Opening Sentence: '...It was six o'clock on Valentine's Day, an hour that should have marked the beginning of a celebration - the way it had when she and Robert were married. When Robert was alive...'

Didn't enjoy this as much as the first in the series THE SHOP ON BLOSSOM STREET but still a nice cozy read that I really need right now to sooth the soul. The book concentrates on four widows who meet at Anne Marie Roche's bookstore.

Anne Marie is the main focus of this book - she was separated from her husband after he refused to have a baby with her, they are on the point of reconciliation when he suddenly died. Lillie Higgins lost her husband in a plane crash, the same plane crash took the husband of her daughter, Barbie Foster. The last of the group, Elise Beaumont, became a widow after cancer claimed her husband. Together, the four decide to make wish lists of twenty wishes. With Elise's prodding, Anne Marie decides to fulfill one of her wishes—do good for someone else—and becomes a lunch buddy to an at-risk third grader. Anne Marie also has to deal with the reappearance of her adult stepdaughter, Melissa, who always hated her.

Although each of the women has something that they are seeking, their wishes don't necessarily turn out the way they imagine - some do. Yes the endings to each woman's story is pretty well predictable, I found getting there to be fun, enjoyable and soothing for me. They are feel good stories, and that is what a wanted and got. I wish I had a group of friends like this. ( )

As always I very much enjoyed this book, another fabulous in the Blossom Street series. I finished the book in 2 days, I couldn't put it down! I just had to know how these women fared in their quest of goals for the twenty wishes. I am not a knitter but you don't have to be to fall in love with her books. ( )

Debbie Macomber has done it again. She captured my heart and got me crying before the end of the book. I always seem to be able to pick up on where she is going but can't put the book down until I get there at the end.

Four widows get together and decide to make lists of twenty wishes of goals, wants, needs or whimsical things. The journey to find their desires isn't easy but then their lives haven't been easy to this point either and life always has a way of coming around to what is really needed in the end. ( )

Fourth and most recent in the Blossom Street series, this one follows a group of widows as they make Twenty Wishes and see their lives change because of it. Thankfully, the book centers on their wishes and *not* on grief and recovery (like so many books about knitting and widows do)! My only sadness is that there's very little about knitting in this one -- no knitting pattern, either, which should have been a clue about the lack of knitting content. ( )

A group of widows begin list of 20 wishes ( )