If you’re in the mood for cheesy and unrealistic love stories, then Just One Wish is the book for you.

It has everything that a typical teen romance book has, but that’s exactly the problem. A page describing how their eyes connected and endless ramblings on how the boy is perfect for the girl, the whole nine yards. This novel is as fluffy as carnival cotton candy.

On the point of unrealistic, everything about this book screams artificial. Obviously, teenage relationship aren’t serious enough in the first place. But yes, books can convey teenagers with a real and serious relationship and it actually sits well. This is not one of these books.

It all starts off with a stereotypical pair of people who are destined to be in love. The male lead is an oh so fine actor with looks and a rep to kill. Wow, who would have ever guessed that he’s known for a scandalous relationship with such a pretty actress. Being so busy with playing the lead in a hit TV show and constantly surrounded by paparazzi prevents him from leading a normal life and he is always misunderstood by the vast public. Hm, it’s sounds familiar. Maybe this concept been in almost all Hollywood teenage romance books.

Now for the leading lady. With the combination of a hot and famous male, there’s always the common girl, a girl average in looks (or in most cases heavily stresses that her looks are below par and rants continuously about how ugly they are and how they can’t get guys when, ironically, she ends up with the hot and perfect guy. Surprise, surprise.)

The characters themselves are set up in a way that they’re bound to fail, but there’s still more to the equation. Being the reckless teenagers they are, they collide into each other (cue the whole “our eyes connected and it was so strong that I couldn’t look away” and “I could see through him into his soul from his eyes” scenario here) and just decide to drop everything and run off together (I wish I was kidding when I said that, but this actually happens in the book to some extent) and they suddenly find out they like each other. Just like that. Out of nowhere. It was so sudden that it was so unrealistic for the reader, the characters, and possibly the author herself. Keep in mind this all happens in a day.

This doesn’t leave enough time for the characters’ feelings to develop properly based on a sufficient amount of interactions and signs of affection for one another. The best phase in love in the chase stage, where before dating, or even before finding out that they like each other, each “chases” one another in a need to constantly be around the other. The couple in this book doesn’t have that phase at all. One minute they’re strangers, the next they’re kissing and declaring their love. This relationship can’t even be deemed as a suitable relationship. They’re better off as friends.

Because the storyline is rushed, not just the relationship (which basically was the main point in the whole book, so what’s the point), there is little or no dimension in the plot. The little details, that highlight and accentuate the characters and events, is completely absent. The book read like a straight rollercoaster with no up and downs, no sharp turns or drops, and certainly no stomach-dropping loop. It has no depth or any intriguing factor that pulls the reader in and engulf them into that particular world.

But this book certainly is two things: predictable and irritating.