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.
I don't have very much to say about Forget You. It was an ok story, but, ironically, pretty forgettable. Not as gripping as I hoped, and I wasn't too impressed with how it all turned out. Also, Zoey so easily fooled herself, I had real trouble liking her. She convinced herself there was a whole lot more going on than there really was, despite evidence to the contrary, and would act according to her delusion. She was a little ridiculous. And I really don't see why Doug kept putting up with it. Zoey didn't remember what happened, but he believed she did, and with the way she was acting... ugh. Not much of a fan of this one, sadly.
Thank you to Simon and Schuster Children's Books for the review copy.
