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Helpful Score: 1
Again, love the cover, and I think the third book in the series is awesome as well.
This is the second book in the YA series by Lisa McMann. The first was Wake and the third, Gone, will come out 2/9/2010. I think this series is being called the "Dream Catcher Series", but I could be mistaken.
After reading Wake, I had pretty low expectations for this book. Janie and her boyfriend Cabel are now working undercover at the high school to suss out a sexual predator who happens to also be a teacher at their school. Janie is using her new dream powers (she describes it as TiVo - she can pause and pan around the scene in a dream) to help with the investigation.
I thought that this book was a tad better than Wake and rated it at 3.5 stars. It was a very quick read at about 2 hours. I can't stand McMann's writing style. It is full of fragments (not that I am a grammar queen, far from it) and every paragraph. Has sentences. That end. Like. This. So, again, it was extremely choppy. At times, I would look at the dates and a few weeks or a month has gone by and we don't really know what happened during that time. I still have questions, mainly about Janie's relationship with her mother. Is there something more to it, or was it an easy way to allow Janie to come and go as she pleased? If so, not very creative from the author.
I was so glad that this book developed Janie and Cabel more. We know more about her powers, what she can do and the consequences of them. I really like Janie's friend, Carrie, but she was somewhat absent in this book. There is great information about being aware of date rape drugs. If you are uncomfortable with teens drinking and inappropriate sexual relationships, I would skip this one. There were definitely some creepy parts and it was a much darker book than the first.
Overall, it was a little better than okay and I will read Gone. I am interested in seeing where it will take us.
This is the second book in the YA series by Lisa McMann. The first was Wake and the third, Gone, will come out 2/9/2010. I think this series is being called the "Dream Catcher Series", but I could be mistaken.
After reading Wake, I had pretty low expectations for this book. Janie and her boyfriend Cabel are now working undercover at the high school to suss out a sexual predator who happens to also be a teacher at their school. Janie is using her new dream powers (she describes it as TiVo - she can pause and pan around the scene in a dream) to help with the investigation.
I thought that this book was a tad better than Wake and rated it at 3.5 stars. It was a very quick read at about 2 hours. I can't stand McMann's writing style. It is full of fragments (not that I am a grammar queen, far from it) and every paragraph. Has sentences. That end. Like. This. So, again, it was extremely choppy. At times, I would look at the dates and a few weeks or a month has gone by and we don't really know what happened during that time. I still have questions, mainly about Janie's relationship with her mother. Is there something more to it, or was it an easy way to allow Janie to come and go as she pleased? If so, not very creative from the author.
I was so glad that this book developed Janie and Cabel more. We know more about her powers, what she can do and the consequences of them. I really like Janie's friend, Carrie, but she was somewhat absent in this book. There is great information about being aware of date rape drugs. If you are uncomfortable with teens drinking and inappropriate sexual relationships, I would skip this one. There were definitely some creepy parts and it was a much darker book than the first.
Overall, it was a little better than okay and I will read Gone. I am interested in seeing where it will take us.
