and i don't know anything about psychology, child or otherwise, so i don't know the terminology, but she just completely shuts down, emotionally, into a not-quite-stockholm syndrome - she doesn't align herself with him for anything but self-preservation, but she has just given up fighting and does what he wants, because he has made threats about hurting her family etc.
the basic premise - although i hate doing plot summaries - is that "alice" (the first-person narrator)is kidnapped when she is ten and physically and sexually abused for 5 years, but when she starts to develop physically beyond her captor's personal preference, he enlists her help in selecting her own replacement. it came up in my collection development class when we were talking about challenged books (that doesn't mean that they are handicapped, but that they have been rarrred at by angry parents and other scared concerned types), but when i heard what it was about - i pretty much had to read it to see how an author handled this situation, because it seemed rough stuff for teen fiction.
It was also reviewed in the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.I probably would have liked this book more if i were a teenager or a pedophile. Booklist calls As I Wake a combination between a dystopian thriller and a romance. Publishers Weekly stated that the book will have readers"on the edge of their seats." Kirkus Reviews, however, states that the book is flawed, but it will keep the reader turning pages. When the book first came out it received a wide range of reviews. She also claims to have had an "obsession" with modal realism, 1980s East Germany, and the roles played by Stasi. Elizabeth Scott also claims to have wanted to read this type of book when she was younger but wasn't able to. The book was actually written between 20, but was not sold until 2010. Ava watches the boy in her dreams, but she can't shake the feeling that it's not a dream. Even though her handwriting looks the same, and she looks the same, she can't shake the feeling that she is not Ava Hanson. She learns that she is seventeen, is a junior at Lakewood Day, and lives with her mother because her father died when she was younger. She is diagnosed with Amnesia and is released from the hospital. In the hospital, she dreams of 56-412, a boy. She goes to the hospital and is diagnosed with amnesia, when she comes home she is welcomed by her mother, her friends, and a crush finally showing interest.Įlizabeth Scott is an American author who has written many books including Living Dead Girl.Īva Hanson wakes up in an ambulance and can't remember anything. As I Wake is a young adult novel by Elizabeth Scott about Ava, a girl, who wakes up and finds herself in an unfamiliar place.
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