Holy...! It freaked me out.
Around 70% I started feeling like the world is listing sideways and my mind is straining to break its constrains and flee.

Reminds me a little of [b:Cracked Up to Be|3521484|Cracked Up to Be|Courtney Summers|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1400197223s/3521484.jpg|3563198].
I like this one more though.

The resolution... Well. I'd like the ending to be more.
There are a lot of things left unsaid and the whole family Situation is left unexplored. I know the story was focusing on Kiri, but still.

Overall, give it a try. ( )

Kiri’s parents are away on a cruise and have left her on her own. I think she’s 17? She is part of a musical duo with her best friend, Lukas, and they have Battle of the Bands coming up. Kiri is also a very good piano player and has a test(? competition?) coming up. When she receives a strange phone call about her (long-dead) sister, she learns something (big) her parents never told her about her sister’s death. This starts a series of events that has Kiri spiralling out of control.

I didn’t like Kiri, nor many of the choices she made. The book became kind of chaotic as we moved more and more toward the end. I did like the Vancouver setting – it’s always fun recognizing places. I also thought the idea of Kiri never learning what she does about her sister’s death until the start of this book (5 years later) is pretty unrealistic. I can’t imagine she wouldn’t have heard it somewhere, even if not from her parents or brother. The book still (at least more at the start and throughout the first half or so) interested me enough to consider it “ok”. ( )

This book is crazy. It's a crazy book about crazy people and you will feel crazy reading it.

I Loved it.

Have you ever been on a swing-set or merry-go-round or a roller coaster and when you went to bed you couldn't stop spinning? That's what this book felt like.

The pacing was PERFECT. There was never a moment where I was bored and when I had to stop to eat or pee or watch Big Bang Theory it was really hard to pull myself away.

THE WRITING. Oh my god, the WRITING. Suffice to say it was lovely, it was beautiful and it was crazy. The writing made this book feel like this book.

And the characters. There were all exactly as they should be, crazy and insecure and imperfect because that's how people are and that was perfect. The relationships were tangled and it didn't make sense and that was perfect because that's how life is.

And the title. The title fit this book perfectly. Sometimes, in a book the wrods in the title are used. I'm pretty good at catching it when that happens, and it didn't happen in this book but the title Wild Awake--I can't imagine a better title for this book. The characters were Wild Awake and I was Wild Awake while I was reading it.

I think this book is crazy, beautiful, perfect. ( )

Wild Awake is a hard book for me to review. There is no question that the writing itself is superb. The voice throughout the novel is quirky and enjoyable to read. I found myself constantly marking down phrases I liked and moments I thought were funny. The author is a great writer, however, there didn't seem to be much of an actual story.

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Loved the main character's frenetic voice and the warts and all Vancouver setting.