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All Is Not Forgotten
by Wendy Walker
That's right - Five Stars!
This is the story of Jenny Kramer, a teenage girl who goes to a high school party at another student's house and ends up being raped in the woods behind the house. While at the hospital, her parents are told that there is a new treatment being used to help veterans with PTSD. This treatment, via a pill, removes the incident from the person's memory. The problem is that the longer they wait before the treatment is given, the less chance there is that it will work. Jenny's parents are not in agreement as to whether or not to go ahead with the treatment. On one hand, Jenny will be free from memories of this traumatizing event; but on the other hand, since she will have no memory, that means she will be of no help in finding out what happened and who did this and the perpetrator of this crime will not be brought to justice.
The story is being told by someone and we don't even find out who that is until we are nearly 20% into the story. I liked that. At first I thought maybe I had missed something, but I figured it would sort itself out eventually and so I kept on reading. It was clever. This narrator repeatedly gets ahead of himself and will make side comments that he will get to that later. I usually don't like when that happens - especially if it happens over and over again, but in this case I liked it a lot. I liked that now I knew something about where this was headed, but not enough to make sense of it. I liked all of the characters in the story - even the unlikable ones. Each character was fleshed out and I never had any confusion as to who was who and what each one was all about. I like that characters lose their moral compasses and find themselves making decisions they never would have made prior to this tragic event.
There is one thing I didn't like about this book. But other than that, I liked everything else, and even with that one thing I didn't like, it wasn't enough to remove a star from my rating.
This is the story of Jenny Kramer, a teenage girl who goes to a high school party at another student's house and ends up being raped in the woods behind the house. While at the hospital, her parents are told that there is a new treatment being used to help veterans with PTSD. This treatment, via a pill, removes the incident from the person's memory. The problem is that the longer they wait before the treatment is given, the less chance there is that it will work. Jenny's parents are not in agreement as to whether or not to go ahead with the treatment. On one hand, Jenny will be free from memories of this traumatizing event; but on the other hand, since she will have no memory, that means she will be of no help in finding out what happened and who did this and the perpetrator of this crime will not be brought to justice.
The story is being told by someone and we don't even find out who that is until we are nearly 20% into the story. I liked that. At first I thought maybe I had missed something, but I figured it would sort itself out eventually and so I kept on reading. It was clever. This narrator repeatedly gets ahead of himself and will make side comments that he will get to that later. I usually don't like when that happens - especially if it happens over and over again, but in this case I liked it a lot. I liked that now I knew something about where this was headed, but not enough to make sense of it. I liked all of the characters in the story - even the unlikable ones. Each character was fleshed out and I never had any confusion as to who was who and what each one was all about. I like that characters lose their moral compasses and find themselves making decisions they never would have made prior to this tragic event.
There is one thing I didn't like about this book.