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Title | Wake
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Author | Lisa McMann
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Cover Art | ---
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Publisher | Simon Pulse - 2008
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First Printing | Simon Pulse - 2008
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Title | Fade
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Author | Lisa McMann
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Cover Art | Sammy Yuen
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Publisher | Simon Pulse - 2009
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First Printing | Simon Pulse - 2009
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Title | Gone
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Author | Lisa McMann
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Cover Art | Sammy Yuen
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Publisher | Simon Pulse - 2010
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First Printing | Simon Pulse - 2010
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Title | Cabel's Story
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Author | Lisa McMann
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Cover Art | ---
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Publisher | Simon & Schuster Publishing - 2010
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First Printing | Simon & Schuster Publishing - 2010
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Category | Young Adult
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Warnings | Rape
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Main Characters | Janie, Cabel
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Main Elements | Humans with special powers
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Website | lisamcmann.com
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 Wake
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.
Fade
For Janie and Cabel, real life is getting tougher than the dreams. They're just trying to carve out a little (secret) time together, but no such luck.
Disturbing things are happening at Fieldridge High, yet nobody's talking. When Janie taps into a classmate's violent nightmares, the case finally breaks open -- but nothing goes as planned. Not even close. Janie's in way over her head, and Cabe's shocking behavior has grave consequences for them both.
Worse yet, Janie learns the truth about herself and her ability -- and it's bleak. Seriously, brutally bleak. Not only is her fate as a dream catcher sealed, but what's to come is way darker than she'd feared....
Wake
Open your eyes.
Janie thought she knew what her future held. And she thought she'd made her peace with it. But she can't handle dragging Cabel down with her.
She knows he will stay with her, despite what she sees in his dreams. He's amazing. And she's a train wreck. Janie sees only one way to give him the life he deserves: She has to disappear. And it's going to kill them both.
Then a stranger enters her life - and everything unravels. The future Janie once faced now has an ominous twist, and her choices are more dire than she'd ever thought possible. She alone must decide between the lesser of two evils. And time is running out...
Cabel's Story
A free online story by Lisa McMann. A companion to the first Dream Catcher novel, Wake, this is Cabel's perspective of the field trip that Janie and he took with their English class.
I read this book when it was available for free on RivetedLit.com. It had an interesting premise, a girl gets drawn into the dreams of any nearby sleepers, even when she herself is awake. Super annoying if you are trying to pay attention in class but the person next to you nods off, and of course incredibly dangerous if you happen to be driving a car when someone in a nearby house is having a nightmare of monsters and fire.
And of course as the girl struggles with this, the "bad boy" of the school has caught her attention and she his, so now she has to work on a relationship at the same time as figuring out what is tormenting him and whether or not she can help him with his demons while she struggles with her own. Is her power a curse? Or if she could learn to control it, to not be dragged into the dreams but to control them, could this power be used as a gift?
I can't think of too much to say about it, it was ok, I'm not that into angsty teenagers but I didn't want to throw the book at the wall either (good thing since I had to read the book on my computer). I am interested enough to read the other two books when Covid allows me access to my library again, but I'm not in a rush. To be fair, I'm not even sure where the next two books will go, I assume the second will be about learning more about her powers, but there has to be a goal, but at the moment she's not saving the world, nor knows enough about her power to have a certain level of skill to achieve, so I'm kind of curious where this trilogy can lead.
June 2021
Well, I have my first vaccine so decided which of those rivetedlit.com series I could finally continue. This was one where they had the whole trilogy. Thus I managed to get Fade...and hmm, I didn't recall the first book written in a kind of diary format, was it? If it was clearly it didn't bother me the first time around but this time I just found it very abrupt and choppy, and I think I wasn't in a frame of mind where I wanted to read about pedophile teachers...ok, not sure when I would be in that kind of mood but still, I found it incredibly depressing, and that was adding to a string of relatively dark books that I didn't particularly enjoy all in a row, so that didn't help. The angst didn't bother me this time, it felt completely justified. She lives with a single alcoholic mother, she works for the police (which is a perk) but in secret so she had to lie about everyone, and can't even been seen together with her boyfriend, and the dream catching is proving to have very serious physical side effects to which she seems pretty well doomed to suffer. Not sure where the third book will go but it can only be a best a bittersweet ending. On the positive, these books in their short sentence diary format is very quick to read so I might as well wrap up with Gone which I'm putting on reserve today.
June 2021
And done. I liked Gone better than Fade, but still didn't enjoy the choppy writing style of the pseudo-diary format. In fact, while quite suspenseful, it lost some of its edge when, because Janie had all the information to make the best choice about her future, something previous dream catchers didn't have. But see...life isn't like that, it doesn't conveniently explain all the options and consequences of your choices, we are all mostly fumbling around in the dark, and while Janie's choice all sucked big time, she could make the best choice. The rest of us have to rely on dumb luck, so I wasn't sure what we were supposed to get out of the story? Anyway, took me less than two days to read so was glad to see where the story ended up going, since I was so wondering about that after I read the first book.
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