Real Teen Award
-Most Annoying Character in 2010: Cabel Strumheller
-Most Annoying Character in 2010: Cabel Strumheller
* New York Times Bestselling YA Series
* New York Times Bestseller
If you have not read Fade, then read at your own risk, this contains spoilers!
The Gist
To escape the stress of dream catchery, Janie takes a vacation with Cabel. And things are going fairly well – aside from Cabel’s disturbing dreams of the future – until Janie gets a few urgent calls from Carrie. And what might those desperate calls be about? Janie’s mother, of course. Go to the hospital. Your mom’s at the hospital was all Carrie would explain in her messages. So Janie rushes back home to find out what happened to her alcoholic mother to make her actually go to a hospital. But when Janie gets there, she finds out that her mother wasn’t the one in need of hospitalization. It was her father. In a dreary hospital room lies Henry Feingold; Janie’s absent father. He’s in a coma; his brain exploded. Literally. While trying to figure out the mystery that is her father, Janie accidentally/on purpose wanders into Cabel’s increasingly disturbing dreams – leading her to believe that Cabel doesn’t want to deal with her dream catching anymore. Janie can’t figure out what to do. Could her dad be a dream catcher, too? Is continuing to dream-catch really such a good idea? Or is there a better, safer way to deal with her curse? Why did her father’s brain explode? And should she stay with Cabel or leave him to save herself?
What We Think
What We Think
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Number of Pages: 214
Wow. The ending of that gist was extremely cheesy. I felt like one of those corny narrators that come on at the end of over-rated TV shows. Will Janie’s brain explode? Is the man in a coma really her father? And will Cabel leave her so he won’t be bothered by dreams? Tune in to the next exciting episode of Teenage Dream Catcher to find out! So weird. But I couldn’t think of a better way to end the gist. So there you go. Viola! Anyways, here we are. The third and final book of theWake/Dream Catcher trilogy. As far as ranking the books goes this one has to be my least favorite. The best was Fade. The second best wasWake. And the worst was Gone. As far as plot I really only have one thing to say: repetitive. The same things happened over and over again. She broke into her dad’s house. She visited her dad in the hospital. She cried over Cabel. She broke into her dad’s house. Visited him at the hospital. Then cried about Cabel some more. It took me forever to finish this book not because of the length (a slightly-below-average length) but because of how boring listening to Janie whine was. “I’m going to mourn over the father I never had. Now I’m going to leave Cabel so I can live alone in a moldy cottage deep in the forest. Wait, no! I just remembered I LOVE CABEL!” Argh, enough already! I got the point the twentieth time you said that. But I guess that has more to do with character than plot….ah it’s all related somehow. Whatever. But since I brought up characters….they weren’t likable. Now, in any of the books, I had never thought of Janie as a strong character that I genuinely liked. She was always just kind of there. In this book, she had that annoying quality of just being there and not doing much…but she had also figured out how to whine like there was no tomorrow. I can cut her some slack because losing your eyesight and use of your hands would really stink. But seriously. Enough is enough. Yes, the characters have to be believable so some complaining should be tolerated, but at the same time, your characters have to be likeable. Constant whining and complaining is the best way to make the reader dislike the character. Moving on from Janie, Cabel was generally okay despite the fact he cried way too much for my liking. The first few times I felt bad for him. But after a while my patience wore thin. No offense dude, but maybe this is why she’s thinking about leaving you in the first place! All she ever does is watch him cry. WHERE HAVE ALL THE SANE CHARACTERS GONE? Overall I think just the first two books alone would have been fine. This one really wasn’t needed. Only one half-answered question was fully answered. But until I started reading this book, I had thought every problem had a solution and every question had an answer. Apparently not. But yeah, in my opinion this book was pretty superfluous ( I love that word). Okay, so this review might make it seem like I really hated this book. But I didn’t. I finished it, didn’t I? In comparison to the others in the trilogy, this book wasn’t good. But without comparing it to anything I find it very average. Which isn’t good, but isn’t horrendous either. To end on a good note, the cover and the title were (as always) perfect and dramatic. So read this finale to the Dream Catcher trilogy because….eh. I tried to think of a witty pun having to do with the word gone….but I couldn’t come up with anything. Oh, well. Read the book and be done with it!
Real Teen Rating~ C : Ehhh….
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