Michigan is next up on the tour with Lisa McMann's Wake.
Janie is a girl from the wrong side of town, who just happens to drop into people's dreams. It does not matter if she is wide awake when they start dreaming, she gets pulled into them. From dreams she learns some pretty crazy things about people, but none so bad as the nightmare she falls into one night on her way home from work.
She later has the nightmare again in study hall, and learns it is her classmate Cabel's dream. Cabel, who is a slight bit of a mystery, and has become quite the hottie their senior year of high school. After a intense nightmare on a class trip, she tells Cabel, what she has never told anyone else, that she experiences other people's dreams whether she wants to or not.
Cabel has secrets of his own, which keep pushing Janie away despite his serious crush on her.
Here is the thing I liked the characters, and I liked the story itself, but the writing style was awful.
Janie is strong and refuses to allow poor to be her lot in life. She works hard in school, and at her job so that she can go to college. She is nice, even to the girls who are not so nice to her. And she is loyal to be best friend, despite her best friend being a bit of a screw up at times.
Cabel is sensitive and sweet, and really is a good person even after all he has been through. He seems just perfect for Janie, there to pull her out and look after her when she has experienced this horrific nightmares.
The writing is a choppy, third person format. At times, the way scenes are describe, I felt like a creepy voyeur into Janie and Cabel's lives. I think this book would have benefitted from being written in first person from Janie's POV.
At the end of my copy was Cabel's Story, which is a short from Cabel's perspective on the field trip scene. I thought that was an excellent addition to the book.
Despite the terrible writing style, I do want to read the next book in the series because I liked the characters enough to want to know what happens to them.
Currently Reading:
I Am Number Four
by Pittacus Lore
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