wice A Wish by Pepper Winters is book 2 in the Goddess Isles series. Pepper has created a world surrounded by myth, fantasy, and illusion. She has twisted our minds around a story so thought-provoking that we can’t decipher the difference between illusion and reality, fantasy and actuality, myth and fact.
This story has me more mesmerized with each passing chapter. This is a story that you can’t put down. The characters are filled with a desire to be loved, a desire to trust what is before them, a desire to make sense out of the beautiful illusion of euphoria. Everything that happens in euphoria has my senses on overdrive. Author Pepper Winters is definitely playing without minds, making us want and hope for one thing but teasing us with what is actually happening. She is a master at this game.
The Goddess Isles series is like none other I have ever read. The audio version has me enveloped in this world with the sultry and smooth voice of Scott Rider who portrays Sully to a T. The emotion that is ripped from Sully meets your ears and sends your heart on a rampage, sends your pulse skyrocketing.
At this point in the story, Pepper has me hooked, has me hoping that I see through the illusion, see the truth in the beautiful paradise, see a future for Eleanor and Sully, together. Her words say one thing yet hint and tease at something more. Every chapter leaves me wondering what was real; what was the illusion.
Sully has so many secrets, so many demons that haunt him. Try as he might to protect Eleanor and keep her safe, he is fighting a losing battle. Her strength, her wisdom, her compassion and empathy, are all weapons she uses to get inside his mind. Does she have any idea what she is in for? Can she break through the hardened heart that has taken over Sully? Does she really want to? Does she really crave his love, desire him above all others, or is it also an illusion?
Twice a Wish has left me on another precipice just waiting to tip over the edge. Eleanor has done the unthinkable! Will using Sully’s own inventions against him ruin her, ruin him? Using his denied desire against him in a last-ditch attempt to make him see what is right before his eyes. Is she strong enough to see Sully through the torment? Will her love be strong enough to help him weather the storm? What will happen next? We will have to wait and see in Third A Kiss.