Suche books:   





Wake
Lisa McMann

Simon Pulse, 2008 - 224 pages

average customer review:based on 32 reviews
view larger image
 for more information click here

   highly recommended  highly recommended





An eye catching book...

I saw this book pulled out on a shelf at a book store, and I thought the cover looked really cool. I know you're not supposed to judge a book by it's cover, but I did. I read the back, then the inside cover, and immediately decided that I wanted it. I read the whole thing in like an hour that day. It was great! The story is really, really cool, and fresh. I'm tired of all the stories that sound just like Harry Potter. This was totally different and I loved it. I can't wait until the next one comes out!


Unbelievably Amazing!

Wake is about a girl named Janie with an unusual gift to be transported into the dreams of people who fall asleep near her. All of her life, Janie saw her gift as a curse. It made being socially excepted even harder. Also, Janie knew that she would have to keep her gift a secret, because if anyone, even her own mother, knew what she could do, it would result in disaster.
Then the amazing happened: Janie let someone in on her secret, his name was Cabel, and Janie was starting to fall for him. Cabel kept Janie's secret, but as soon as she finally started to let him get close to her, he messed up.
Through a series of seemingly random events, Janie starts to see her gift in a new light. She realizes that she might be able to do good. The risk: her secret might be exposed.
This book was AMAZING! I loved it, and I can read it over and over. Wake will awaken the avid reader in all of us.


 for more information click here









 for more information click here


When life is not a dream

Adolescents beware: Lisa McMann knows you. She knows your insecurities. She knows how you might look so together, yet be so screwed up.

This is why Wake rang so true for me--because I remember what it was like to be 15, 16, 17. It wasn't a lovely, dreamy existence; it was somewhat akin to living in a shark tank.

So I can relate to Janie's fear that she's a freak. It makes sense; she slips into other people's dreams, after all. Nasty, nasty dreams. Makes it kind of hard to look a friend in the eyes, when you've seen him beating his father to a pulp.

As an adult, I can also relate to Janie's dismissal of adults. She has yet to learn that we're all just older teenagers. So when McMann skillfully adds a touch of mystery, now and then, to the actions of Janie's miserably inept mother, I love it. Funny stuff. Well-written stuff. Scary stuff. Surprisingly believable fantasy stuff.

Can't wait for the next book.

And I'm 60 years old.

Susan O'Neill, author: Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam


 for more information click here






Love it, Great book

This book grabs you from the first page and you are drawn into Janie's story the way Janie is drawn into dreams.
The writing style is very clean and not a word wasted; no flowery purple prose here.

Can't wait for Fade.



reviews: page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7



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 is a participant....


 for more information click here



hot or not?    What's your opinion?     Write a review and share your thoughts!



recommendations

Some of my favorite supernatural books.
YA Urban Fantasy: Old and New Part 2
Every Book Is A Different Story
Late 2008/2009 YA Books
Best SciFi for Teens




wake

Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist ...
Wake Up Now
Wake Up, World!: A Day in the Life of Children Around the World
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)



search for books
wake


Impressum / about us


Suche books: