Best friends since they could walk.
In love since the age of fourteen.
Complete strangers since this morning.
He'll do anything to remember. She'll do anything to forget.
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This novel is told in the dual perspective of the two main characters, both of whom lost their memory at the same exact time without suffering any kind of injury or illness. They just "woke up" one day at school, not knowing a single detail about themselves, such as where they lived, what their names are, or anything at all relevant to themselves. But they remember all the latest technology and can use it efficiently.
As I type this out, I find myself thinking that the three-star rating I gave this novella is a bit generous. It's a bit... far-fetched. To put it mildly.
Instead of telling a family member or, I don't know, a DOCTOR, about their memory loss, they instead do absolutely nothing, looking to each other to try to fill in the gaps about their lives. As this happens, Silas, the boyfriend, starts falling in love with Charlie all over again, who was cheating on him before the memory loss incident took place. Oh, but he was cheating on her, too, with the school guidance counselor. Two assholes. Now, two assholes with no memories. There is a twist at the end that interested me, but frankly made no sense at all, followed up a cliffhanger ending that answers almost nothing. So why the three stars? Despite its flaws (the central one being the completely unexplained medical mystery memory loss, which is... pretty significant), it was a fast read. I gobbled it up, and when I finished, I wanted more. So what if it is the novella equivalent of a crappy daytime soap opera. I liked it, despite... everything. Somehow.
Publication Date: January 7, 2015
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