Saturday, January 8, 2011

Persnickety Snark: Mini Review - Forget You Jennifer Echols

Mini Review - Forget You / Jennifer Echols
WHY CAN`T YOU Choose WHAT YOU FORGET . . . AND WHAT YOU Think? There`s a lot Zoey would wish to forget. Like how her mother has knocked up his twenty-four- year old girlfriend. Like Zoey`s fear that the whole town will get out about her mom`s nervous breakdown. Like darkly handsome bad boy Doug taunting her at school.

Feeling like her spirit is near to get a complete mess, Zoey fights back the sole way she knows how, using her famous attention to point to make sure she`s the perfect daughter, the perfect student, and the perfect girlfriend to ultra-popular football player Brandon. But then Zoey is in a car crash, and the following day there`s one thing she can`t remember at all-the entire night before. Did she go parking with Brandon, like she plotted? And if so, why does it look like Brandon is avoiding her? And why is Doug-of all people- suddenly acting as if something significant happened between the two of them? Zoey dimly remembers Doug pulling her from the wreck, but he keeps referring to what happened that night as if it was more, and it terrifies Zoey to include how often is a white to her. Controlled, meticulous Zoey is rapidly losing her bag on the all-important details of her life-a spirit that seems strangely empty of Brandon, and strangely full of Doug.Review - I am a vast fan of Echols work there is a zap to her talks and a passion to her story lines that really get a reader's attention. Forget You revolves round the memory loss of the friend and as such the reader feels untethered in the novel. So often of the game is dependent on Zoey not remembering that the emotional connection is lessened.Zoey holds firm to what she thinks she knows for sure while understandable, also alienates her from the reader. However, there is a lot to love about this fresh from the charged interchanges between the two leads, portrayal of depression and Echol's trademark banter. Recommendation - A fun read with some bumps in the road. Published: July 20, 2010 Format: ARC, 293 pages Publisher: MTV Source: publisher Origin: USA

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