In fact, I'm I’ve only finished the book minutes ago and I'm feeling let-down, irritated and puzzled. The concept of a teenage girl who loses her memory was so intriguing I guess I was let down by the execution.

Um, so, I fell in love with James Larkin (Naomi’s romantic interest) about FOUR PAGES INTO THE BOOK.

Naomi must choose among three guys who represent different visions of love: Ace, a handsome tennis jock who offers her a seat at the popular table; James, a brooding misfit who sports suicide scars and offers an alternative to the life she finds so alienating; and devoted Will, her best friend and fellow yearbook nerd, the one best positioned to offer her the real Naomi. Naomi feels an immediate attraction to him especially after she realizes she can't remember anything in her life from the past four years.

She interacted more with her mother and new family than she had in the early part of the book, but I never saw any great epiphany about them. Sometimes you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realise all that was a false sort of closeness. Naomi's journey of self discovery led to many opportunities for her to change her life for the better and to rebuild her relationships with her family and friends. When her mother arrives in the hospital, Naomi asks her what happened to cause the divorce, and her mother admits that she got pregnant with a former high school friend's baby, and left Naomi and her father to move to the city. After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances.Naomi's best friend Will also visits and reminds her that he is her confidante, and also that her real boyfriend's name is Ace, a jock who is away at tennis camp. I think making Will an "old soul" type of guy fit for the way he was speaking (or maybe it was just an excuse cuz he sounded like such an old man) but it doesnt excuse anyone else. I missed her like a reflex, even though I knew that it was just some trick of my undependable brain. There were moments when she was with James (the boy that sort of rescued her from the fall) when I thought: even if she had lost her memory, surely she shouldn’t have lost her common sense, but apparently so.

It is a good book, i read it quickly in about two days and liked it but sometimes Naomi was a bit annoying as were other characters but you always find annoying characters in books. Some doctors suspect that Naomi may be using the accident to suppress past trauma, but Naomi is not convinced. The pacing, and how the book was set out ~ MEMOIRS OF A TEENAGE AMNESIAC is set out: "I was", "I am" and "I will".

She is strangely drawn to James, the boy who found her and rode with her to the hospital, who up until the moment he found her, had never met her. Although I can understand the heroine's motivations - forming a stance, an opinion on something, coming to terms with personal calamities, growing really fond of someone takes time, and therefore it is natural that somebody who has to restart at a later point in life with an earlier set of experiences takes different turns and comes to different conclusions than her first alter ego - I simply cannot get warm with her. but amnesia in general seems like such a contrivance - a staple of soap operas and romantic comedies, it never seems real, even though it happens every day. Visiting hours only started a minute ago, so he'll probably still come," Will said, by way of encouragement I suppose. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

I'm considering that my reading experience may have been different if I had read the book instead of listening to it on Audible. I also wasn't sure how I wanted things to be resolved, which is another feeling I like - because it feels like various outcomes could satisfy me. Unfortunately, Zevin seems to focus on this byproduct while ignoring the end goal--the whole self-discovery thing. I can see how that could be frustrating for girls who are used to books that tell them what to think, but I thought it was refreshing and made the book all that much more powerful.If Naomi should've been less whiny, Will should've realized that amnesia means you can't remember things.