Book Review and Giveaway: Forget You by Jennifer Echols

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Ok, I know this is gonna seem like a first and a departure for this site, and IT IS! Yup, our first foray into YA- Young Adult fiction! The synopsis of this booked sounded so great, I didn't want to pass it up, so read on!

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Synopsis: There’s a lot Zoey would like to forget. Like how her father has knocked up his twenty-four-year old girlfriend. Like Zoey’s fear that the whole town will find out about her mom’s nervous breakdown. Like darkly handsome bad boy Doug taunting her at school. With her life about to become a complete mess, Zoey fights back the only way she knows how, using her famous attention to detail 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 next day there’s one thing she can’t remember at all—the entire night before. Did she go parking with Brandon, like she planned? And if so, why does it seem 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 admit how much is a blank to her. Controlled, meticulous Zoey is quickly losing her grip on the all-important details of her life—a life that seems strangely empty of Brandon, and strangely full of Doug.


About the Author: Jennifer Echols is a former newspaper editor, college writing teacher, and PhD candidate in English. She has written for numerous literary and professional publications, and she won the Whatley Award for the year's best essay in the Journal of Popular Culture. Raised in a small town in Alabama, Jennifer currently lives with her husband and son in Birmingham, where she works as a freelance editor for scientific publications. Check out her website for more info and link to her blog!

Review: Wow, this book was SO totally not what I expected! Obviously I have NOT read YA, or I woulda had a clue. First let me say the writing is fantastic and Ms Echols can lead you along the path of the story exceptionally well, the characters are well rounded and she threw in some surprises that made the book more than one would have thought. It was the the SHOCK of how MUCH sex was part of the storyline.

When you think high schoolers, it's not what comes to mind. College kids, oh yeah! As a parent, I found myself flinching but then thinking ok, consider it educational reading into mind of teens, as obviously they read this type of YA, as the book has already gotten a following!  I found myself just having to think of the kids in hte story as college kids so that I would be constantly asking 'mother' questions in my head! Once I got around that, I loved the story!

The characters in the book are juniors and seniors in high school, so obviously that's the aim of the audience. I'm not sure I;d want my HS kid reading it, especially if they AREN'T that 'wordly', so to speak. College freshman? Probably a better fit as far as I'm concerned.  But I do recommend the book, and hope the author branches out into adult fiction later, as she has real talent and I'd love to see her take on Chick Lit next!

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Disclosure / Disclaimer:  I was offered this book, free of charge,from Gallery Books, for review on this blog. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to review the book.

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