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 really liked the idea of this story, with Zoey getting amnesia and everything, but it was hard for me to enjoy sometimes because Zoey annoyed me so much.
Zoey was definitely my only problem with this book. I couldn't figure out why she thought her and this guy, Brandon, were together, when he never even bothers to talk to her. She knows Brandon's ways with girls, because he would always ask her for advice, so I couldn't understand why she would think she was any different.
I do realize that there were reasons why she would act the way she did, but it got to the point where she should have figured it out by then. But I did enjoy everything else. I really liked Doug, which probably help me not like Zoey even more with the way she treated him. There were moments when I couldn't put the book down. But I really can't stand when a character is written as stupid just to keep the story going, which is what happened here.
