perfectly!

Also, I need to add how much I appreciate Eva Des Lauriers naming this book after one of my favorite Taylor Swift songs!

I love, love, loved this sweet story.

Natalia and Ethan are adorable. They struggle during one of life’s hardest times. High School.

And to almost lose your best friend in the process? Unimaginable. Luckily thanks to the unlucky senior sunrise things go so far off track that they actually get back on track.

But then to be dealing with potentially moving and not living out your dreams?! On top of everything else?!

Don’t skip this one. Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for a chance to read and review.

I think the premise of this book sounds so cute. I also think I would’ve liked this much better if I were a bit younger. My biggest problem with this book is how much miscommunication is throughout the entire story. I know that’s kind of the whole point, and there is a lot of angst, but I think I would’ve connected and liked it much better if I were apart of this age group. I went in blind and mostly because it shares a title with my favorite song off of 1989 Taylor’s Version. However, I was looking for those vibes and didn’t get what I was hoping for. The miscommunication was so intense and the story was difficult for me to want to pick back up because of that intensity. I feel like if that intensity were shifted more so onto the deeper topics in the main characters lives and less on the forceful nature of the relationship I would’ve enjoyed it a lot more.

3.5/5 Stars

Natalia and Ethan haven't seen or spoken to each other since junior prom night, where they almost became more then friends. Ethan is desperate to mend their relationship and will do anything to be best friends again. It is now Senior Sunrise, a day where the seniors come together to bond and complete the tradition of writing letters to themselves that contain secret confessions and sealing them in a bottle. When Natalia accidently scatters the letters across the beach, she teams up with Ethan to collect them before others find them.

This was a cute little YA romance, that takes place over a single day in the summer. It is dual POV, and I enjoyed both Natalia and Ethan's chapters. They did drive me crazy with the miscommunication, and the entire story and relationship could have been resolved if they had one conversation, but I digress. I think the reasoning behind Natalia pulling away was very valid, so once we learn that, it was a bit less frustrating... still frustrating, but less so. I loved once Natalia and Ethan started mending the relationship, they are so sweet together and you could see how much they cared for one another. I think that both Ethan and Natalia had a lot of character development in the end, and I did enjoy how the story ended. The side characters were also so much fun, and I think they enhanced the story so much. Also the writing style, and some of the quotes in this were so gorgeous.

I wish you would is a book that explores friendships in highschool and seeing if some friendships are worth being much, much more.

This is a book that takes place all basically within the same day. When two best friends try to attempt their virginity pact it messes with their feelings, heads and their friendship. Months later they are left with a mess as they try to reconcile with what happened and if there’s still a chance to fix their friendship or perhaps make it even more.

This book packs all the messy tangled drama of being a teen and falling in love. Be prepared for teenage antics, the go-around and complications galore in our main characters attempt in expressing how they feel! I liked the private letters aspect and was nervous the whole time in how they would save everyone’s secrets from being plastered around the school.

The audio was fantastic! Both narrators for this dual point of view made it an easy listen. I highly recommend this route.

It’s honestly so funny to me, as I look back on Eva Des Lauries’ <i>I Wish You Would</i> and realize that a fair number of readers see this book as a miscommunication trope novel. It’s especially funny as I ruminate on the fact that I truly loved this book but have lambasted three other novels recently for engaging in miscommunication as a plot device to extend out the length of the book. The thing is, <i>I Wish You Would</i> is a masterful example of how to write this trope <i>well</i>.

It all comes down to purpose—why are your characters not communicating? Or why is their communication not resonating with the other? What is the result of this communication? What purpose does that serve for the characters and for the plot?

If the miscommunication is simply characters making decisions for other characters because one feeling or another—often, some sort of assumed inadequacy is involved—leads them to believe that’s “best,” don’t use this trope. It’s awful and painful and most readers want nothing to do with it. If your miscommunication is because your characters are young, wrapped up in an emotional moment, they misunderstand each other, and—now this last part is <i>key</i>—this miscommunication is not used as a <i>last minute</i> way to add in some final conflict to push out the length of your book, I think it can be done well.

See, the amazing thing about <i>I Wish You Would</i> is that the vast majority of miscommunication occurs in flashback sequences that slowly, as you weave your way through the events of this senior class camping trip, reveal new truths to you about the characters. So, instead of this being some contrived miscommunication that serves no purpose other than fake conflict toward the end of the book, we get a genuine mystery to solve and characters who have some serious growing to do.

The final brilliance of this is that we get to experience that growth along with them! Nothing has to be tied up in a rush at the end, we don’t have to sit through a ridiculously lengthy internal explanation of feels so the character makes an idiotic decision in a short time frame that makes absolutely zero sense. We get to experience the pure anxiety of being young and thinking about a first time and having it messed up by saying the wrong thing—my word, don’t you remember that feeling from when you were a teenager?—and the agonizing afterward, wishing you’d said something differently and not knowing how to fix what you’ve mucked up.

I was floored by how impressed I was with Lauries’ writing on this. And it just kept getting better and better. We get to see these characters awkwardly navigating around each other, tiptoeing over the conversation they both want to have but are both too scared to broach with one another. We feel, quite viscerally, their fear that letting those feelings out is going to ruin what has already been ruined even further, irreparably. And we slowly learn all the deeper little intricacies that impact their fears and, ultimately, the decision to keep their secrets. They are eggshells for all the right reasons.

Readers, I <i>loved</i> this.

Now, that’s not to say that there wasn’t anything I didn’t like about the miscommunication trope that found its way into this book. You see, while all of the above was something I deeply adored, it is unfortunately incumbent upon me to mention that Lauries does fall into that unfortunate trap of that last minute miscommunication for…extra drama, I guess? And so, in that vein, I did roll my eyes quite a bit when we reached that moment. While everything else was perfect, written expertly, I can and will admit that we didn’t need any more of it. And, in fact, that final miscommunication was actually the moment the author should have allowed everything to be resolve. That was the precise moment that these crazy kids really needed to sit down and have an actual, honest conversation.

Remove that, though, and <i>I Wish You Would</i> is easily a five-star read for me.

Max Meyers and Victoria Villarreal were phenomenal narrators. I had such a wonderful time listening to their reading that I’m certain this is an audiobook I will revisit in the future.

had problems with the interactions between the main characters in chapter 1!! Mentions of sex in chapter 1 does not make me want to read this book. I found it weird that the main character was going to sleep with her best friend.

I Wish You Would was the YA debut I've been craving. When you hear about books in the YA genre, they are met with questionable faces because most of the books I've read are full of miscommunication and annoying storylines. Eva Des Lauriers book was filled with the perfect amount of youth representation and real life topics. She was able to weave a story together that showed us both sides and the conflicts of every character. The character flaws were accurately described and made me feel like I truly knew these young adults, once upon a time. I look forward to reading more of this author!

this book was... okay. it wasn't terrible, but it wasn't something i'd spend my own money on either. it was just mid.

i feel like i wasn’t to crazy’ about this book, i do love the characters and the storyline as well as the plot but i felt like this book. wasn’t made for me

While the story seemed to stall at times I Wish You Would is a fun and enjoyable YA romcom. Recommended as a general purchase for all libraries serving high schoolers.

This was the epitome of a YA romance!
Super cute! Loved the cover and the blurb got my attention! Thanks NetGalley for letting me read I Wish You Would before its release.

5 Stars

I loved this so much; it’s the quintessential YA romance and it was perfection.

We start with a very angsty teen moment... the will they won't they of friends turning into something more and then flash forward to months later as our two main characters navigate the aftermath of that moment.

Natalia and Ethan have been BFFs their entire lives and when a pact they made somewhat ends in awkward disaster, they are both desperate to heal the weird rift happening. As they participate in the senior beach camping trip where their entire class writes down secrets to burn, Natalia and Ethan might be most scared for their own secrets to come to light. Then, the secrets start to get out thanks to some meddling and maybe winds of fate. Ethan and Natalia join forces to get the secrets back and are forced to talk through things thy've been avoiding all summer.

Imagine this story as the moments we don't often see in a miscommunication trope. We start with the miscommunication and then fast forward to a story of the main characters working through the stupidity of that miscommunication in real time. This story takes place over 24 hours during the camping trip and is a dual POV story, so the alternating chapters really help push the story along quickly. I loved the overall setting and secondary characters and honestly think this story would make an amazing Netflix/Prime YA Summer movie of everyone's dreams.

The audiobook narrators were perfect and really captured the essence and painfully awkward yet relatable feelings of being a teen with big feelings for a friend. I highly recommend the book, especially on audio, and can't wait to read more of Eva's books in the future!

Where are the YA lovers at? This book is for you. The story follows Natalia and Ethan as they spend the night on the beach for their class's senior sunrise as they prepare to enter their final year of high school. These two have been best friends until an awkward encounter the night of prom in their junior year. Not knowing where they stand, they haven't spoken all summer.

Part of Senior Sunrise, each student writes a private confessional letter and places it in a jar. When a mishap happens with the jar and letters, 7 get lost in the wind along with the secrets they hold. This is teen drama to the max. It was reminiscent of shows like Dawson's Creek and One Tree Hill. There is angst, tension, secrets, friendships, and the dreams of high schoolers. Of course, there are the mean girls and the student government crowd who are trying to ensure a successful kick-off event. As Ethan and Natalia come back together, they share some of the difficult challenges they've had over the summer and the things they are facing at home.

So many books say they are young adult but don't feel like it. This one does. Max Meyers and Victoria Villarreal do a great job bringing the characters to life with all their drama and emotions. The audio went quickly for me as I wanted to keep listening until the very end without stopping. I had not read anything by this author before but will look for more in the future.