Review: Wide Awake by Shelly Crane

4 Star Review by Annie

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When Emma Walker wakes up in the hospital with no knowledge of how she got there, she learns that she's been in a coma for six months. Strangers show up and claim to be her parents, but she can't remember them. She can't remember anyone. Not her friends, not even her boyfriend. Even though she can't remember, everyone wants her to just pick up where she left off, but what she learns about the 'old her' makes her start to wish she'd never woken up. Her boyfriend breaks up with the new girl he's dating to be with her, her parents want her to start planning for college, her friends want their leader back, and her physical therapist with the hazel eyes keeps his distance to save his position at the hospital.

Will she ever feel like she recognizes the girl in the mirror? When Emma Walker wakes up in the hospital with no knowledge of how she got there, she learns that she's been in a coma for six months. Strangers show up and claim to be her parents, but she can't remember them. She can't remember anyone. Not her friends, not even her boyfriend. Even though she can't remember, everyone wants her to just pick up where she left off, but what she learns about the 'old her' makes her start to wish she'd never woken up. Her boyfriend breaks up with the new girl he's dating to be with her, her parents want her to start planning for college, her friends want their leader back, and her physical therapist with the hazel eyes keeps his distance to save his position at the hospital. Will she ever feel like she recognizes the girl in the mirror?


“The things we should focus on in any life shouldn’t be what we’ve lost, but what we’ve gained” – Shelly Crane, Wide Awake


No one knows you better than you know yourself! Well that is not the case in this book. Emma Walker was involved in a hit and run accident that lands her in a coma. When she finally wakes up six months later she realizes that she has no idea who anyone is, including herself. She struggles to get her life back in order, while dealing with the pressure of learning who she used to be and who she wants to be now.


Before the accident Emma was the queen bee of her school. She was captain of the cheerleading squad who hung out with all the popular kids and even dated a football player, Andy. After the accident nothing seemed right she hated cheerleading, her friends were all stuck up and she didn’t even have feelings for Andy.


Emma even began falling for her hot physical therapist, Mason. Mason has his own secrets and issues, but what fun would that be if I told you what they were? This book is a fantastic read, so get to it and start reading. This book gets 4 stars.