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from rondoctor

Very different from all the other Baldacci books I've read. I started it reluctantly, thinking I would not like it. It didn't take long to realize that I was wrong. This book is exceptionally well-written. The story is compelling. The characters are very well drawn and are engaging. I highly reco...

from miyurose

This was a sweet story about a couple of kids that are given more hard knocks than they deserve. I normally don't like it when authors switch genres (see: James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell), but this was wonderful writing from Baldacci. The ending is a little sugary-sweet-fairy-tale-ish, but it'...

from SheilaDeeth

There's a wishing well in David Baldacci's novel, Wish You Well. There are children with deep wounds and wishes. There are adults worn down by care, worn out by pain, and worn to warmth by love. And there's a Virginia landscape standing proud against the inroads worn by mankind. The world of the ...

from Gmomaj

Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains. Suddenly Lou finds herself gr...

from kavyen

The story setting moves from New York to the mountains in Virginia when Lou's dad and award-winning writer dies in a car accident. It describes the life of Lou and her brother Oz after being thrust to be cared by their great-grandmother in the mountains far away from civilization. The story has e...