Wake (Wake Trilogy Series #1)
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...
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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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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781416595151 (1416595155)
ASIN: 9781416595151
Publish date: 04-03-2008
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Could have been so much better.The story proceeds with short bursts of action, some actually happening and some others just dreamed.Third person, present tense, composed of brief statements: this kind of writing, telegraphic and somewhat fractured, surely gives a dream-like quality to the narration....
http://divainpyjamas.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/wake-by-lisa-mcmann.htmlAt 224 pages, Wake reads as a novella, with mostly abrupt, stop start sentences...A little.Like.This.Which makes for a short and frustrating read. Having said that, I actually quite liked it. The premise was interesting, that of a ...