Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

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Sie weiß nichts von der Scheidung ihrer Eltern, kennt ihren besten Freund nicht mehr und weiß nicht mehr dass sie einen festen Freund hat. Naomi Porter, high school junior, yearbook editor, and superstar tennis player, falls down the front steps of her high school and, as if falling in a public place isn’t mortifying enough, hits her head and loses the past four years of her memory. It's honest, smart, and witty and I really enjoyed it like I did her first novel I read, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry.

Instead it was full of teen angst, choosing between three different guys, and trying to regain memory. People have said what brought them together was the fact that James wanted to forget his past and Naomi had literally forgotten hers. James treated the people around him like crap and used his depression as an excuse to get away with it. Especially since she decided to treat the characters I really liked, namly her dad and Will, rather badly.Sure, he tries annoying hard to get Naomi back into bed, which I find somewhat disturbing, but at least he's pretty nice. Naomi isn’t afraid of shattering everyone’s expectations of who she should be, and I adore that quality in a best friend! She has friends who simply don't seem that attractive anymore and, despite having meticulously kept a diary during the now-lost years, she only wrote about what she ate every day in it! Before I could do that, I had to get through City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, Clockwork Angel, Paranormalcy, and Supernaturally.

She finds out later that her dad admits to emotionally cheating on her mom the entire time, and he even says in his book, "it must have been exhausting to be my wife".

Naomi's journey of self discovery led to many opportunities for her to change her life for the better and to rebuild her relationships with her family and friends. There could've been so much done about a girl who wakes up in the hospital with her memory wiped, but it just didnt follow through. Young Jane Young won the Southern Book Prize and was one of the Washington Post’s Fifty Notable Works of Fiction. I believe that if Will had been more a part of the book, and we didn’t' only see him either arguing with Naomi or shutting her out because she didn't remember him, I would've been more pleased with the ending.