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roheenaaah's review against another edition
4.0
Honestly, I had very low standards for this book. I thought the cover looked slightly creepy and I wasn’t expecting much from it. But as they say, don’t judge a book by its cover... I. Could. Not. Put. It. Down! It was amazing! I finished it within two days and it was unlike anything I’ve read! A great dystopian!
mokey81's review against another edition
2.0
This story was poorly paced. The characters are only partially developed. And this is getting two stars for this sentence /alone/: “Abdi in his underwear. Mmm.” Ugh. I was actually thinking I’d found the only YA novel written in modern times without a romance involved. And then BAM!!! It went from zero to 60 in an instant. I won’t be reading the second book. I think there were interesting ideas here. I just didn’t enjoy the execution.
misssusan's review against another edition
4.0
man this is the kind of book i want to teach in english classes
like it tackles all these sort of current events type themes that my profs tend to use as a gauge of a book's quality but also manages to be really absorbing and just fun to read
it is basically political activism: the thesis
so like. excellent jumping ground for discussion!
also tegan's a great narrator, she is basically an action movie heroine with a social conscience
plus she has great friends, like me and bethari should hang. she can teach me all about future tech and i can enviously contemplate a twenty second century where anti-muslim prejudice is a thing of the past
(idk if i bought it exactly because i find it difficult to believe that anti-immigrant sentiment could get decoupled from racism and islamophobia; there's a lot of muslims in those third world countries people hate so much in this book. still a nice fantasy though)
plus outside that particular note i found healey's depiction of the future super plausible, good in some aspects, terrible in others, all in ways that feel like they could easily emerge from our current discourse
4 stars
like it tackles all these sort of current events type themes that my profs tend to use as a gauge of a book's quality but also manages to be really absorbing and just fun to read
it is basically political activism: the thesis
so like. excellent jumping ground for discussion!
also tegan's a great narrator, she is basically an action movie heroine with a social conscience
plus she has great friends, like me and bethari should hang. she can teach me all about future tech and i can enviously contemplate a twenty second century where anti-muslim prejudice is a thing of the past
(idk if i bought it exactly because i find it difficult to believe that anti-immigrant sentiment could get decoupled from racism and islamophobia; there's a lot of muslims in those third world countries people hate so much in this book. still a nice fantasy though)
plus outside that particular note i found healey's depiction of the future super plausible, good in some aspects, terrible in others, all in ways that feel like they could easily emerge from our current discourse
4 stars
angelvenicegold's review against another edition
4.0
incredibly interesting world but the resolution was a bit confusing and didn't go where i liked it but it's still interesting enough that I want to read the sequel.
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taque's review against another edition
3.0
Well-written, quick read, fun, but too preachy, especially at the end.
birosa's review against another edition
4.0
Wow, this book is really good. I can't wait until I get back to school so I can read the next book!
pollyroth's review against another edition
3.0
Ok....so this book must be really new...I was at Barnes and Noble and I'd never seen this dystopia before. I figured I'd give it a try.
So, Tegan lived in 2027. But then a sniper misses his intended target and hits her instead. She dies, yet she wakes up 100 years later, and it seems to her that it's only been hours. The whole world is different. The climates hotter, animals are dying, and technology has changed significantly. Tegan thinks she's helping bring soldiers back from the dead as military studies her. But slowly she learns the truth.
Characters
Tegan: She's one god damned stubborn person. She does not think before she acts; she just does. But you really pity her situation. I mean, imagine waking up one hundred years from today! In her first life she was a follower, and in this life she is more of a leader. But she is passionate about soldiers, and that's why the she was willing to help the government in the beginning. Her character development was not very strong, but you get the idea of what kind of girl she was supposed to be.
Abbi: You don't really see much of him until the last few chapters, but he is an independent person. He's a person from another country, only in Australia because he has an amazing voice. He shares Tegan's love of the Beetles, and painstakingly reminds Tegan of her old boyfriend, Dahmar.
Bethari: She's the only person in the new world Tegan finds herself in who's remotley nice to her. She's a lesbian, (which in 2127 is totally accepted by society) and a journalist. She is a whiz with computers and helps Tegan hack into the secret websites for information.
Plot
As I was reading this book, I kept thinking (and somewhat hoping) that everyone else who had been at that protest was frozen too. Then Tegan can be with Dahmar, and her life would be a lot better. Not to mention that it would make the stalled plot a lot more exciting. Sadly, it doesn't happen. The plot really didn't pick up until like half way through the book. Before that it was just Tegan blindly following orders, with the occasional "I won't eat" thing. By the time she was getting suspicious, I was really hoping that warehouse would hold something interesting inside. I got what I wanted partly. It was frozen people, but they weren't from 2027, or so it looks from this book. (I still have a little bit of hope left!) Once she's on the run it gets interesting...until they're stuck with the uber-religious people, who in real life annoy me, and in this book drive me insane!! And it once again, gets boring.
Writing
The thing that really bugged me about this book, was the poor writing. It wasn't descriptive at all! It skipped over a lot of MAJOR things that could have made this book more of a four star. I also didn't like how there were those occasional break in parts with Tegan in four weeks or whatever. It just confused you, if nothing else.
Conclusion
I know my review sounds mostly negative, but this wasn't a terrible book. It just wasn't one that I'm dieing to recommend to everyone either. It does have that dystopian feel to it, so dystopia readers should enjoy it for the most part. Oh, and since this book like JUST came out, I really don't recommend reading it for a couple of months because the release date for the second isn't even out yet.
So, Tegan lived in 2027. But then a sniper misses his intended target and hits her instead. She dies, yet she wakes up 100 years later, and it seems to her that it's only been hours. The whole world is different. The climates hotter, animals are dying, and technology has changed significantly. Tegan thinks she's helping bring soldiers back from the dead as military studies her. But slowly she learns the truth.
Characters
Tegan: She's one god damned stubborn person. She does not think before she acts; she just does. But you really pity her situation. I mean, imagine waking up one hundred years from today! In her first life she was a follower, and in this life she is more of a leader. But she is passionate about soldiers, and that's why the she was willing to help the government in the beginning. Her character development was not very strong, but you get the idea of what kind of girl she was supposed to be.
Abbi: You don't really see much of him until the last few chapters, but he is an independent person. He's a person from another country, only in Australia because he has an amazing voice. He shares Tegan's love of the Beetles, and painstakingly reminds Tegan of her old boyfriend, Dahmar.
Bethari: She's the only person in the new world Tegan finds herself in who's remotley nice to her. She's a lesbian, (which in 2127 is totally accepted by society) and a journalist. She is a whiz with computers and helps Tegan hack into the secret websites for information.
Plot
As I was reading this book, I kept thinking (and somewhat hoping) that everyone else who had been at that protest was frozen too. Then Tegan can be with Dahmar, and her life would be a lot better. Not to mention that it would make the stalled plot a lot more exciting. Sadly, it doesn't happen. The plot really didn't pick up until like half way through the book. Before that it was just Tegan blindly following orders, with the occasional "I won't eat" thing. By the time she was getting suspicious, I was really hoping that warehouse would hold something interesting inside. I got what I wanted partly. It was frozen people, but they weren't from 2027, or so it looks from this book. (I still have a little bit of hope left!) Once she's on the run it gets interesting...until they're stuck with the uber-religious people, who in real life annoy me, and in this book drive me insane!! And it once again, gets boring.
Writing
The thing that really bugged me about this book, was the poor writing. It wasn't descriptive at all! It skipped over a lot of MAJOR things that could have made this book more of a four star. I also didn't like how there were those occasional break in parts with Tegan in four weeks or whatever. It just confused you, if nothing else.
Conclusion
I know my review sounds mostly negative, but this wasn't a terrible book. It just wasn't one that I'm dieing to recommend to everyone either. It does have that dystopian feel to it, so dystopia readers should enjoy it for the most part. Oh, and since this book like JUST came out, I really don't recommend reading it for a couple of months because the release date for the second isn't even out yet.
lazygal's review against another edition
3.0
When you hear "this isn't your usual dystopia - this is different" there's a part that says "uh huh. prove it". I'll grant that this isn't the usual dystopia, and Healey certainly knows how to sell a story but, well, this isn't amazing.
Tegan (Teeg to her friends) lives in 2027, loves music (especially the Beatles), has just started going out with her brother's friend Dalmar and is into free running (the "non tricky flip" version of parkour). Then she's shot and suddenly it's 2127 and she's completely at sea. The problem isn't just that everything has changed, from slang and fashion to technology and the environment, or that her parents and family are long gone, it's that the army handles her waking up very, very badly. That's one of the problems I had with the book: the way the army treats her, as a suspect to be bullied rather than as someone to be cherished and promoted.
Another problem? There's a strong environmental message here, which makes sense since Healey is from Australia, where the climate has definitely changed over the past decade. It's just that this wouldn't be news in 2027, and we don't need to be hit over the head with it in 2127.
Final problem? The similarity of the Ark Project to Across the Universe (which is even the title of the chapter that talks about the project - someone should have caught that!). I wasn't thrilled with that book, which may have influenced my reaction to the end of this one.
ETA: Apparently, in the future, the internet really is a series of tubes!
ARC provided by publisher.
Tegan (Teeg to her friends) lives in 2027, loves music (especially the Beatles), has just started going out with her brother's friend Dalmar and is into free running (the "non tricky flip" version of parkour). Then she's shot and suddenly it's 2127 and she's completely at sea. The problem isn't just that everything has changed, from slang and fashion to technology and the environment, or that her parents and family are long gone, it's that the army handles her waking up very, very badly. That's one of the problems I had with the book: the way the army treats her, as a suspect to be bullied rather than as someone to be cherished and promoted.
Another problem? There's a strong environmental message here, which makes sense since Healey is from Australia, where the climate has definitely changed over the past decade. It's just that this wouldn't be news in 2027, and we don't need to be hit over the head with it in 2127.
Final problem? The similarity of the Ark Project to Across the Universe (which is even the title of the chapter that talks about the project - someone should have caught that!). I wasn't thrilled with that book, which may have influenced my reaction to the end of this one.
ETA: Apparently, in the future, the internet really is a series of tubes!
ARC provided by publisher.
mazza57's review against another edition
4.0
this is not my normal type of book but it grabbed my attention from the outset. A small cast of characters in the foreground with obviously more going on behind. This has a great narrative told with pace.
siobhan27's review against another edition
4.0
I will not lie here, so I will tell you that the cover of this book is what drew me to read this book. I rarely read a lot of synopsis', only because I think they spoil the book. Not always, but sometime I like not knowing what the book is about until I read the first page. And I am so glad I did that for this book.
What I loved most about this book was the fact that from teh very beginning, Healey made you love her characters from the very beginning. Tegan is smart, involved and a regular teenage girl who is in love with her brothers best friend. And it was those first couple of chapters that made the reality of the book that much harder. How would you feel about waking up one day and realize that everyone you ever knew was dead, and that you were 100 years into the future. Ya it would suck.
The concept of this novel was amazingly unique, and what I loved was that even though it was set 100 years into the future, life did not seem that much different than right now. It seemed very believable. I also loved the mystery and the reveal at the end. I honestly knew something as fishy about the people in charge but I just didn't know what it was. And I will say that I was surprised.
I constantly felt like I wanted to punch every person in this book (in a good way). The way they treated Tegan made me so angry and upset that I realized that I had so many invested emotions in this book. I wanted her to survive. I wanted her to break free of the restraints she had no control over.
Overall, When We Wake is a great science fiction novel that will leave you wanting to know more. It will take you on a roller-coaster of emotions and I cannot wait to see what comes next from this amazingly talented author!
What I loved most about this book was the fact that from teh very beginning, Healey made you love her characters from the very beginning. Tegan is smart, involved and a regular teenage girl who is in love with her brothers best friend. And it was those first couple of chapters that made the reality of the book that much harder. How would you feel about waking up one day and realize that everyone you ever knew was dead, and that you were 100 years into the future. Ya it would suck.
The concept of this novel was amazingly unique, and what I loved was that even though it was set 100 years into the future, life did not seem that much different than right now. It seemed very believable. I also loved the mystery and the reveal at the end. I honestly knew something as fishy about the people in charge but I just didn't know what it was. And I will say that I was surprised.
I constantly felt like I wanted to punch every person in this book (in a good way). The way they treated Tegan made me so angry and upset that I realized that I had so many invested emotions in this book. I wanted her to survive. I wanted her to break free of the restraints she had no control over.
Overall, When We Wake is a great science fiction novel that will leave you wanting to know more. It will take you on a roller-coaster of emotions and I cannot wait to see what comes next from this amazingly talented author!