Of Metal and Wishes is about this young girl, Wen, who lives and works in a slaughterhouse factory in China with her father who is the factory’s doctor. Supposedly, the slaughterhouse is haunted by the ghost of a young boy who died on the killing floor almost a decade prior and grants wishes to those who ask (or really, deserve). One day, Wen is humiliated by a boy from a group called the Noor (a hated lower class in China who works the dirtiest of jobs for cheap) and decides to test this so-called ghost and asks him to prove himself to her. She learns much more than she could have ever imagined and not necessarily in a good way. She finds out more about the “ghost,” learns her heart is not as hard as she thinks it is, and discovers more about herself than she ever thought.The book was an interesting one… It grabbed you in the beginning then lost you closer to the middle and dragged on only to pick back up and really pull you in to the point you could not put the book down. It can be very graphic (it is paranormal after all) but it makes the story very vivid and come to life. However, this book did not go according to how I thought it would and even the ending was somewhat surprising.
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