But then her dreams start to change – first, there’s Cabel who can see, speak to and remember Janie in his dreams.
As Janie grows older, this becomes more of a problem, especially in her study hall and at her job as an assistant at a nursing home. This understandably causes some big problems for Janie – when someone sleeps in class, behind her on the bus, or even has a nightmare and she’s driving by, she goes into something of a seizure, blind and paralyzed in body, she has to endure the entire dream with the dreamer in her mind. Anytime Janie is in close proximity to someone asleep, she immediately and uncontrollably gets sucked into their dreams.
Wake follows Janie, a seventeen-year old girl who has had little rest for most of her life. It is a very short book and I was done within two hours – and in those two hours I went through a rollercoaster of emotions: I laughed, I was angry, I was terrified and I cried at least twice. Thrilling is a damn good word to describe Wake as I was unable to put the book down after I started reading it.
Seriously, this is one thrilling little book – I gotta say, I enjoyed it.Īna:I too enjoyed Wake and quite a lot, actually. Wake‘s narrative style works beautifully with the type of story it is, and I found myself unable to put the book down. I was scared it would get kinda hokey, kinda quickly…but it didn’t. The format of the book is broken into headers under dates and times, in sort of an episodic, third person present tense play-by-play. Thea: My first thought when I started Wake was a little hesitant. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else’s twisted psyche. Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn’t want and can’t control. She can’t tell anybody about what she does - they’d never believe her, or worse, they’d think she’s a freak. Janie’s seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. And since both of us were intrigued, we decided on a joint review.įor seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people’s dreams is getting old. Why did we read this book: Both of us had seen the cover, the numerous reviews filled with praise across blogland, and found the premise pretty interesting. Stand alone or series: Book 1 of the Dream Catcher (Wake) trilogy. Publication Date: December 2008 (US) / October 2009 (UK) Publisher: Simon Pulse (US) / Simon & Schuster (UK)
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