Janie Hannagan is a 17-year-old with a secret—she can get into other people’s dreams.  In fact, she has no choice in the matter, getting sucked in whenever she is anywhere anybody is asleep and dreaming.  The dreams involving sex, being naked in public, or falling are the usual fare, but when she is driving her car one evening and gets sucked into a nightmare outside the house of the dreamer, things start to get serious.  She must discover who is having the dream and how she can come to terms with her power.

Told in laconic, short sentences, this book is easy to get into, and like the dreams it describes, difficult to get out of.  It is easy to empathize with Janie, a poor girl with an alcoholic mother, attending at a school where many other children are wealthy. Any teenager (or anybody else for that matter) can also identify with her feelings of being somehow "different."  Wake is not a long book., It’s quick to read but stays pleasantly in the memory afterwards and certainly would have appealed to me as a teenager, being easy to read, easy to identify with and easy to enjoy.  If you watch any of the current crop of supernatural TV series and enjoy urban fantasy or ghost stories, you will probably like this too and be glad to hear that a sequel, Fade, (Amazon US || UK) comes out in 2010.