Wake
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4.8 • 10 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The first book in the New York Times bestselling trilogy about Janie, who is able to slip into people’s dreams, and the secrets she learns and must come to terms with as a result of her mysterious ability.
Not all dreams are sweet.
For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people’s dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie’s seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.
She can’t tell anybody about what she does; they’d never believe her—or worse, they’d think she’s a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn’t want and can’t control.
Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else’s twisted psyche. She’s a participant…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The trick to getting hooked on this highly satisfying first novel is to look past its disjointed opening. The initial chapters consist of flashbacks into which are woven a series of repetitive scenes wherein Janie Hannagan is unwillingly sucked into others' dreams and nightmares, and suffers debilitating side effects. But as soon as McMann establishes Janie's strange skill, she throws just the right teen-centric ingredients into the story to propel it forward and grab readers. Tough and strong Janie, now 17, seems totally independent, charting a future that will lead away from her welfare mother's alcoholism. Her turbulent relationship with Cabel, the unwashed stoner boy-turned-handsome, pulsates with sexual tension problematized by Janie's knowledge of his insistent dreams about killing a man. But then Cabel learns to communicate his desires to Janie through lucid dreaming at just about the same time that Janie finds out that she can influence the dreams she enters. The plot twists keep coming, even if one or two are shopworn, and the writing has a Caroline Cooney like snap that's hard to resist. Ages 14-up.
Customer Reviews
Highly recommended for teen readers
As a kid, I wasn’t much of a reader, it was the first book that I enjoyed. I read it from beginning to end and then I read Fade, then Gone. I bought all 3 books in high school, now I’m 23 years and I still have them in great condition. I would like to pass them down to my own children one day.
wake, fade gone
This is FOR SURE my favorite book series! i own all 3 books! i have read all of them at least 10 times each, fade is my favourite