The Girl in a Coma

by John Moss

Allison Briscoe is your average fifteen-year-old-until someone tries to kill her. Shot in the head, her doctors and family think she is in a coma, but in fact, though she cannot move, she can think, she can hear, and she can dream.
Each night, Allison lives vicariously through her pioneer ancestors, experiencing their adventures through their eyes. First, she enters the world of Rebecca Haun, a fifteen-year-old rebel who lived in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War. To prove a friend innocent of murder, Rebecca betrays her Mennonite beliefs and joins the Women's Brigade with George Washington's rag-tag army at Valley Forge.
And each day, Allison struggles to find a way to show her family that she is awake—a goal that becomes increasingly desperate when she realizes that whoever shot her has come back to finish the job.

• ISBN10: 1929345240
• ISBN13: 9781929345243
• Publish Date: 2 September 2016 (first published 2 August 2016)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Poisoned Pen Press
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 320
• Language: English

Reviews

[Joni Reads]

Received from NetGalley for an honest review.
Did Not Finish.
I muddled through as best I could but this book was a real struggle. I couldn't get interested in the character and the weird flashbacks made it even harder. The concept was good, focusing on a coma patient and talking about whether or not they are coherent. That is what intrigued me in the first place. But the whole idea of her "sleeping" and time traveling to her ancestors and everything else that is thrown in there made this book really confusing. There comes a time when, if I dread to pick up the book to do some reading of it, I know it's not the book for me