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Forgotten by Cat Patrick
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Forgotten (edition 2012)

by Cat Patrick

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Sixteen-year-old London Lane forgets everything each night and must use notes to struggle through the day, even to recall her wonderful boyfriend, but she "remembers" future events and as her "flashforwards" become more disturbing she realizes she must learn more about the past lest it destroy her future.… (more)
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Title:Forgotten
Authors:Cat Patrick
Info:Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2012), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 320 pages
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Interesting premise in the wrong author’s hands. Went in directions it really didn’t have to, which made the story weaker and unnecessarily weirder. ( )
  emma_mc | Jul 24, 2022 |
Really interesting concept, disappointing execution. The idea of a kind of backwards memory is a good one but I didn't feel like it was fully explored and many of the plot points surrounding it didn't quite make sense. For example, thoughts about thoughts. The protagonist remembers the future but not the past, so why doesn't she wake up on Monday knowing exactly what will happen because on Tuesday she will read the previous days notes and think about them?

I also found myself very frustrated with her reluctance to take control over her own life. She can see the future but doesn't try to change it, at least not right away, which was baffling to me. Has she never consumed a piece of media about time travel or prophecy? Even if she believes her "memories" are unavoidable there's room to scoot around in the margins and make a difference and she mostly ignores this, a trait made even more confusing by the fact that she should be able to draw on her adult life expiriences to make decisions.

One more thing, the relationship in this book should not have happened. The guy the protagonist likes is an anomaly, she can't remember anything about him outside of the day she's in. You can't base a healthy relationship on that. This is "50 First Dates" weird but they are teenagers so it's worse. ( )
  mutantpudding | Dec 26, 2021 |
She had no warning for the day ahead and she should have, it should have been in her notes. He should have been in her notes. Instead she was blind sighted by a new boy she has no memories of ever meeting, and since she can only remember the future she has to assume he is not a part of her future.

Reading through her notes she realises she had seen this boy before, both yesterday and the day before. It is evident that she will most likely see him again tomorrow, but for some reason he does not appear in her memories. However the presence of a new memory, one dark and foreshadowing death is about to turn her life upside down.

Forgotten is a past scribbled on notes and a future remembered before it is lived. While her mother is not around, her father is not in her life and her best friend is not speaking to her, the one person there for her is the one person she can't remember. A simple yet touching story of a girl who, although having no past, can see the future bright and clear. However despite her uniqueness she is just an ordinary girl falling in love and finding hope for the future. ( )
  LarissaBookGirl | Aug 2, 2021 |
teen fiction. cute romance/mystery-suspense starring 16-y.o. who lacks ability to keep short-term memories overnight. Falls in love w/gorgeous boyfriend everyday, but also fears what she can't remember--some dark memories from her past (or is it her future?) ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
Rating: 4/5

This book reminded me a lot of the movie: 50 First Dates, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrimore but with a more serious tone and a psychodrama twist.

The story of London Lane and her gap memories was now and then very sad and bittersweet; she remembers the future the way we remember the past, and as for her past, you can say that she’s got none at all. At six, after a tragic and traumatic accident, and at exactly 4:33 p.m. she lost the ability to recall her past memories, therefore each and every day at the exact same time, the events of her precedent day are wiped clean and all is left for her are her notes, notes of what she has done yesterday, what she wore, her homework and other little notable things; notes that she reads every morning in order to look as normal as possible to her fellow classmates. All she can bear in mind is the future, and a very dark memory of a funeral; she doesn’t know whose is it and as the story goes, pieces of the puzzle come together to uncover the most shocking truth, one that can alter both her past and her future.

I was bewildered at first with London’s ability to recover the future and forget the past days, it was all fuzzy and I *almost* dropped it, but fortunately it was explained by bits throughout the book. Also, I was bothered by her actions to change the future deliberately, won’t she alter some things? Karma and stuff, what goes around, comes back around? Even if her intentions were at heart, I think that she had no right to act the way she did toward her best friend Jamie and Page.

The romance was toe-curling and very, very sweet. Luke Henry is one of the most romantic guys I’ve ever encountered, in sometimes a cheesy, corny but heart-warming nonetheless, way. He had his own agenda you could tell, but you can’t help but sigh heavily for all what he’d done for London; what guy would recreate for you your first date, leaves little notes to make sure you remember him and the happy memories you shared the day before, or would cope amazingly with the fact that each day you wake up and you don’t recall who he is. This is why, he reminded me a lot of the movie 5o First Dates/ The Notebook two of the most romantic stories ever.

I read it all in one setting, eager for more of Luke Henry the unraveling the mystery, so it would be an understatement to say that I liked it very much and if all Ms. Patrick’s heroes are this swoon-worthy, I will definitely check out more of her books.
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  Ash600 | Mar 19, 2021 |
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Sixteen-year-old London Lane forgets everything each night and must use notes to struggle through the day, even to recall her wonderful boyfriend, but she "remembers" future events and as her "flashforwards" become more disturbing she realizes she must learn more about the past lest it destroy her future.

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