Gone by Lisa McMann

Author: Lisa McMann

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Rated 6/10

 Things should be great for Janie—she has graduated from high school and is spending her summer with Cabel, the guy she's totally in love with. But deep down she's panicking about how she's going to survive her future when getting sucked into other people's dreams is really starting to take its toll.

Things get even more complicated when she meets her father for the very first time—and he's in a coma. As Janie uncovers his secret past, she begins to realize that the choice thought she had has more dire consequences than she ever imagined.

MY REVIEW
This is the third and final book in the Wake trilogy. It was an OK book, not the best or the worst I have read. The ending was pretty good but I had to force myself to read the first half. Out of all the books in this series the first was the best. It's the summer after she narked on the teachers at her high school who were drugging and raping students at parties they threw. She is vacationing with her boyfreind Cabel when she is called home because the father she never knew is in a coma and dying. Janie soon figures out he is a dream catcher as well by entering his dreams and that there is another option instead of losing her hands and eye sight. She soon realizes though that her other option may not be any better than her first option.

Fade by Lisa McMann

Author: Lisa McMann

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Rated 4/10

For Janie and Cabel, real life is getting tougher than the dreams. They’re just trying to carve out a little (secret) time together, but no such luck

Disturbing things are happening at Fieldridge High, yet nobody’s talking. When Janie taps into a classmate’s violent nightmares, the case finally breaks open – but nothing goes as planned. Not even close. Janie’s in way over her head, and Cabel’s shocking behavior has grave consequences for them both.

Worse yet, Janie learns the truth about herself and her ability – and it’s bleak. Seriously, brutally bleak. Not only is her fate as a dream catcher sealed, but what’s to come is way darker than she’d feared…

MY REVIEW
This is the second book in the Wake trilogy. I didn't really like this book all too much, it wasn't that it was terrible but to me it was boring in way too many places and seemed forced at times. Now I know a lot of people who read this book are gonna tell me different,but that just the way I feel about it.I've already checked out the third book, so I'll read it and see how it all ends,maybe I might like it more. Janie is in her senior year of high school and working as a nark with her boyfriend Cabel. They are assigned to work a case where they think there is a sexual predator at the school. Soon Janie comes to believe it is Mr. Durbin,her Chem teacher. She gets him to think she's in to him and at a party he throws for his students she learns the shocking truth of what is really happening. And learns how being a dream catcher is going to affect her health and future,for the better and the worse. Now all that being said most people are going to like this book,I suggest you read it and find out for yourself.

Wake by Lisa McMann

Author: Lisa McMann

Reading level: Young Adult

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Rated 8/10

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…

MY REVIEW
This is the first book in the Wake trilogy. I liked this book, it was fast paced and an easy read. The story and writing style is kinda simple but it was really nice and the characters grew on me. I loved the fact there wasn't too much happening at once. Seventeen year old Janie lives at home with her mom on the poor side of town. Ever since she could remember since the age of eight years old she has been sucked into people's dreams not able to do anything but watch. Janie soons starts to like Cabel, a boy who's a year older and a giant mystery to her(she thinks he's selling drugs). Soon Janie is sucked into his dreams at school and grows closer to him. She learns about him and all his secrets and even how to control the dreams she are put into. Don't want to give it all away,if you're looking for something simple yet nice then this book is for you! I can't wait to start on the sequel!!!!