When We Wake by Karen Healey

This book was extremely disappointing. After having said that, I realize that you might now be wondering why I'm deciding to even waste time writing about it. Well... I suppose there could be several reasons for doing so. One could be my desire for you to know what you're getting yourself into should you choose to pick this title up. Another could be to give you the bare bones and my honest opinion in hopes that you'll be able to make a better decision. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean that everyone else will agree with me. For example, it appears that many, many people on Goodreads thought that this was a great read. We're all entitled to our opinions. I just happen to enjoy sharing mine :)

So! Let's see...

To start, this book had some great potential and sounds really exciting from the synopsis. I'm not going to lie; I really thought that I was in for a good read and that I'd found a new series I would really enjoy. Well, I got a few chapters in and I found out rather quickly that any hopes for really falling in love with this book had blown out the window (or whatever that expression is...). We're introduced to our narrator, Teegan, who is a high school girl living in the year 2027 who gets shot, frozen, and awoken some 100 years in the future. All through the book, the main character goes on and on, and on some more about how much she loves The Beatles. Ok. So we get it. I like them too, but I am very, very shocked that in the year 2127, they're still her all-time favorite group.

Then there's an aspect (which I won't totally give away) about the way the story is being told. It's in first person, but it's in first person for a reason. This reason makes a LOT of the plot points sort of pointless and really... ugh. OK, don't read any further if you think you want to read this book. She's leaving a podcast the entire time she's telling this story, and the podcast is intended to help "warn" people... um? Then why do you wast so much time talking about The Beatles and your crush? Pointless. There was so much potential.

I'm going to stop picking on this poor book now. It's not terrible. It's really not. You just feel let down when you're finished because it had a lot of potential and didn't really deliver.