Wake by Lisa McMann

Wake (Wake, #1)

by Lisa McMann

For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams at any given moment is getting tired. Especially the falling dreams, and the standing-in-front-of-the-class-naked ones. But then there are the nightmares, the ones that chill her to the bone… like the one where she is in a strange house…in a dirty kitchen…and a sinister monster that edges ever closer. This is the nightmare that she keeps falling into, the one where, for the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant…

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4.5 stars

OK, this is why I love Janie : "But as scars go, it's in a perfectly sexy spot."

The whole story was pretty slow to take off, and I was a little confused by the time and date stamps in the beginning, but once I got a hang of it, I loved how different and right to the point it made it all.

Janie slips into people's dreams, and she has no idea why, how to get out of there, or what really happens to her. When she finally finds out she might be a catcher, the person who told her this - in a note - is dead.

Caleb is definitely not the boy-next-door, but he's still yummy, and I love how he works, and how much he likes Janie.

Although this is definitely YA, it is not the normal high-school drama that sometimes show up, and apart from Janie's dream-walking, there doesn't seem to be any supernatural stuff going on. It is good old-fashioned romantic suspens, and it is a very refreshing and fun read!

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