The Kari AnnAlysis

At 4:33 every single morning, 16-year-old London Lane loses her memory. She lives her life through notes, years and years of  notes she has left herself. They serve as reminders including what she wore to school, what she and her best friend did, what she needs to take to school the next day. London doesn’t know what caused her to lose her memory, but she does remember one thing, the future. London sees her future memories, which also helps her get by on a day-to-day basis. But one thing she doesn’t see is the new boy in school who will change her life forever and maybe  put her past and future together and help figure out the disturbing memory she keeps seeing over and over.

I listened to this as an audio book on my way to and from work one week. I immediately liked London. How could you not? She forgets everything, every single day, but she isn’t bitter. She gets up, reads her notes and goes to schools. She’s admirable if anything.

There were times when I read this book that I questioned the memory issues. Yes, I know this is a fiction book and with fiction, you can good and well do whatever you want. But I get so caught up in books and forget they are fiction and I want realistic answers. Throughout the book though, pieces of London’s memory issue are explained and I was able to cope with my questions and enjoy the book.

Now with that said, what a creative story. I read that Cat Patrick has a memory issue of her own. On her blog, she says she got the idea for Forgotten when she lost  train of thought mid-activity and started thinking about how it would be live remembering forward instead of in the past. I’m still waiting on an idea like this just to hit me mid-activity

I give Forgotten 4 bookmarks.

ISBN: 978-0316094610
Release Date: June 2011
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Kari got this book in audio book form at the Cabell County Library