time spent reading: 3.45 hours
pages read: 210
This book was not so great. It was on the level of the DaVinci Code or a Lifetime channel original movie - stupidly stupid but with mass appeal.
Janie discovers at a young age that whenever she gets near a sleeping person, she gets sucked into his dream, much to her chagrin. Most people dream they're naked in a room full of people, or that they're falling, or dream about their greatest desires and worst fears. Janie comes to know more about people, and perfect strangers, than she cares to.
Her senior year, Janie runs into a boy she used to know. He's had an extreme makeover, going from greasy goth guy to pulled-together, glasses-wearing cutie. The girls at school think he's a new kid, that's how well they recognize him. He and Janie grow close and eventually he learns her secret. Afterward, he seems to distance himself from Janie, and she learns through a friend that he is hooking up with her enemy and possibly selling dope. What's a girl to do?
I could deal with the short, choppy sentences and even the choppy storyline punctuated by dates and times, but I couldn't get used to the cheesy, inauthentic dialogue. Listen, nobody says 'rents. Nobody ever has. And meeting the Captain? That pushed this story far into the Lifetime television, paperback novel sold at your local grocery store or pharmacy. Finally, I find it unbelievable that there would be so many kids and adults who fall asleep napping at school and the office. Silly, silly, silly.
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