First review- Wake by Lisa McMann

Janie doesn’t dream. Well not exactly anyway. When someone around her falls asleep, she is sucked into their dream. She can’t control it and it’s getting annoying. When one of her favorite residents at the nursing home she works at dies and leaves her a mysterious note, Janie’s life is turned up-side down. Janie goes on a school trip to Canada and has a seizure on the bus. This forces her to reveal her secret to her crush, Cabel, who then admits that knew she was in his dream. Janie then goes on an adventure to discover her true powers and take hold of her life. But can she juggle being a “catcher”, her crush Cabel who is apparently selling drugs, and getting into college all at once?


At first I thought Wake was the perfect YA novel. It wasn’t scared of swearing, and tackling hard subjects. It was fast-paced and fun. But at the end it got really corny. The sex scenes were unbearably cliché, and the story-line became even more unrealistic than it already was. The author definitely did her research on dreams, but it didn’t have that paranormal feel I was hoping for. It was an OK quick read, and I’ll probably pick up the sequel at the library when it comes out, but I wouldn’t recommend it.