wow so I lost my post on Lisa McMann but I guess I can just write it again :)

This author wrote the WAKE trilogy which contained the books WAKE, FADE, and GONE. Many people might find the details within the books a bit disturbing, but I feel that the author wanted a real highschool prospective which totally worked. I will seperate this trilogy into its books.

First up is WAKE. I read this book during my freshman year of highschool. This trilogy starts off with an introduction to the life of Janie Hannigan. This girl has issues, but she also has the ability of dreamcatching that is just uncontrolled at the moment. She doesn't think that anybody out there has the ability, but she is so wrong. Janie meets Cabel and they realize that they both have issues yet are perfect for each other for that reason. The plot sort of takes a shift into using Janie's gift to help catch bad people, the types of people who hide their secrets in their dreams. I really think that this was the best book out of the series and I should have stopped reading after this book, but I just had to know what happened in the others.

In Fade, the reader gets to see Janie's undercover life with Cabe. Janie is sent on a mission, not really for her dreamcatching, but rather to stop teachers at her highschool from using date-rape drugs on the students and then the students don't have a clue what happened. Guess what...Janie is sent as a student to one of the parties. Aside from the job, Janie starts discovering what she really is through the help of Ms. Stubin and even working on how to control the dreamcatching. If she continues the dreamcatching, bad things might happen and Janie has so much to lose.

Gone is more of a slow paced book. I personally thought it was pretty depressing. In this book, Janie wants to run away from dreamcatching and from her entire life. She finds out that her father is in the hospital and that he needs her to help him die even though he's in a coma. She finds out why her father really left and what has happened to him. Janie chooses to take control of her mother by becoming the parent of her mother. In the end, Janie has a decision to make. Will she run away from her entire life and what WILL happen if she continues dreamcatching or to stay and face everything with Cabe. I think the author wrapped this series up pretty nicely even though there aren't many surprises.