Fade

I remember devouring Wake because of the author's snappy, fast-paced voice and the plot intrigued me too (Janie gets sucked into people's dreams.)

Considering I read Fade, the sequel, in a few hours, the fast-pace voice sucked me in again.

I didn't find Fade quite as riveting as Wake but still an excellent read.

I expected to like this book as much as I did Wake, the previous book in the series, but I really didn't. It began with the police captain suggesting that the then-17-year-old, newly employed-by-the-police, completely untrained high schooler act as bait for a sexual predator. I simply cannot buy that, especially since the captain is being built up as a sort of motherish figure. It took me right out of the story, and continued to do so throughout the book, when the main character is encouraged to flirt with a suspected rapist and is offered no more preparation for what grows to be an ever more appallingly dangerous task than a few brochures on date-rape drugs and a gift certificate for self-defense classes, both of which feel like afterthoughts. I just plain have a really hard time buying that a police captain, and an apparently somewhat caring woman, would so willingly put a seriously unprepared teenager in so vulnerable and dangerous a position. Especially since all they've got to go on is two phone calls to a crime hotline, one of which is almost entirely unintelligible, the second of which is interpretable in a couple of ways, the most likely-seeming to me being completely benign. I'm all for going the extra mile when kids might possibly be in danger, even if it's only a slim hint like I feel this was, but jumping straight to putting another teenager, even a willing one, in the line of fire? I just don't buy it. It also made it a lot more difficult for me to take the story seriously as a whole, making me far more skeptical of characters I'd thought were fine before, but which now seem underdeveloped.

I have a few other minor complaints, but since this is the one that completely ruined the novel for me, they don't really matter much.

enjoy this book more than the 1st book.