Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
The Queen of Wishful Thinking
Milly Johnson · 2017
78/100
👍 Worth It
Milly Johnson at her best means emotional abuse, infertility, and euthanasia woven into a warmly funny antiques-shop love story — it sounds like a contradiction, but she pulls it off, which is why she's a Sunday Times top-10 female fiction author. The serious subject matter is handled with care rather than sensationalism, and the second-chance romance is genuinely earned. Faith families should note the euthanasia subplot and mature themes before picking this up.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Mature themes: emotional abuse, euthanasia/assisted suicide, infidelity, infertility — not suitable for minors or faith-sensitive readers. We still scored it 78; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety65
substance80
craft84
originality72
accuracy82
hype78
age-fit70
human-eye84
Penny’s verdict78
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