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Title: Wake
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Manufacturer: Simon Pulse
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| Wake by Simon Pulse Great premise - I liked it more than Twilight | The light, spare prose in Wake takes getting used to, and while compulsively readable, doesn't always match up to the weight if its subject matter, or the potential gravity in some of its characters. But Wake does create something different: a mix between the fantastic-premise-meets-teen set-up of books like Twilight, and plot devices that will gather fans of Sixth Sense and Ghost Whisperer. However critical you want to be, there is no getting around that where Wake improves over similar books is in passing on 7/8ths of the over-extended romantic drama that bogs its better known predecessors down. You're left with a lean, enjoyable, well-plotted drama, and a main character, Janie, who maintains a firmer grip on herself and her friendships.
A pleasant surprise with this novel was its set-up for a sequel: not in the possibility, which seems nearly inevitable for YA fiction, but in the route taken to it, preparing the reader for a different sort of series. Twilight this is not, but Wake has an opportunity to send a few young readers toward the darker streets traveled by Dennis Lehane and Patricia Cornwell, which is company, I think, of higher caliber. | | Wake by Simon Pulse Awesome light read! | This is an awesome light read that I highly recommend! It's a wee bit hard on the swearing, but other than that, this is a very fun light read. And it's from a new and very nice author who writes very well!
Buy Wake! | | Wake by Simon Pulse You'll snap at poeple for interrupting you | I had my doubts, this is the kind of story line that can go very badly in the wrong writers hands. Lucky for us Lisa McMann is in the zone here. Granted this is not a long book, but I read it start to finish within a couple hours. I couldn't put it down. Another reviewer said that this book reads like watching a movie, and I couldn't agree more. Janie Hannagan is the kind of character that readers love, she draws you in and for the space of 224 pages her emotions are your emotions. The romance is sweet but not overpowering and really adds to the story instead of detracting from it.
McMann writes in a format similar to Stephenie Meyer The Twilight Collection (Twilight)kind of stream of consciousness, like writing in a journal. From what I can tell this is Lisa McMann's first published novel and if Wake is any indication she's deffinitely an author to watch. there will be a sequal to Wake and the auther's blog says it's dure out in the fall of this year titled Fade. | | Wake by Simon Pulse An Awesome Read- Exciting | An AnnaR Book Review- WAKE by Lisa McMann
Blessings come in many disguises. I am sick and sore and barely have enough energy to lie down comfy-like but I can read. Yesterday the new book for my teen board job with Simon-Pulse arrived. It was WAKE by Lisa McMann. What perfect timing!
I just love a book that sucks me in the first few pages. Well, when you read this be prepared to read it to the end. Don't start it before you are going to go out or really planning to do anything. Just set aside a few hours and know you are going to be on a thrill ride. It will give you a new perspective of dream sharing. I really related to Janie, the main character. My best friend Lizzy and I have had dreams where we are in each other's dreams. But nothing like Janie's ability. Or is it an ability or a curse? I am not going to tell you anything about the plot as there are surprises and twists and turns- just like a stupendous roller coaster ride. I can only say I am a hopeless romantic and I was very happy after reading the book- and that may be too much information.
Janie speaks like us and thinks like us and (hehe dreams like us sometimes- well, certainly not me. Ok, If all my dreams were made public I would be restricted for the rest of my natural life. And I would never be allowed to talk to my boy friend Nate again, ever. TMI). But, back to the book. I can't even list all the potential look up words for Amazon because it would give away some of the twists and turns. I know my friends who know me will rush out and buy this book. My author friends will also read it, I know- and they will love it.
It is well written. It has intriguing chapter cues, it is logical- I mean this could happen! At least I now think so. This is mysterious, exciting, romantic, enlightening and best of all fun.! Read it you won't be sorry. Let me know what you think. I love you all. I love everyone who bears their soul to the scrutiny of non-believers and writes from their heart. Keep the words and thoughts and emotions coming. I love you all. Ur AnnaR.
| | Wake by Simon Pulse Not what I was expecting, but in a good way | I don't really know what I was expecting from this book, but what I found was pretty amazing. The plot flowed like a dream in that it was told in minimalistic spurts that echoed a dream state. And the story itself wasn't quiet mystery or fantasy or romance, but seemed to combine all three in an entirely new genera.
Janie Hannagan is a dream catcher. She wakes into other people's nightmares and fantasies, yet she doesn't know what they expect her to do. From her best friend begging her to help save her drowning brother to the lonely old woman in the nursing home where she works asking for a second chance with a lover she lost in the war, Janie doesn't know if she can help any of these people turn their fears into happiness.
That is until she falls into burnout Cabel Strumheller's dream and finds out there are some secrets in Cabel's past and some hope for his future that she's not sure are nightmares or fantasies--and she doesn't know if she wants to find the truth either way. But Cabel's dreams aren't the only thing she finds herself falling into. With his protective instinct and deep brown eyes, Janie might just be falling in love.
I did find the exposition a little lacking in places so Janie's emotional extremes baffled me at times. And I don't want to give away the ending to explain what I thought about Cabel, but just know this is a definite series set up.
This book was a fast read with some great parts. It was a little reminiscent of Meg Cabot's 1-800-WHERE-R-YOU series, only with more substance. It was edgy like a Holly Black book and engaging like Janet Evanovich's Stehpanie Plum series, yet it was totally unique. I'm looking forward to FADE, and can't wait to see what comes after that. | | Wake by Simon Pulse Product Description | | 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.... |
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