Wake by Lisa McMann

Wake (The Wake Trilogy: Book 1) by Lisa McMann

Summary:  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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Review: Wake was a good book but several things held it back from being one of my favorite reads of the year. I really enjoyed the plot and thought the characters were okay. The writing was too simple for me, I felt like it was written for middle grade readers but the plot was developed for young adult readers. I rolled my eyes several times while reading the book and thought the dialogue wasn't realistic.

Overall, I wanted to give the book 4 stars but because it was too simple, the characters weren't that well developed and the dialogue was laughable at times. I am looking forward to the rest of the trilogy to see what will happen. 3.5/5 Stars

PS. The other two books in the trilogy are out now!