A haunted castle, a handsome young man dead for four hundred years, one heck of a scary portrait of a witch, and a treasure hunt -- not to mention ...
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Apr 21, 2011
~Tina~
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What I thought was suppose to be a haunting love story, turned out to be something different, and not at all what I was expecting. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but sadly I couldn't love this as much as I wanted too.
Lisa Cach is a very skilled writer and the dedication to her historical details was very impressive. But I found it a bit to formal and dry and it didn't quite have that desired punch to keep me engaged.
The plot line is very clever and I enjoyed the ghostly mysteries More...
Lisa Cach is a very skilled writer and the dedication to her historical details was very impressive. But I found it a bit to formal and dry and it didn't quite have that desired punch to keep me engaged.
The plot line is very clever and I enjoyed the ghostly mysteries More...
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May 24, 2011
Krys
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I started Lisa Cach's Wake Unto Me yesterday morning and I just finished it up. It was...ok... the book started out with such promise but fell kinda flat two thirds through.
Caitlyn has always felt out of place in Oregon. She studies the past, art and history, like some girls study fashion magazines and pop culture. A good evening to her is reading a book of fine art while listening to Chopin. When she gets an opportunity to study at a prestigious boarding school in France she jumps o More...
Caitlyn has always felt out of place in Oregon. She studies the past, art and history, like some girls study fashion magazines and pop culture. A good evening to her is reading a book of fine art while listening to Chopin. When she gets an opportunity to study at a prestigious boarding school in France she jumps o More...
May 03, 2011
Nic
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I really wanted to like this. I had heard so many great reviews on blogs but I was BORED. I felt like I was studying a history book. It may have just been due to the fact that historical genre is not my thing (but then again I have just read two historical books this week and loved them) so I don't think that is the case. The concept had potential but it needed to have writing More...
I really wanted to like this. I had heard so many great reviews on blogs but I was BORED. I felt like I was studying a history book. It may have just been due to the fact that historical genre is not my thing (but then again I have just read two historical books this week and loved them) so I don't think that is the case. The concept had potential but it needed to have writing More...
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Apr 09, 2011
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An unexpected, work-related reading assigment turned up, which I will use as an excuse to abandon this book after 72 pages, although I wanted to let it simmer on my bedside table for a while.
Is it so bad, you ask? Oh, it's not bad.
- I just don't care for bordom-school (oops) boarding-school stories at the moment - especially not for those including blue-blooded royal-bitch-room-mates
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Is it so bad, you ask? Oh, it's not bad.
- I just don't care for bordom-school (oops) boarding-school stories at the moment - especially not for those including blue-blooded royal-bitch-room-mates
- the moody, goth-like, thrift-store addicted, I-am-different-from-everybody-else-where-is More...
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Nov 10, 2011
Valorie
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Wake Unto Me is a completely enticing romantic read that I want to dive into over and over again. I was so swept up into the mystery of the book and the romance that I found myself thinking about it even when I wasn’t reading.
I have to give a serious high five to Lisa Cach when it comes to the setting of this book. France is depicted so beautifully it was as if I traveled there while reading the book. I felt myself drawn to the deadly yet mysterious castle. I could imagine my finger More...
I have to give a serious high five to Lisa Cach when it comes to the setting of this book. France is depicted so beautifully it was as if I traveled there while reading the book. I felt myself drawn to the deadly yet mysterious castle. I could imagine my finger More...
Jan 10, 2012
Lucie
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This book left me perplexed. A nice and original story, but ... It is this "but" that made me undecided and confused.
On the one hand, I liked the style and the written skills of the author. She beautifully depicts moods, places and ages. Lisa Cach throws the reader into a temporal rift, like if you were at the wheel of a time travel machine. Caitlyn goes from nowadays Oregon to meandering of the sixteenth century in France. The young lady does her best to More...
This book left me perplexed. A nice and original story, but ... It is this "but" that made me undecided and confused.
On the one hand, I liked the style and the written skills of the author. She beautifully depicts moods, places and ages. Lisa Cach throws the reader into a temporal rift, like if you were at the wheel of a time travel machine. Caitlyn goes from nowadays Oregon to meandering of the sixteenth century in France. The young lady does her best to More...
Dec 19, 2011
Hylary
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Fifteen-year-old Caitlyn Monahan feels misunderstood by everyone in her small Oregon town. Nicknamed “moan-and-groan” for her constant depressive mood, Caitlyn wants nothing more than to escape someplace where she won’t be an outcast and where the strange dreams and nightmares that have plagued her for years won’t haunt her every waking moment. One day, Caitlyn receives a strange e-mai More...
Fifteen-year-old Caitlyn Monahan feels misunderstood by everyone in her small Oregon town. Nicknamed “moan-and-groan” for her constant depressive mood, Caitlyn wants nothing more than to escape someplace where she won’t be an outcast and where the strange dreams and nightmares that have plagued her for years won’t haunt her every waking moment. One day, Caitlyn receives a strange e-mai More...
Nov 03, 2011
Harmony
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Wake Unto Me is the story of Caitlin moving from her small town in Oregon where it seems like no one understands her, to the rural boarding school called the Chateau De La Fortune in France, where crazy ghosts stories and mysterious dreams begin to haunt her. The beginning is a bit slow, but once it gets you, you don't be able to stop!
Caitlin was a little hard for her to relate too, since while she was in Oregon, I found her melodramatic. She was really "woe is me" and until More...
Caitlin was a little hard for her to relate too, since while she was in Oregon, I found her melodramatic. She was really "woe is me" and until More...
Oct 15, 2011
Elizabeth
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First off, I want to think Jessica of Chapter Chicks (blog, youtube) for sending me this book. She wanted to know my opinion, so here it is!
Wake Unto Me is about this girl who feels like a total outcast because she can’t relate to anyone around her, even the two girls who are supposedly her best friends. Then one day, a letter came in the mail about this amazing opportunity to go to Fortune School in France! She thinks it’s any old boarding school until she starts having these ver More...
Wake Unto Me is about this girl who feels like a total outcast because she can’t relate to anyone around her, even the two girls who are supposedly her best friends. Then one day, a letter came in the mail about this amazing opportunity to go to Fortune School in France! She thinks it’s any old boarding school until she starts having these ver More...
Jul 31, 2011
Mariana
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Caitlyn feels out of place. A lot of girls her age do, right? No big deal. Well for Caitlyn is, she feels out of place not only in school but in general. When she´s accepted in the Fortune School, in France, she feels like she belongs, finally. But things wait for her inside the walls, things she never thought of.
Wake Unto Me was a very promising book. I normally don’t read about ghost, but it looked very interesting. And it was, the first approach we have to the story settles a lot More...
Wake Unto Me was a very promising book. I normally don’t read about ghost, but it looked very interesting. And it was, the first approach we have to the story settles a lot More...
Jul 17, 2011
Linda
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Cash writes with great attention to historical detail. The setting of the story couldn't be better, and the characters, while most of them don't really appear to be alive and leaping off the pages (many characters only exist in Caitlyn's dreams anyway), are written with just enough detail to tell the story. However, the interplay between the past (400 years ago) and the present is amazing, and readers can't deny how a certain hand of fate is making the romance in this story possible.
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May 26, 2011
Deltay
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Ghosts, an exotic locale, a mystery... Lisa Cach's Wake Unto Me has all the trappings of a deliciously dark story well worthy of its creepy cover1.
There's a lot of controversy in the literary world regarding prologues, usually against them. But Wake Unto Me is one example, I think, in which the prologue works quite well. Cach starts out the novel on an ominous note, which from the very get-go leaves the reader curious about the tone of the rest of the story. The fact that the majority More...
There's a lot of controversy in the literary world regarding prologues, usually against them. But Wake Unto Me is one example, I think, in which the prologue works quite well. Cach starts out the novel on an ominous note, which from the very get-go leaves the reader curious about the tone of the rest of the story. The fact that the majority More...
Mar 15, 2011
Rachel
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If it wasn't for the good reviews, I wouldn't have read Wake Unto Me. I've been seeing this a lot in other book blogs, but never had it never caught my interest. I didn't even know it was about witches and ghosts and french boarding schools until I read it. You know when you have no idea what a book is about, and yet, out of nowhere, the urge to start reading it attacks you? And then when you read it, bam! You're blown away. That was exactly how I met this book.
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Mar 15, 2011
Dawn
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Have you ever felt like you just didn't belong? That's how Caitlin feels in WAKE UNTO ME. Her parents have three rowdy boys involved in sports and they think Caitlin might be a little...unbalanced. It's not that her parents don't love her, they just don't know what to do with her. See, she has these dreams - sometimes terrifying nightmares and sometimes wonderful escapes into the history of Oregon (where she lives). When Caitlin gets a full-ride scholarship to a fancy boarding school in Franc
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Apr 12, 2011
Jessica
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Lisa Cach's debut YA novel, Wake Unto Me, was a very nice "ghost story" novel. When I first saw the cover months ago I was immediately hooked. It reminded me of Jenny Carroll/Meg Cabot's The Mediator series with a girl and a ghost, so I was looking forward to reading it and it was a rather fast read too!
Caitlyn is really kind of your average girl at school, although she has two good friends, other people make fun of her for no reason really, and when the opportunity comes to More...
Caitlyn is really kind of your average girl at school, although she has two good friends, other people make fun of her for no reason really, and when the opportunity comes to More...
Apr 26, 2011
Truly Bookish
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In Wake Unto Me, we meet Caitlyn Monahan, a 15-year-old girl who knows she is different from everyone else and always feels misunderstood and alone. She has very vivid, frightening dreams that feel very real to her but in the past, when she told her father and stepmother about them, they thought she was going crazy. Caitlyn is desperate to get away from her small Oregon town and when she gets an unsolicited and fully paid offer to attend an exclusive private school in France, she jumps at the ch
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Apr 12, 2011
Ellie
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I loved the idea of only finding love in your dreams and how the main character would be in a boarding school in France. I set high expectations and thankfully they were greatly surpassed. The entire plot is pure genius. I loved all the twists that added depth to the story. One of my favorite parts is the mystery aspect of the book. Lisa Cach's descriptions are flawless. I felt like I was off in France living in an ancient castle with Caitlin. I adored how there was actual history mixed in with
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Sep 03, 2010
Savannah (Books With Bite)
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I LOVED THIS BOOK! It may not seem like a dark book, but it is. Everything in it was so surprising and emotional I want to read it again just for the pleasure of it.
Caitilyn Monahan has vivid dreams. Dreams that are real. And in her dreams she meets him. Haunted by her dreams and thoughts by him Caitilyn takes an opportunity to go to a boarding school in France, but once she gets there, her dreams are worse. All of the sudden, her dreams are so real she can’t tell the different anymo More...
Caitilyn Monahan has vivid dreams. Dreams that are real. And in her dreams she meets him. Haunted by her dreams and thoughts by him Caitilyn takes an opportunity to go to a boarding school in France, but once she gets there, her dreams are worse. All of the sudden, her dreams are so real she can’t tell the different anymo More...
Sep 01, 2010
Leilani
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I want a boy from 400 years ago... As long as he is my my dreams first!
Cach really knows how to write a boy who is 400 years older than you, you can only see him in your dreams, an excellent treat!
Right after reading the Prologue, I was hooked. Like most Prologues, it left me questioning and wanting more! After Chapter 1, the book had all of my attention. I sat at my brothers football practice, reading instead of watching him as I should have. This wasn't the first time Ive seen him More...
Cach really knows how to write a boy who is 400 years older than you, you can only see him in your dreams, an excellent treat!
Right after reading the Prologue, I was hooked. Like most Prologues, it left me questioning and wanting more! After Chapter 1, the book had all of my attention. I sat at my brothers football practice, reading instead of watching him as I should have. This wasn't the first time Ive seen him More...
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Sep 02, 2011
Darla
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I was really excited for Wake Unto Me and was really happy when I finally got to sit down and read it. I'm not a major history person so all of the references of the Knights Templar were kinda lost on me, but totally added to the mystery of the book.
Caitlyn was a great main character who is really not sure of who she is or where she belongs in the beginning, but she knows that there's something more out in the world than being stuck in high school. I really liked her abilities and h More...
Caitlyn was a great main character who is really not sure of who she is or where she belongs in the beginning, but she knows that there's something more out in the world than being stuck in high school. I really liked her abilities and h More...
Feb 13, 2011
Andrea
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Ehh. This was just another "okay" book for me. The book had some mystery/ghostliness to it. But it was also sort of historical. And I don't get into historical books at all. Going back into the past just doesn't do it for me. So I only really enjoyed part of the book. That doesn't mean that I thought that it was a bad book, just that it didn't really spark my interest.
That being said, I didn't enjoy the characters. I liked Caitlyn, Amalia, Naomi, and Raphael. Al More...
That being said, I didn't enjoy the characters. I liked Caitlyn, Amalia, Naomi, and Raphael. Al More...
Aug 29, 2011
Coranne (Short and Sweet)
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I am not sure why, but I really thought this story was about Hades. I have no idea why I thought that or what would have given me that idea.
This is the description from Amazon:
"Caitlyn Monahan knows she belongs somewhere else. It's what her dead mother's note suggested, and it's what her recurring nightmares allude to.
Desperate to flee these terrifying dreams--and her small town--she accepts a spot at a boarding school in France. Only, when she arrives, More...
This is the description from Amazon:
"Caitlyn Monahan knows she belongs somewhere else. It's what her dead mother's note suggested, and it's what her recurring nightmares allude to.
Desperate to flee these terrifying dreams--and her small town--she accepts a spot at a boarding school in France. Only, when she arrives, More...
Aug 05, 2011
Farrah
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This book has one of the most complicated plots I've ever encountered. If the plot was a drawing, it would look like a tangle of lines. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, its just that not everyone will like book as twisted as this.
Caitlyn has never felt like she belonged and when she is offered a scholarship to a French boarding school, she immediately accepts. Once there, she meets Raphael, a man that appears in her dreams.
From then on it starts getting complicated.I can't even sa More...
Caitlyn has never felt like she belonged and when she is offered a scholarship to a French boarding school, she immediately accepts. Once there, she meets Raphael, a man that appears in her dreams.
From then on it starts getting complicated.I can't even sa More...
May 07, 2011
Jenny
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Caitlyn keeps to herself and doesn’t have many friends. She has very pleasant and vivid dreams but there are also the nightmares with screaming ghostly images. She’s tried telling her parents but all they can see is an underlying mental illness so Caitlyn has learned to keep these things to herself. When a opportunity presents itself for Caitlyn to attend boarding school in France she jumps at the chance seeing it as a new start in a new place.
In the new surrounding Caitlyn starts h More...
In the new surrounding Caitlyn starts h More...
Jun 25, 2011
Jessica
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Wake Unto Me ended up being completely different than how I thought it would be and I loved it! Instead of just being about a girl falling in love with a ghost (like the cover insinuates), the story ends up taking twists and turns you would have never suspected in Caitlyn and Raphael's relationship. I loved Caitlyn and how even though she was alone and scared of her dreams, she faced them head on. But you know who I really loved? Raphael! He was so sweet and wasn't afraid to love Caitlyn whole-h
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Jun 12, 2011
Celeste
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Let's try to sum this book up in one word:
Inspiring.
This book totally blew me away. It is without a doubt one of the top books I've read this year. It was brilliant.
Lisa Cach just knows how to write. The language and tone of her writing flows so well. And it was just so unique! I mean I have never heard of a single instance where ghosts have been taken into that context. She has broken many barriers with the idea that one can be dead and yet undead at the same More...
Inspiring.
This book totally blew me away. It is without a doubt one of the top books I've read this year. It was brilliant.
Lisa Cach just knows how to write. The language and tone of her writing flows so well. And it was just so unique! I mean I have never heard of a single instance where ghosts have been taken into that context. She has broken many barriers with the idea that one can be dead and yet undead at the same More...
Nov 15, 2011
Kal-El
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This book was just...weird! I don't know I guess it just rubbed me the wrong way? This is the first book in my life I had to actually force myself to finish.The description is kind of misleading,it's a completely different book than I thought it would be.I started this book at midnight and finished it at around eight in the morning(I took frequent brakes) It just wasn't worth not sleeping over. I don't know if I should blame it on sleep deprivation,or maybe I'm just not as sharp as I like to thi
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Jun 03, 2011
Vicki
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Looking for YA ghost romance with some mystery and maybe a dash of history? This may be your read. I liked the protagonist of this story. She never quite loses her melancholic edge, but does manage to immerse herself in her new environment. I liked the setting and the way the author centered much of the novel around a strong female world. That world took different forms: sometimes religion, but more often friendship or motherhood. The bonds between girls at the school was one of the book's stron
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Aug 12, 2011
Syahira
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actually, I want to read the next book after "Come To Me" but suddenly I was very intrigue with the story until I realized this is a YA novel.
Near 2011, Caitlyn was plagued by nightmarish creatures every night. She kept a dream journal with her to record her dreams but often sketching her nightmares in it. Suddenly she received a scholarship to a private school in France and while she was there she began to have recurring dreams of a 19 year old Gabriel who lived it the 16th More...
Near 2011, Caitlyn was plagued by nightmarish creatures every night. She kept a dream journal with her to record her dreams but often sketching her nightmares in it. Suddenly she received a scholarship to a private school in France and while she was there she began to have recurring dreams of a 19 year old Gabriel who lived it the 16th More...
Aug 09, 2011
Ashlyn Rae
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I was impressed by Lisa Cach’s debut! Wake Unto Me was pretty darn good. The book started off a little slow, and I’m not the one for slow beginnings, but Cach’s writing style told me to keep reading. Her words and descriptions are amazing; they hold onto you until the very last page of the book.
Cach’s writing is also very inspiring. The main character, Caitlyn, seems to fit perfectly into Wake Unto Me. She feels like she doesn’t belong and she’s different from everyone else, including her f More...
Cach’s writing is also very inspiring. The main character, Caitlyn, seems to fit perfectly into Wake Unto Me. She feels like she doesn’t belong and she’s different from everyone else, including her f More...
