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The Adoration of Jenna Fox
by Mary E. Pearson
I've been meaning to read The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson for a long time--a REALLY long time. Apparently I first added this 2009 release to my GoodReads shelf in 2011, so maybe it hasn't been quite a decade that I've owned it, but it's certainly been awhile. Most of the young adult novels that have been sitting on my shelf for way too long don't seem to have held up very well, but I was still intrigued by this story, which focuses on a 17 year old girl, Jenna Fox, who wakes up from a year long coma and can't remember her old life. Her parents, along with her grandmother, have moved their family to California, and nobody is talking about the accident that put her in the coma. As bits and pieces of memories start to return, Jenna is determined to find out what really happened to her and who she is now.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox has an intriguing premise, which is what manages to sustain it for most of the book, but it does run out of steam eventually. The problem with having a main character who can't remember anything, including her personality, is that it's impossible to have any kind of emotional connection to her. So while I was intrigued by what might be going on, I wasn't really invested in it. I thought some of the questions Pearson raised regarding medical ethics were interesting, and not something I usually find in young adult books, but I wish it delved a little more into them. The characters themselves were nothing that special, this is definitely a plot-based book, and while I probably would have enjoyed it more a decade ago it was nice to finally read The Adoration of Jenna Fox.
The Adoration of Jenna Fox has an intriguing premise, which is what manages to sustain it for most of the book, but it does run out of steam eventually. The problem with having a main character who can't remember anything, including her personality, is that it's impossible to have any kind of emotional connection to her. So while I was intrigued by what might be going on, I wasn't really invested in it. I thought some of the questions Pearson raised regarding medical ethics were interesting, and not something I usually find in young adult books, but I wish it delved a little more into them. The characters themselves were nothing that special, this is definitely a plot-based book, and while I probably would have enjoyed it more a decade ago it was nice to finally read The Adoration of Jenna Fox.