Forget You by Jennifer Echols

Synopsis:
There’s a lot Zoey would like to forget. Like how her father has knocked up his twenty-four-year old girlfriend. Like Zoey’s fear that the whole town will find out about her mom’s nervous breakdown. Like darkly handsome bad boy Doug taunting her at school. With her life about to become a complete mess, Zoey fights back the only way she knows how, using her famous attention to detail to make sure she’s the perfect daughter, the perfect student, and the perfect girlfriend to ultra-popular football player Brandon.

But then Zoey is in a car crash, and the next day there’s one thing she can’t remember at all—the entire night before. Did she go parking with Brandon, like she planned? And if so, why does it seem like Brandon is avoiding her? And why is Doug—of all people—suddenly acting as if something significant happened between the two of them? Zoey dimly remembers Doug pulling her from the wreck, but he keeps referring to what happened that night as if it was more, and it terrifies Zoey to admit how much is a blank to her. Controlled, meticulous Zoey is quickly losing her grip on the all-important details of her life—a life that seems strangely empty of Brandon, and strangely full of Doug.

My Review:
I enjoyed this book! This was the first one of Jennifer Echols books I have read and after this I am definitely checking out her other book “Going To Far” which I heard is better than this one. It was a very realistic story about what can happen when your world seems to be falling apart. Both Zoey and Doug seem like two misunderstood people who have less than glamorous home lives but continue to try and put up a front and make the best of every situation. I can’t imagine what that must be like for Doug to constantly be verbally abused by his father and for Zoey’s father to remarry someone that is not much older than Zoey and a mother who has bipolar disorder. There was nothing earth shattering about the writing, but I want to own this book which is a mark of how much I enjoyed the story. I will admit that parts of this book seem a bit graphic for some young adult readers but otherwise I found it really entertaining and I would put this in the page turner category. Looking forward to more books by Echols.