Gabrielle Zevin has outdone herself with this surprisingly innovative take on a classic tale of amnesia. Through a twist of fate, Naomi Porter goes back to get the yearbook camera one afternoon in August, falls, and hits her head on her school's steps. She wakes up in an ambulance with a strange boy by her side and no memory of who she or anyone around her is. Whether she's reliving her parent's awful divorce or getting to know James, the boy with the questionable past who tells her he once wanted to kiss her, Zevin's sometimes-snarky, usually touching, and strikingly real voice shines through every page.
This book immediately hooked me, from the nine-word table of contents to the short prologue, which illustrates the fact, "Sometimes, a girl needs to lose." Although this book is advertised as a love story, I believe that it's really a tale of how everything happens for a reason. Occasionally clichéd and with an ending that leaves you desiring more, but not in a good way, this book is not without its flaws - but overall, it is an above-average second novel that fans of Elsewhere (her debut), will devour.
Hungry Lionel gives this:
3.5/5
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