Karla's Reviews

Wake
by Lisa McMann
Seventeen-year-old Janie gets sucked into other people's dreams, and she can't control it. Since the age of eight, she experiences everyone else's falling dreams, walking naked into class dreams, sex dreams, and nightmares. She has managed to keep her "condition" hidden for all these years, but now she is falling into a nightmare that is affecting her more than any other. Can she learn to control it? And what about Cabel, her newly attractive neighbor? What secrets is he hiding? Part mystery, part romance, and lots of the supernatural, I couldn't put this one down. I can't wait to read the next one!


What I Saw and How I Lied
by Judy Blundell
WWII is over and the soldiers are returning home, including Evie's step dad, Joe. Shortages are over, skirts are longer and fuller, and 15-year-old Evie can't wait to be like her glamorous mother. And then she meets and falls in love with Peter, a young soldier who served with Joe "over there." But Peter has secrets, grown-up secrets he shares with her parents, and when those secrets blow up in their faces, Evie is forced to grow up and make some very adult choices. I literally was up until 3 a.m. finishing this book...so good!

Karla Giraldéz, BCL