Awakening (#1 of Chasing Yesterday)

I can’t vouch for all of the writer’s other series–just in case anyone searches Amazon or uses some other search engine (I’ve decided to stop using Google as a verb). I’m also hoping the next two books in the trilogy don’t do anything to make me regret this recommendation. With those caveats in mind: I really enjoyed this book.

If you want to read, or let your kids read (but you shouldn’t let them have all the fun) a scifi, conspiracy, paranoid novella, I think Awakening will serve you well. It has a little of the typical melodramatic over-writing that I think plagues YA publishing (and maybe even sells–how harshly can I criticize immature writing for the less mature?), but not much. And the story/mystery is quite engaging.

The story is about J.D., a roughly fourteen-year-old Jane Doe found at the site of an explosion who wakes up in the hospital without any memory. I can’t say too much more because I don’t want to print any spoilers.

Since I write a lot about Christianity on this blog, I suppose I should point out that I’m not claiming anything in that regard for this story. Just that it was a fun read and I want to read the sequels to find out what happens next. If you’re considering this for your child, my advice is to read it first and make your own decision. Authority figures don’t come off too well in this book, but of course, that’s what makes a story especially scary–when those who should be trustworthy and are supposed to care for you are not and do not.

In any case, the last Christian “novel” I looked at in a store had discussion questions included. God save us!

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