The Forgotten Girl

by Jessica Sorensen

[Angie]

I wasn't sure what to expect going into The Forgotten Girl. Maddie has been suffering from amnesia for the past six years, and now she's randomly blacking out. When she wakes up, she's covered in blood, can't remember what she was doing previously, and someone turns up dead. She has no idea if she's the murderer or not, but she suspects it might be her otherself: Lily. But Maddie also has no clue who Lily is. Is she a real person that she's mimicking, or is she just someone she made up?

The Forgotten Girl had me hooked from the beginning. I read it all in one sitting! I just had to know what the heck was going on, since it gets stranger and darker as it moves forward. The narrative also alternates between Maddie and Lily, although Maddie is usually "in control." Lily likes pain, and torment, and hurting people. She thinks Maddie is weak, and takes over when she thinks something needs to get done. Maddie's mother keeps telling her that she was such a good girl, but Maddie can't believe that when she has this dark side to her.

Then there's the murders. Three people wind up dead, and Maddie gets more and more freaked out that she may have done it. And the only way to figure it out, is to unlock her lost memories, which she suspects Lily is blocking for some reason. Maddie tries to ask her mother about the little details she can remember, but she refuses to say anything. Obviously, something really bad happened. And it did! I did figure out who Lily was early on, but I could never imagine what had happened to them to cause all this.

The ending of The Forgotten Girl was a bit jumbled to me. Once the truth started coming out, it just kept coming, and coming, and at times it was hard to tell what Maddie was really seeing and what she was hallucinating. It got confusing, but I really loved that epilogue. I was really surprised by that twist!

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