Forgotten by Cat Patrick

Description:

Each night at precisely 4:33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. London is used to relying on reminder notes and a trusted friend to get through the day, but things get complicated when a new boy at school enters the picture. Luke Henry is not someone you'd easily forget, yet try as she might, London can't find him in her memories of things to come.

When London starts experiencing disturbing flashbacks, or flash-forwards, as the case may be, she realizes it's time to learn about the past she keeps forgetting—before it destroys her future (Goodreads).

My Thoughts:

This is another of my library finds; when I saw that they had this book at the library I had to have it right away. I have heard and read so many good reviews about it, I just got sucked into the hype.

Did I like this book? Yes. Did I think it was so good that it deserved all the hype and five star reviews out there? No. Please do not get me wrong it was a good read and it was entertaining, but I was not sitting on the edge of a seat wondering what’s going to happen next. Yes there was some mystery to London’s memory loss and what’s her mother lying to her about.

I really liked the idea of memory reset, remembering the future and not the past. It’s a neat idea, but I wish that the author took more time and explained how her memory works. For a such big subject to tackle on the book was to short. London is able to function effectively in school and home through her notes that she reads each morning to recap. I can imagine that is a lot of notes! I personally think that London’s life was bit easy despite her memory loss (keep in mind that London know what happens in the future). You would think that her life would be more difficult but that hardship is never reflected in the story, other than that most of her peers think her strange.

Romance in the book was cute; I liked London and Luke together. I liked the fact that there was no head games going on between the two, like you see in so many other YA books. Mystery part of the book was alright, but it did not keep me at the edge of the seat. I was bit surprised to discover how and when London lost her memory. I knew that there was something that caused it but I did not know what. Writing was alright, nothing to complex, very easy and fast read. You can tell that this is a first time author but there is a lot of promise there. I just hope that the author evolves with her writing style in the future books. As much as I liked this book, it was to simple and too easy.

 

Overall this was an entertaining and fast read. It had a lot of good things going for It. I would like to see how this author evolves with her future books. Sometimes I find that a lot of YA authors do not evolve as authors but rather they are very static in their writing style. Always the same but never different. Anyways, I am not going to give this book five or four stars because I really do not think that it was that good. I would not give it more than three stars.

I give this book 3/5 STARS – Happy Reading!!!