Same with the secondary characters she comes to meet and call friends. She was a great protagonist for this story and I found her very likeable. I liked how this was done, she was on the defensive, not believing anybody and fighting to get her way.

That would be a shocker on pretty much anybody.

Tegan is in love and it’s all pretty and roses, then she abruptly wakes up… 100 years from now. My problems mostly lay with the way the book came off as a big environmental/social speech. A fascinating premise indeed! Who’s not intrigued by the future? Curious about the state of our planet, the technology, even the fashion? I was really excited to get into this book and for the most part it I really enjoyed it. What happens after death? Well for Tegan, it’s another life. But the future isn’t all she hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light, Tegan must make a choice: Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for a better future?Īward-winning author Karen Healey has created a haunting, cautionary tale of an inspiring protagonist living in a not-so-distant future that could easily be our own. Tegan is the first government guinea pig to be cryonically frozen and successfully revived, which makes her an instant celebrity-even though all she wants to do is try to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027-she’s happiest when playing the guitar, she’s falling in love for the first time, and she’s joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.īut on what should have been the best day of Tegan’s life, she dies-and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened. My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy.

When we wake by karen healey