Monday, December 31, 2018

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Book 32 of my 2018 Reading Challenge 

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Kevin

Summary (via Goodreads)
If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief." She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's fiancée. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back.
But Naomi picked heads.
After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances.


My Opinion
The writing was very good and I would've eaten up this storyline when I was younger but this isn't a teen book that translated to an adult audience for me.  It was melodramatic, added unnecessary trouble by keeping things secret that didn't need to be, and I felt too old to fall for the romance of it.  

So an average 3 stars from me since I wasn't the target audience but would've enjoyed it more if I was.

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