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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2013
On an ordinary day in 2027, sixteen-year-old Australian Tegan Oglietti is on her way to attend a climate change protest when she's shot and killed by a sniper. She wakes up to find that she's been cryogenically frozen for a century, and everyone she knows is long dead. Tegan is subject to intense military supervision and media scrutiny (the press calls her the "Living Dead Girl," and various political and religious groups all have opinions about her existence). But she...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Older Fiction
Tegan wakes up to find that she's been cryogenically frozen for a century, and everyone she knows is long dead. But she bra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on April 1, 2013
Karen Healey is among today’s most talented YA speculative-fiction writers. Like Healey’s previous novels, When We Wake is highly imaginative and features her signature elements, including a strong female protagonist, a winning cast of diverse characters, and an intriguing secret that has world-changing potential. Tegan is resurrected in a transformed world in which she is famous for being the “Living Dead Girl”—the first person to be revived from cryo-stas...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
