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”He thought he’d outlived war. Ultimately, war outlived everyone.”
I was sucked into The Wake Up from page one. In a dark, bleak world where political conflict is building by the day and the average person you pass on the street is unable to sense their angel or demon sides, Lexi has been blessed/cursed with the ability of a Seer. Her family has cautioned her to hide her abilities since the time she was a child. When it’s discovered reflective surfaces (mirrors, glass) magnify and help to identif ...more
I was sucked into The Wake Up from page one. In a dark, bleak world where political conflict is building by the day and the average person you pass on the street is unable to sense their angel or demon sides, Lexi has been blessed/cursed with the ability of a Seer. Her family has cautioned her to hide her abilities since the time she was a child. When it’s discovered reflective surfaces (mirrors, glass) magnify and help to identif ...more
The Wake Up by Angela Panayotopulos is familiar in the sense that it’s a paranormal dystopian with a bleak view of the future. But the author gives this tale her own new and refreshing take that makes for a whirlwind of an interesting story.
Lexi is a glass makers daughter with the ability to see people for what they truly are inside mirrors. In this world there is a ban on reflective objects and people try to hide from their true natures.
The prose is beautiful and poetic, sometimes so deep tha ...more
Lexi is a glass makers daughter with the ability to see people for what they truly are inside mirrors. In this world there is a ban on reflective objects and people try to hide from their true natures.
The prose is beautiful and poetic, sometimes so deep tha ...more
Sometimes we devour a book. Sometimes they devour us. And sometimes, once it spits us back out, we see the world through new eyes.
The Wake Up is precisely that: a call to arms, to action. A challenge to accept the truth, that we are demon and angel both. From the very first page, it’s obvious—this book wasn’t written, it was wrought. Born into the world kicking and screaming, with attitude to burn. At times, like any ride worth taking, it almost flies off the rails, so driven and raw it outstrip ...more
The Wake Up is precisely that: a call to arms, to action. A challenge to accept the truth, that we are demon and angel both. From the very first page, it’s obvious—this book wasn’t written, it was wrought. Born into the world kicking and screaming, with attitude to burn. At times, like any ride worth taking, it almost flies off the rails, so driven and raw it outstrip ...more
The Wake Up by Angela Panayotopulos is a dystopian fantasy novel set in a turbulent period in an unravelling and conflicted United States. Lexi, the daughter of a family of glass-blowers, possesses the rare ability to ‘See’ people for who they truly are, namely demons or angels (whether they know it or not). Lexi herself is part-demon, and what she sees happening all around her is an assault against her kind. This battle between good and evil is the main conflict of this book, and the events tha
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The Wake Up is a dystopian urban fantasy and sometimes a romance. I say romance only because the story spends a significant amount of time on Lexi's love relationships. The protagonist Lexi is a young woman in a very messed up world. Her home life has also become a mess. The premise is that some people are able to see others in the reflection of a mirror for who they are at that moment. People either have horns or wings. Some people can't handle the knowledge.
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The Wake Up is the story of today's world with a dystopian bent. Some people can see things that others cannot. To those able to see it, internal thoughts and personality types are reflected in mirrors. Those who don't have the ability have no clue that this ability exists. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see hidden agendas, kindness or evil within? Maybe, maybe not!
The story is dark, but Lexi, the main character is likable. She has the ability to see evil, and of course, the most likely place ...more
The story is dark, but Lexi, the main character is likable. She has the ability to see evil, and of course, the most likely place ...more
Dec 18, 2018
Angela Panayotopulos
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it was amazing
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THE WAKE UP, the first book in "The Seers" series by Angela Panayotopulos, centers on Lexi, a young Greek-American woman from Virginia who struggles with her ability to see others' demonic or angelic true natures in their reflections. But she's not the only one. Writing in multiple third person limited points of view was an excellent choice by the author, effectively conveying how the ability is a gift to some, but a curse to others. While the premise of a government ban on man-made reflective s
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The Wake Up is the story of today's world with a dystopian bent. Some people can see things that others cannot. To those able to see it, internal thoughts and personality types are reflected in mirrors. Those who don't have the ability have no clue that this ability exists. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to see hidden agendas, kindness or evil within? Maybe, maybe not!
The story is dark, but Lexi, the main character is likable. She has the ability to see evil, and of course, the most likely place ...more
The story is dark, but Lexi, the main character is likable. She has the ability to see evil, and of course, the most likely place ...more
... Mirror mirror on the wall, who's a demon after all? ...
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Jan 28, 2024
Ann Birdgenaw
marked it as to-read
