Book Review: The Final Wish of Murray McBride by Joe Siple
The Final Wish of Mr. Murray McBride
Series: The Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride #2
Author: Joe Siple
Published: January 21, 2021
Kindle: 239 pages
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: February 19- March 6, 2025
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
Jason Cashman has reached the goal he spent the last twenty years seeking, but instead of feeling content, he feels empty. When he meets Alexandra Lopez, a ten-year-old America-loving girl facing deportation, he is inspired by his old friend, Murray McBride, to give her five wishes before she must leave.
They set out to check off as many wishes as possible, but when Jason’s transplanted heart begins to fail, he must choose between his obligations to the past and his hope for a future.
Jessica’s Review:
I adored The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride, so I immediately bought The Final Wish of Mr. Murray McBride on kindle. Final picks up immediately after Five Wishes ended, so we get a continuing story, this time with grown up Jason Cashman giving out wishes to a little girl who faces deportation along with her father.
I was a little nervous that the book was going to get political, but it really doesn’t other than the fact that we have a pending deportation. The reader also needs to drop any possible believability as the novel progresses. There are several things that happen in this novel that would not happen in ‘real life’. I can’t really say what without giving spoilers, but reading this novel was worth it in the end! And I felt a variety of emotions reading this novel and I enjoyed Jason’s continuing story. I came close to tearing up at the end, but Siple didn’t quite get me this time, but he did get me to ugly cry with Five Wishes.
The village that Alexandra and her father are from in El Remate, Guatemala is a real location and Siple ended the book with an author’s note that gives a personal experience with that village and an organization assists with the people of the village as well: Project Ixcanaan.
There is a prequel coming out in just over a week called The First Wish of Mr. Murray McBride that I will definitely be reading: Murray is back with us and we get to learn about his love story with his wife. I predict that I might cry with this one.