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1 " Tell me you didn’t really watch Nausicaa.”Miho tried to keep a serious face, which must have been difficult enough in her flannel Hello Kitty pajamas. But the girl was a terrible liar. She smirked.“No. Kiki just ended. So much for our Miyazaki marathon.”“We got through two movies,” Sakura said. “Tonight, that’s a marathon.”They’d wanted to watch movies tonight, just to clear their minds, and had agreed on nothing violent. All three of them loved the films of Miyazaki, who had become perhaps the most successful director in Japan while making only animated films. Kara had vetoed Howl’s Moving Castle because she’d seen it too recently, and they had all seen My Neighbor Totoro far too many times, so they had started with Spirited Away. "
― , Dreams of the Dead (The Waking, #1)
2 " At the edges of her unconscious mind, something crept on cat feet, nightmares lying in wait, preparing for the moment when she would begin to dream. "
3 " But fear skitters down her spine and her body flinches backward.(…)The room feels fluid… liquid… and Kara wades through it, the edges of her perception melting as she climbs onto the bed.(…)Kara opens her mouth to scream –Only nothing comes out, and she knows why. She’s been here before. Doesn’t even have to reach up to feel the smooth skin covering the place her mouth ought to be. She has no mouth, no face, no scream. No voice. "
4 " Her whole body tenses, heaves, tries to scream, and her eyes burn with tears of frustration and terror.In the moonlit shadows of her bedroom, she hears a cat begin to purr.Kara runs, shaking, out into the short corridor.The cats are black and white, ginger and gray, fat and starved. They sit on tables, on chairs, on tatami mats. One sits so still beside a lamp that it looks carved from wood. She wants her father, wants to go into his room and wake him, but three of them sit, barring his door.As one, they follow her with their eyes as Kara weaves through the living room.As one, they hiss.As one, they begin to follow, stalking her. "
5 " Thomas Randall and Christopher Golden not only are inventive writers but write in a sense to grab your attention cover to cover! I absolutely advise you to read,"The Waking" series. You'll love it if you are into the movie,"The- Grudge". I'm currently working on reading the second book of the trilogy. "
