The only thing I really didn't like about Janie is her inability to face one problem head on- Cabel. Rather than playing the victim about her "dream walking" (my own terminology) she gets proactive and uses it to her advantage. She was an active participant in her life. She works for her money and is putting every last ounce of energy she has into trying to get herself out of her situation. We were really living this life with Janie. Not only is this rare in YA, but it's super tricky to pull off believably and without it feeling like a gimmick. She's poor in the "I wonder if I can feed myself" sort of way. Janie is poor and not in the "my mom can't afford to get me designer clothes to match the other girls in school" sort of way. We see that not even Janie's body or sleep belongs to her and this is sad because we find out rather quickly that not much else belongs to her either. We are thrust directly into a dream in the beginning of the novel, much like how Janie is every time someone sleeps, and are shown firsthand how invasive this is not just for the dreamer but for the dreamer invader. McMann wanted to write a book the way she saw fit and din't let anything stop her from telling a raw, gritty story of a girl with a truly interesting problem. It takes so many "rules" of literature and throws them out the window.
Wake isn't necessarily spectacular for its plot or its character (though both of these things are good too) but rather how it is written.
After all, how well can you tell a story with so few words? Turns out, you can tell a story very well with fewer words. Picking up the 200+ page book, I wasn't expecting too much between the pages. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control. She can't tell anybody about what she does-they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. The Mini-Review: A quick enjoyable ride, Wake will have you staying up to figure out how to make Janie sleep!įor seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. I like the glowing quality to the letters.įirst Sentence: "Janie Hannangan's math book slips from her fingers." It looks good with the other covers and after reading the novel, I don't have a better one in mind but it was never something that jumped off the shelf.
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