Waiting on Wednesday: When We Wake by Karen Healey

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine

Title: When We Wake by Karen Healey

Published by: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Release date: March 5th, 2013

My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy.

Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027—she’s happiest when playing the guitar, she’s falling in love for the first time, and she’s joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.
But on what should have been the best day of Tegan’s life, she dies—and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened.
Tegan is the first government guinea pig to be cryonically frozen and successfully revived, which makes her an instant celebrity—even though all she wants to do is try to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. But the future isn’t all she hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light, Tegan must make a choice: Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for a better future?
Award-winning author Karen Healey has created a haunting, cautionary tale of an inspiring protagonist living in a not-so-distant future that could easily be our own.

Why I want to read it: Doesn't this sound awesome?  I mean, creepy, but it's still good.  I'm curious to know what the world will be like 100 years from now. I would be mad it someone froze me like that too! 

What are you waiting for this week?