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Fade

by Lisa McMann

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Series: Wake Trilogy (2)

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Using her ability to tap into other people's dreams, eighteen-year-old Janie investigates an alleged sex ring at her high school that involves teachers using the date rape drug on students.
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I liked this book better than the first one but not enough. The writing was a bit better and there was actually a plot but I found it didn’t really go with the first one. The plot is completely ridiculous. Two teenagers are undercover for the police? I don’t think that’s how it works. There isn’t as much focus on the dreams anymore in this one. It’s all about finding out which teacher is the rapist. This might ruin the book for you but it’s basically all of them. It’s so stupid. Not only is there one rapist but three. Like that actually happens. Plus you suspect every single one of them from the start so it’s not even a surprise.

Then there’s the characters. Oh dear. They need to seriously chill. They whine too much about putting each other in danger it’s ridiculous. They even break up because of it. Relationships do not work like that. I love you but you trouble seems to always find you so I’m breaking up with you but wait! Just kidding! I love you too much so let’s get together again. Yea. Right. Good try.

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  chelssicle | Nov 14, 2024 |
I'm so glad I kept going with this series. I just absolutely love this author and her writing style. The characters are quirky and funny but they are also flawed and real. The world is so all-consuming, I never want to put the book down

I can't believe the next one will be the last....I can't wait to read it! ( )
  Trisha_Thomas | Nov 14, 2024 |
Although not as good as this first one, I really enjoyed this book and the author did a great job wrapping up the story. ( )
  cdeboard | May 29, 2024 |
The story starts off just where the last one ended, and boy am I glad for that! I love series books that don't skip a whole lot and make you wonder what happened between one book and the next.
Fade starts of with finishing up the whole drug bust thing from Wake, and then moves right into the next case for Janie and Cabel ( they are working for the police). Of course I was on Cabel's side with not wanting Janie to get mixed up with this case, but then I really thought about it and figured that if something like that was going on at my daughter's school, I would want someone there to try and put an end to it.
And really, I won't play the naive parent and pretend that this sort of thing doesn't happen, I know it does, and that Mrs. McMann brought it to light in this book is a huge plus from my end!
Janie is still slipping into others' dreams and she is slowly learning to bring herself out of them. Although she has trouble and can't seem to get out of the nightmares. While working the case of the perv teachers, Janie is given the case files of the previous dream catcher, Miss Stubin; and while reading them she learns more than she wanted to.
As the blurb stated on goodreads, Cabel and Janie are together, but for their undercover work to actually work they have to keep everything a secret. So while they do get to spend some time together, they can't been seen together in public, so everything goes on behind the closed doors of Cabel's house.
Janie jumps right in with the case and very quickly figures out which teacher is her _target. That part kinda irked me, I mean heck it took like a week if that for her to get the teacher to make a move, and really; you would like to think that the "adult" would take more time. Anyway, Janie sets it up to be alone with him just to make sure and once she has her confirmation she moves forward and gets everyone in that class ready for the party at the teacher's house ( big red flag there)!! With the party approaching, Cable is getting kinda freaked out, with good reason. While Janie feels that everything will be ok and that nothing will happen to her, she still has a few doubts.
When the party day is there, Janie does everything like she is supposed to, no mysterious drinks, doesn't leave her drink unattended and won't take anything from anyone. But things still go bad for Janie, and while not everything is in great detail, you get enough to know what is going on.
After the party, and everything that goes down; Janie wakes up in the hospital; yeah, you guessed it, she ended up getting drugged anyway. She doesn't really remember what happened at first and even when she does, she doesn't have all the details; which in itself is a good and bad thing. Cabel has a hard time dealing with it and again, they aren't speaking; after he asks for a break.During the break, Janie is lost and confused as to why he would do this to her, and in a sense I feel that she starts to blame herself. With the extra time on her hands she sits down to read the "journal" that Miss Stubin left behind and learns a few things about being a dream catcher, though they aren't really what she wants to know. ANd once she realizes exactly what will happen to her, and a rough time frame in which to expect it, she kinda breaks down.
The story starts to wrap up pretty quickly, all the teachers involved at the party are arrested, and suspended without pay from the school. Cabel and Janie make up as only they can, Janie tells Cabel what to expect with the dream catching and then they are graduating. I'm so glad that I have the next and final book Gone already and can't wait to start reading it. ( )
  chaoticmel | May 18, 2024 |
You know how sometimes when you start a book (or series) and you get a little drop in your stomach that seems to grow worse with each page turned? I kind of have that feeling for the Wake series. Even the parts which are 'good' moments for Janie are tainted with the future knowledge that things can get worse. And this is before we find out (or Janie acknowledges what readers might have guessed at) what the future has for Janie and her power as a Dream-Catcher.

For Janie, what's happening to her isn't as apparent as it is to others (Cabel and the reader, even the Captain) and that's understandable. She's falling into worse nightmares and where as before she just fought to get out of them, now she feels as if she must help the person and the defeat she feels when she can't is crushing. These aren't random people to her anymore, they might just be classmates, but Janie wants to help them. She wants to give them peace of mind.

The menace in this book is frightening in a very real world sense. McMann is able to slowly build the threat--we learn as Janie learns about the crimes being committed or the crime about to be committed. Cabel's tenseness is also felt as he struggles to both protect Janie and give her freedom. As their feelings grow deeper and they both take more risks I worried for them.

The third book, Gone, is due out in February of 2010-sooo far away! I'm hesitant though to want to read it since the dropping sensation I felt since the first book has grown immensely and there isn't much to recommend that the ending will be anything but bittersweet. ( )
  lexilewords | Dec 28, 2023 |
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