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| Book #89 of 2010 |
| Title: Forget You |
| Author: Jennifer Echols |
| Publisher: MTV Books |
| Pub Date:June 20, 2010 |
| Grade: B |
| Comments: After her mother attempts suicide, Zoey sleeps with her friend Brandon. At the next beach party, there is a very different ending: Zoey ends up in a car accident. She is pulled from the car by Doug Fox, a guy from school she has a difficult history with, who happens to be the only person who knows about her mother. Zoey doesn’t remember anything that happened the night of the accident, but she’s confused why Doug (who formerly hated her) keeps showing up and flirting with her when she is supposed to be with Brandon. As Zoey finds out more about what happened that night, she’s not sure who she can trust.
This book has been reviewed very positively everywhere, but it didn’t quite work for me. The elements that made Echols’ Going Too Far so successful such as characters with fantastic, desperate chemistry and smart writing, were present; however, I could not suspend my disbelief that Zoey really believed she was in a relationship with Brandon. It’s one thing that she had memory loss, but quite another that she missed all of the glaringly obvious evidence in the present that Brandon didn’t really having feelings for her and was in fact dating someone else. Although this sets up the will-they, wont-they relationship with Doug, it just seems like such an obvious contrivance to keep them apart. The book might have been stronger if it was less about Zoey’s romantic issues and more about her relationship with her parents, which she could have dealt with especially with Doug by her side. This book is hot and intense, but only if you can pretend Zoey’s issues aren’t all in her head. |
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