Series and Book #: none
Pages: 292
Summary:
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.
Just like Jennifer's first book Going Too Far, Forget You was a wonderful teen romance. Doug and Zoey were such a great pairing even if it was bittersweet.
Zoey's dad was such a jerk! How dare he make her feel terrible about herself? It was frustrating to see Zoey fall into this trap with her father over and over again. Him yelling at her about keeping her mother's attempted suicide a secret and then his complaining that she had gotten into a car accident and lost her memory just to ruin his vacation? Right, because anyone in their right mind would do something that horrible to sabotage a Hawaiian getaway for the heck of it. WTF? Jennifer making the connection Doug had called her a spoiled brat, and then Zoey mentioning it to Doug later on, was great. Their relationship was already tempestuous. Zoey didn't remember the night her and Doug hooked up even though he did. Doug already had this developed relationship with Zoey. Zoey tried so hard to deny that anything happened while at the same time falling in love with Doug...it was a great way to write a love story.
Zoey should have known her relationship with Brandon wasn't really a relationship at all. She spent all summer with him, watching him bounce from one girl to the other. I don't understand why she would think she was any different. I hated how everything was sex with Zoey, too. She thought that if she had sex with Brandon it would restore whatever broken relationship they had in the first place. Then she wanted to redo the night with Doug. She couldn't do that without the love making?
Another excellent summer romance, this one with some drama! The characters were all well-developed. I loved loved loved Zoey and Doug together!
The Cover: I like that Zoey looks a little confused, possibly even tormented by her attraction for Doug while she's "with" Brandon whereas Doug seems happy.
