SuitabookWhen we wake
Karen Healey
- Reading
- Read a little together at first, then check whether the future society’s secrets or the references to death and violence prompt questions; let the reader set the pace.
- Themes
- Resistance and social change: Tegan has protested wrongs with friends and later faces a choice between keeping quiet and fighting for a better future. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Cryogenic revival and unfamiliar society: After dying, Tegan wakes a century later as the first government guinea pig to be successfully revived; she uncovers secrets about her new world. The speculative premise raises questions about the circumstances of Tegan’s revival and what she learns, but the treatment of those questions is unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes Tegan’s death and revival, as well as mild violence and mild profanity; the nature and detail of these elements are not specified.