Review: Forget You by Jennifer Echols

Book: Forget You
Author: Jennifer Echols
Edition: Paperback
Pages: 293
Pub. Date: July 20th 2010

Rating: A+



Goodreads
"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."


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My Review

The wait is OVER people! We no longer have to stare at our computers, begging Jennifer Echols to release her precious out into the world!
The great part? Forget You is as wonderful as we all imagined.

Jennifer Echols always writes realistic characters and story lines. That is a big reason why I love her books so much. I always think, "Wow, I can see myself being friends with these characters".
Forget You is no exception!
You easily slip into Zoey's life and follow her as she tries to keep her world in balance. But this is YA literature, people. That balancing job is not going to be easy.
First, her dad knocks up a younger woman and divorces her mom. Three months later, her mom has a mental breakdown and downs a bottle of sleeping pills. Then, Zoey has a car crash, but can't remember anything that happened hours before, during, or right after.
Now, her "boyfriend" Brandon is acting weird, Doug is acting like her actually likes her, and there is still a big void in her mind from when the crash happened.

I want to talk about her "boyfriend", Brandon. Every time she brought up that she had a boyfriend, I wanted to shake her and say "Wake up and smell the break up!" Even though they weren't technically together (you will see what I mean). Brandon is, easily put, a man ho.
We all know one or of one, so you have an idea of what I mean. And after the wreck, he pulls away more and more from Zoey, to the extent were he is pretty much non existent until she brings him up again to Doug.

Okay, next boy. Doug. Oh, Doug. How I love thee. You make my heart soar and my knees weak. *happy sigh*
I'll stop swooning on this post now...

The concept of Forget You is great. I don't see how this book hasn't already been published by someone else. But I'm glad it wasn't. It just screams Jennifer Echols wrote me!

The cover is very pretty. I love Zoey and Doug, and the cover fits them perfectly. It's very Jennifer Echols.

Everyone should pick up Forget You and all of Jennifer's other novels!