Forget you by Jennifer Echols is the third book that I have read by this author, and by now I definitely have a ranking of which ones I prefer:
Zoey's world is turned upside down when her self-absorbed father gets her twenty-four year-old employee pregnant and her mother attempts suicide, placing her in a mental institution. Having to keep up appearances for her parents' reputations, she pretends everything is fine. Again, her world is shaken up when she wakes up after she's been involved in a car crash with Doug, previously on bad terms, being too intimate with her. She already has her boyfriend Brandon!
What brought this book down are two things: Zoey's annoying trait of showing weakness and the lack of interesting plot when compared to Echols' previous works.
Zoey doesn't remember everything that happened during and shortly after the accident. In addition to the strange string of events (i.e. Doug being all kind and intimate with her). So what does she do to try to figure out what happen? She lies to everyone about not remembering, making excuses and pretending that she remembers, and goes to extents that make her look a little crazy. Her strong reluctance to show weakness and actually ask someone directly involved is beyond annoying! I just wanted to scream at her and tell her to just go ask Doug what happened and that would be it! Just go straight to the source to eliminate all of this insanity! However, if she did do that, about 90% of the book would of been done away with.
Another annoying flaw of Zoey is her misconceptions about other people. Plainly a bad judgement of character. This is most prominent in her perception of her relationship with her "boyfriend" Brandon. It's simply infuriating. She just refuses to acknowledge the reality of their relationship and goes further by lying to herself about it and to others.
Echols' other books are very good, especially Going Too Far, yet this is definitely not up to par. It lacks excitement and originality that they had. It just felt like another mediocre book, really. I expected a lot more from Jennifer Echols, contributing to my negative review because of my disappointment. All I can really say is that she tried. Some other books kind of similar to this is: My Life Next Door (review here) and Anna and the French Kiss (review here).
- Going Too Far
- Such a Rush
- Forget You
Zoey's world is turned upside down when her self-absorbed father gets her twenty-four year-old employee pregnant and her mother attempts suicide, placing her in a mental institution. Having to keep up appearances for her parents' reputations, she pretends everything is fine. Again, her world is shaken up when she wakes up after she's been involved in a car crash with Doug, previously on bad terms, being too intimate with her. She already has her boyfriend Brandon!
What brought this book down are two things: Zoey's annoying trait of showing weakness and the lack of interesting plot when compared to Echols' previous works.
Zoey doesn't remember everything that happened during and shortly after the accident. In addition to the strange string of events (i.e. Doug being all kind and intimate with her). So what does she do to try to figure out what happen? She lies to everyone about not remembering, making excuses and pretending that she remembers, and goes to extents that make her look a little crazy. Her strong reluctance to show weakness and actually ask someone directly involved is beyond annoying! I just wanted to scream at her and tell her to just go ask Doug what happened and that would be it! Just go straight to the source to eliminate all of this insanity! However, if she did do that, about 90% of the book would of been done away with.
Another annoying flaw of Zoey is her misconceptions about other people. Plainly a bad judgement of character. This is most prominent in her perception of her relationship with her "boyfriend" Brandon. It's simply infuriating. She just refuses to acknowledge the reality of their relationship and goes further by lying to herself about it and to others.
Echols' other books are very good, especially Going Too Far, yet this is definitely not up to par. It lacks excitement and originality that they had. It just felt like another mediocre book, really. I expected a lot more from Jennifer Echols, contributing to my negative review because of my disappointment. All I can really say is that she tried. Some other books kind of similar to this is: My Life Next Door (review here) and Anna and the French Kiss (review here).
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