Unremembered (Unremembered Trilogy, #1)

by Jessica Brody

[Angie]

Ironically, Unremembered isn’t memorable at all. It’s also an oddly fast read. I breezed through it so quickly that I didn’t even take any notes to help with my review. This makes it doubly hard to write, since like it said, it’s just not that memorable. I never felt that hook. I was just reading along and all of a sudden, I was done. It’s not really a bad book, but it doesn’t stand out at all. However, it does get bonus points for being Science Fiction but not Dystopian.

I do think that the author had a good idea when it came to Unremembered. She just failed in making it exciting. It all starts with a plane crash. Violet is pulled out of the water as the only survivor. She doesn’t remember anything about anything and for some reason she thinks it’s 1609. And oddly, there’s no record of her even being on that plane or of her existence at all. She’s placed with a foster family while the government tries to track down her family. Of course, there’s an amazingly hot teenage boy, Zen, who finds Violet and happens to have all of the answers. They run away together and trouble follows, including car chases and gun fights.

I can’t really say more about the plot without giving anything away, but I will say that it didn’t turn out how I was expecting at all. There are some interesting twists. Well, twists that should have been interesting, but were presented in a dull manner. There’s one giant info-dump at the end that explains almost everything. I also wasn’t into the romance. Violet and Zen know each other from before her memory loss so there’s no real relationship development. It’s all seen as flashbacks. Then in the story’s present, we’re just told that they’re in love, even though Violet has no clue who he is, but whatever.

Unremembered has a good premise, but it was just presented badly. There’s no standout moment that drew me in and made me want to keep reading. It was just an easy, light, mindless read that you should get through in no time. The plot is kind of cliche with the whole evil corporation doing naughty science and trying to murder teenagers who know too much. I have no clue what the sequels could possibly be about, since the ending doesn’t leave us with any sort of direction. Maybe I’ll read the next one, maybe I won’t. I’ll probably forget all about it by then.

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