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The first book of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling series! It all started when I saw myself dead. For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She’s had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone’s toilet’s overflowed, but she’s never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her sofa instead, two things are certain: There isn't enough hydrogen peroxide in the state of Arkansas to get that stain out, and Rose is the prime suspect. Rose realizes she’s wasted twenty-four years of living and makes a list on the back of a Wal-Mart receipt: twenty-eight things she wants to accomplish before her vision comes true. She’s well on her way with the help of her next-door neighbor Joe, who has no trouble teaching Rose the rules of drinking, but won’t help with number fifteen-- do more with a man. Joe’s new to town, but it doesn’t take a vision for Rose to realize he’s got plenty of secrets of his own. Somebody thinks Rose has something they want and they’ll do anything to get it. Her house is broken into, someone else she knows is murdered, and suddenly, dying a virgin in the Fenton County jail isn’t her biggest worry after all. Read more
Publisher : DGS (December 19, 2013)
Publication date : December 19, 2013
Language : English
File size : 1829 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
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Twenty Eight and a Half Wishes is by Denise Grover Swank. It is a Rose Gardner Mystery, Book One. It was an interesting and relatively funny book. Rose Gardner was different from most young women. She sometimes had visions when she talked to or saw someone and then blurted out the vision. She never knew when the vision would hit nor could she deliberately have one. So, the first twenty-four years of her life were spent trying to keep it under control. She lived with her Mother, Cora, who believed her visions were the making of the Devil. Rose basically was her slave except when she was working. Her sister Violet had married and had her house in the same town but away from their Mother. She had her house in the suburbs, a loving husband, and two delightful children. That was what Rose yearned for but knew she would never have. One Friday afternoon before Memorial Day, she was at work at the DMV when a scruffy man approached. He was Mr. Crocker who wanted his plates renewed. As she attempted to serve him, a vision overcame her and she blurted out that he was going to kill her. This was the first vision she had about herself. As soon as she blurted it out, she fainted. After the supervisor sent her home, she went to see her sister instead. She got home a little late and her Mother was furious. She had already heard that Rose had made a spectacle of herself at the DMV. The next morning, her Mother was still on a roll. Rose got upset and argued with her Mother when her Mother insisted she make pies for her Mother to take credit for, again. Mother knew Rose went to the library every Saturday. Rose made the pies, put them in the oven and told her Mother to get them out when they were done. Rose stomped out of the house with her Mother yelling at her. Rose went to the library until it closed. Then she went to the café and had dinner. She took a walk in the part and made out a list of things she wanted to do before she was killed. She had 28 things on her list. When she final got home, she found her Mother dead on the couch just as she had seen the vision of herself. Mother had died instead of her! In a daze, she went next door to a new neighbor’s home to borrow his phone to call the police. Little did she know how involved Joe McAllister was going to get in her life. After all, she was the chief suspect. She gets a phone call later asking for something and if she didn’t hand it over by Saturday, she would be killed. She now has a week to live or figure out what is going on and what she is supposed to have. The book is so funny that occasionally you laugh out loud. Rose is not the most graceful girl around and she hasn’t a clue as to what is going on in the world much less in her own world. She sets out to spend her Mother’s money (not Cora but someone else), redo the house, and fulfill her list. I can’t wait to get the next book.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2014 by P. Blevins
When I started Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes, the first in the Rose Gardner Mystery series, I had doubts whether I'd like it. Some of the reviews I'd seen criticized the main character, Rose, for being simple minded and that the story was too unbelievable. For me, it was more the simple mindedness that had me worried. Unbelievable? It's about a girl who has visions and is filed under the "Fiction" label. I think that allows for a little farfetchedness. The first few pages didn't do much to dispel my fears. Rose is the definition of meek. She's nice, polite, and her most offensive expletive is "crappy doodles." She's 24 years old and, when she's not working at her mindless job at the DMV, she's at the beck and call of her religious mother (who is downright abusive and tells Rose she's possessed by the devil because she gets "visions"). While Rose doesn't like her situation, she seemed apathetic to changing it. If the story continued that way for too long, I wouldn't be saying this: I really liked Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes. Despite the uncertainty in the first few pages, Grover Swank didn't waste any time allowing Rose to bloom (pun fun). While at work, Rose gets a vision of herself lying dead on her sofa and faints. Faced with (potentially) her death, she realizes she's never really lived. She stands up to her demanding mother and storms out of the house to cool off. Before she returns, she takes out a Wal*Mart receipt and begins to make a list of things she wants to do before she dies. Commit all the deadly sins in one week, fly in a plane, dance in the rain, visit Italy, drink a beer (is it shocking that the item that made me wince was that she'd never drank a beer?). When she returns home, she realizes she'll have more time than she thought to check off items on the list. Her vision sort ofcame true, except instead of Rose being on the couch it was her mother. Unfortunately, gossip spreads fast and the fact that Rose had fought with her mother right before her mother was murdered hasn't gone unnoticed - especially not by the old busybody across the street and the small-town police officers. Not only is Rose a suspect, but it becomes clear the murderer is still after her. Rose must do her best to keep out of jail and stay alive. After all, she has a list to finish. Obviously, there's the standard "Woman gets accused of murder. Real killer pursues woman. Police are corrupt/unmotivated. Woman must solve crime to save her life" crime element that is present in so many novels in this genre, but in this circumstance it seemed to serve mostly as a vehicle for Rose's development. And that was a good thing, because Rose really grew on me (I swear that pun was accidental). Her home life may have kept her naïve and down trodden, but Rose wasn't stupid. Socially awkward? Yes. But that just made her more endearing. It made you want to cheer for Rose - not just to solve the mystery but to experience life. When she got a makeover and purchased some new clothes, I was excited for her. Rose felt like a truly good person and she deserved to feel good about herself! So much of my enjoyment of this book came from Rose checking things off her list. For example, her sitting on the porch with Joe and discovering beer for the first time (and, the next morning, discovering that beer wasn't her new best friend). Oh, and buying the scandalous nighty at Wal*Mart (which didn't sound all that scandalous)...too funny. Of course, you can't review one of these books without mentioning the "love interest." Even though I've been loving the hell out of these books (they're a fun way to wrap up my "100 books a year" reading challenge), I'm not a big romance person. I know, I'm probably the only one who reads these kinds of books and feels that way, but I can usually tolerate it as long as it doesn't take over the plot. I'm happy to say that, in this book, the romance was actually pretty tolerable. Probably because there wasn't a ton of it and, you know, with Rose so innocent and inexperienced, it wasn't going to go all 50 Shades of Grey. Joe was plenty mysterious, but, for the most part, I couldn't help feeling like he was a good guy. It was clear he wanted to keep Rose from getting hurt, but he never tried to make her decisions for her. In fact, he may have been one of the few people in her life that wasn't. The ending itself wasn't all that shocking, but I barely noticed because of how it ended. Just when I thought Rose and her antics couldn't get any better, they did. I was laughing at one sentence and cheering at the next. This maybe one of the best (if not top) feel good books I've read. I liked that.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2012 by Wendy
Didn’t know what I was getting into when I started the book. I didn’t read a synopsis or anything and mystery is usually not my preferred genre. But I really enjoyed this, and I am hoping to continue the series.
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2023 by BSones
Rose has visions of the future of other people. Then she has one of herself where she is dead. How does one keep going after you see yourself dead? I like that as an idea in a book.
Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2023 by joe vitucci