WHY CAN’T YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOU FORGET . . . AND WHAT YOU REMEMBER? 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. Feeling like her life is 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 (goodreads.com)what a great book of young love ? I have been wanting to read this book for some time.
I found it to be an honest look at the relationship teens have with friends and dealing with problems. I found it interesting that there was alot of sex in the book for such a small book.
Zoey has family problems with her mom being bi-polar and her dad having a relationship with the HR manager at the swim . It was interesting that her father and new wife still had the honeymoon and left Zoey alone for a week even if she had an accident.
Zoey has 2 love interests with Brandon and Doug. They pull at her heart at different ways.
Doug is the bad boy with the heart of gold, but there is still alot talk of condoms , and romance.
I found this to a good example of teens today and what they are going through with high school, friends, relationships, jobs. Life isn't easy and you do keep secrets from your good friends because of your family at times.
Book Review=4
Thanks to Simon and Schuster for the book and this is my Honest review
I've always loved YA fiction.
ReplyDeleteglad you liked it! I thought the Brandon thing was so annoying that I couldn't enjoy the story as much as I wanted to. The fact she kept hanging on to him annoyed me to no end!
ReplyDeleteI finally picked up this book. I can't wait to read it.
ReplyDeleteDid you think the sexual content was well done or gratuitous? I don't mind sex in YA books but sometimes (like cursing) it seems like it's just there for "coolness."
ReplyDeleteI found the sexual content to okay --meaning not that much overall and it was handled well but there was just alot of mentioning of condoms. Glad that they are being safe but with teens being friends with benefits -- it was one of those books I'm glad I read because I have 4 girls . I know that not all kids are like this book--but reading Young adult has changed from my time.
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