Book Review 1: Wake

Wake is by Lisa McMann and it is about a lower class teenage girl who's mother is an alcoholic that sleeps all day and never comes out of her room. at a young age the girl starts getting sucked in to these dreams of other people and she doesn't know why. it begins to happen more and more the older she gets, she cant control it and soon it starts happening so much she gets sick and weak she cant eat or sleep. at her job at the nursing home she gets to know this sweet old lady who is paralyzed all over her body they become very close friends but just a short time after they become so close the lady dies. a few days later the girl goes in to work to find that the lady left her a box of her belongings when the girl opened the box it was all bout the things that the girl had been experiencing like getting sucked in to dreams not eating or sleeping. she reads every note there was to read. the lady had notes on how to control the dreams she got sucked into and how to change nightmares.the girl practiced over and over trying to change dreams and control them and she couldn't at first it was so hard for her but soon she got better. the lady had one note with things written down from the police department and soon discovered that she worked trying to catch criminals through their dreams and another note saying it was a good idea for her to fallow in the old Lady's footstep helping out the police. she goes to talk to the big boss at the police station and explains how she found out bout it all and they give her a job. in between the getting sucked into dreams she meets this strange boy who is also working with police undercover to try to bust drug dealers, they fall in love and he is very supportive of her and he would do anything to help her.