Wake by Lisa McMann

This book was another tip off from Kerry's book blog. Thanks again Kerry!

Wake is about a girl named Janie who experiences other people's dreams when they are sleeping. She herself doesn't dream, but I guess she doesn't need to if she sees everyone else's dreams. This story is about Janie exploring her ability as a "dream catcher" and how to live with it. She also develops a relationship with Cabel, the only person who knows about her secret. This was a fun and easy read (I finished it in a day) and also inspired a pretty awesome/creepy dream of my own. In my dream I was being sucked into other people's dreams and each time I changed dreams I quasi woke up and was totally disoriented. Then I was at work (but it wasn't really my work) and then I was bitten by a vampire! It felt like when they stick the needle in your arm when you give blood only I felt it pretty vividly in my neck. I had given blood just a couple days before, but I'm not sure where the vampire came from since I haven't read a vampire book in probably 6 months or more. I don't remember anything else but it was a pretty strange dream, all (or at least mostly) inspired by this book! I definitely want to read the sequels.

There were a couple things I didn't like so much, mostly being the author's writing style. She used a lot of fragment sentences and after awhile it bugged me. I also felt like this was a book that was written too quickly and thus didn't have much depth. It was fun and easy but I wish there was a little more umph to it, a little more complicated, more meaningful. But as it was I did enjoy the read, and it did inspire a fun dream, and I do want to read the sequels.

3 out of 5 stars