A review by nicolesottiriou
When We Wake by Karen Healey
5.0
I love the Beatles references made throughout the book. The characters are diverse and priceless. I always loved Joph, but I loved her even more when I discovered her true self towards the end of the book.
This book has so many great lines. I couldn't help but mark them up and underline them. It's a great dystopian novel that speaks to our world today. There are so many things going on: the denial of human rights, the massacre of people deemed less human than others, the overuse of Earth's precious resources. We know it, yet we don't do anything, myself included. Healy writes, "Thinking about and fighting some of the world's multiple horrors had made my life more painful. But it was a much larger life than I would have lived otherwise" (252). We can live our silent lives of ignorance. Or, we can do something to change things. I still don't know what choice I'd make, but it's something I'll be thinking about for a long time.
This book has so many great lines. I couldn't help but mark them up and underline them. It's a great dystopian novel that speaks to our world today. There are so many things going on: the denial of human rights, the massacre of people deemed less human than others, the overuse of Earth's precious resources. We know it, yet we don't do anything, myself included. Healy writes, "Thinking about and fighting some of the world's multiple horrors had made my life more painful. But it was a much larger life than I would have lived otherwise" (252). We can live our silent lives of ignorance. Or, we can do something to change things. I still don't know what choice I'd make, but it's something I'll be thinking about for a long time.