Forget You, by Jennifer Echols

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Forget You

by Jennifer Echols

Forget You is a captivating modern-day romance starring Zoey Commander (to be honest, this might not be her last name, it might just be people at the beach party poking fun at her, but I can't seem to find her real last name!). Zoey has a life-changing year, during which her father cheats on her mother with a twenty-four-year-old woman, impregnates her, and then her parents divorce. But it gets worse! Three months later, Zoey's mother attempts suicide, and it is Zoey who finds her and calls 9-1-1! While she is at the hospital, Doug shows up, who has hated Zoey since 9^th grade, when he asked her to homecoming, but then went to juvie, missed it, and Zoey went with someone else. Zoey is now forced to live with her insensitive dad, who, after refusing to send Zoey to a therapist/shrink to talk about the experience of her mother, goes away to Hawaii to marry his twenty-four-year-old fiance, leaving cameras around the house which he could watch via the internet to make sure Zoey was behaving. Zoey then, as a way to make herself feel better, loses her virginity to one of her friends, Brandon, who has a reputation for easiness. A couple nights later, Zoey gets in a wreck, and when she wakes up, all she can remember of that night is Doug pulling her out of the wrecked car! What happened that night, at the party she supposedly went to? Where are her diamond earrings? Why is Doug suddenly so nice to her, and why is he trying to kiss her? But, most of all, why does she want to kiss him back? This story is full of twist and turns, and you won't (willingly) put it down until the end (unless someone takes it from you, which happened to me twice!)

Overall, wow! This book was great! I bought it on my nook to read on a cruise I went on this summer, expecting a fluffy, predictable romance story, and it surprised me - I couldn't put it down! The characters are fantastic – I could feel how Zoey felt, as she worried about her mom's condition, and whether it was hereditary, and I totally fell in love with Doug! All the character's relationships felt very real, not at all forced or boring. Plus, for those people with nooks, even though it wasn't that expensive, there are very few misspellings or weird words on the electronic version. I highly recommend this book, for any of you who need a good summer read!