A review by zoeturnspages
The Forgetting by Hannah Beckerman

emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

It definitely had me hooked in the beginning. I figured out what was going on about halfway through and after that it was just a matter of sticking around to see the how. I was very disappointed in the ending, it wasn’t what I’d hoped it would be.

I was probably a bit more triggered by Stephen/Dominic because of his similarities to a few of my exes but I still wanted to read on. I was hoping for a more triumphant moment and it just kinda fell flat and ended without tending to any of the details of tying up the ends left loose. 

Also, after having such a terrible accident, wouldn’t both of them be pretty severely injured? Not just her brain, but her whole body should have been pretty wrecked from that wall. How is she totally fine walking to the park so often? It just felt like a lot of details weren’t tended to but it did have me interested in the first third, so there’s that.

And being that Livvy was so close with her family, I don’t believe they’d let three weeks go by with the only communication being texts and emails telling them not to come WHILE THEY STILL HAD HER BABY?!?! Bea would be like 🚩🚩🚩🚩 immediately! I was thinking he had staged both their deaths or told them she died or SOMETHING but this was just disappointing. I’m sorry