Book Review: Wake

By Lisa McMann. I downloaded it to my Kindle for iphone and read it in three days flat.

I loved it, and here's why:

1. She writes in a similar choppy sentence style that I do (maybe we're kindred spirits). Here's an example from the book:

Her mouth is open.

She snores lightly.

The bottle tips from her hand.


I'm a fan of choppiness as long as it's done well. And it is.


2. The premise of the book is unique and intriguing. Here's the blurb from Amazon:


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....


3. She does suspense and romance well. I judge my love of a book by how much I think about it when I'm away from it, and how much I look forward to getting back to it. This one did both for me!

If I had to complain about one thing it would be that I wish she explored the mother-daughter relationship more. But maybe that happens in the second book.

I look forward to reading the next two in the series, FADE and GONE!