When Freedom Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected to find survivors. Which is why the sixteen-year-old girl discovered floating among the wreckage-alive-is making headlines across the globe.
Even more strange is that her body is miraculously unharmed and she has no memories of boarding the plane. She has no memories of her life before the crash. She has no memories period. No one knows how she survived. No one knows why she wasn't on the passenger manifest. And no one can explain why her DNA and fingerprints can't be found in a single database in the world.
Crippled by a world she doesn't know, plagued by abilities she doesn't understand, and haunted by a looming threat she can't remember, Seraphina struggles to piece together her forgotten past and discover who she really is. But with every clue only comes more questions. And she's running out of time to answer them.
Her only hope is a strangely alluring boy who claims to know her from before the crash. Who claims they were in love. But can she really trust him? And will he be able to protect her from the people who have been making her forget?
From popular young adult author Jessica Brody, Unremembered is the start of a compelling and suspenseful new sci-fi series, set in a world where science knows no boundaries, memories are manipulated, and true love can never be forgotten.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
SciFi at its best
By Nicole @ Paperback Princess
I've never read anything before by Jessica Brody, but she seems to have the magic pen when it comes to writing. This was a clever and fun and man, I cannot wait for the next book in this series. This book Kept you guessing from start to finish as you tried to learn who this girl with no name survived a plane crash to finding out more about Sera and this Diotech Company which was after her.It was a little difficult to read at first. Sera had to relearn so many things that it was a challenge to see through her eyes. I just wanted to shake her and be like "ITS A STEAK, YOU KNOW ONOMNOM!?" But clearly, when someone cannot remember anything about themselves or, you know living, then you need to tread lightly in situations such as this. Once she started to use her brain, I found her much more tolerable, although there were still things that needed to be explained.I really loved her foster family best. They were so kind and caring even though there was something very clearly wrong with the girl they had just taken into their home. Cody was my absolute favorite, her funny and sweet foster brother who helped her try to learn who she really was and what she was supposed to be doing.I thought that this plot was crazy and creative and I'm eager to see what will happen in book two. Book one had it all, swoony boys, funny brothers, action and murder and so many more interesting things. I'm sure book two will measure up.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Great pacing and excitement, didn't quite stick the ending
By Catie Taylor
This book surprised me in a lot of ways. First of all, before I read the description I thought it was going to be just straight contemporary. Girl loses memory in plane crash, boy finds girl, boy tries to convince girl they were in love, girl eventually remembers (probably after another blow to the head), everyone goes home happy. Cut and dry, simple. That's what I was expecting. That is not what happened. I started reading this book at around 2 A.M. As I read the last words of the prologue I shot up in bed (like literally sat straight up) and said to no one in particular "What?!". Then I was hooked.LIKES:WTF just happened: as mentioned previously this book was full of surprises and I love it when a story can keep me guessing. Most of the surprises were well-timed and exciting and I loved that. Some of them could have been left out as well but overall I was happy with the level of excitement in the story.Great Pacing: at no point while reading this book was I bored. The microscopic chapters probably helped with this. There are 46 chapters in this book but they fly by at lighting speed, in a good way. Brody obviously knows how to tell a story without unnecessary padding.Sera and her crazy brain: I really don't want to give anything away so you'll have to excuse me if this review is a bit vague, but let me just say that I really liked Sera's voice. She isn't a normal amnesiac. She's actually always been a little different. Therefore she has a unique world-view and when you throw in a crippling case of amnesia, trust issues and all kinds of strangers the outcome is pretty intense. This isn't a "sit down and cry" kind of story, but it is one that makes you question what makes us who we are and Sera is a great example of that.DISLIKES:My brain hurts: this is a problem i often have with sci fi books. Some of it was a bit convoluted and a lot of it was hard to grasp. Perhaps if I had more of a background in science (or even science fiction) for that matter, I would have "gotten it" more easily. As it was, I struggle through understanding a lot of the technological stuff that was going on in the story. I think it could have been done more simply.Not exactly insta-love: Okay, so Zen and Sera have known each other for awhile and they are in love, at least until she loses her memory, but the intensity of Zen's feeling and Sera's willingness to reciprocate just didn't impress me. I guess I just didn't see the plausibility of the extent that Zen went to to get Sera back. That sounds heartless (and I will have you know that a certain college professor of mine used to say I was "cold" when it came to logic - I think we were talking about nuclear war at the time) but I just wasn't feeling it.Don't rush the ending: I really felt like the author piled way too much information into the last several chapters, tied up loose ends and then boom, it was over. Unfortunately, I didn't feel like there was much of a pay-off in the end and it didn't sit well with me.There are supposed to be at least two more books in this series. Honestly I'm not sure how I feel about that. I think that if the ending were different this could have been a stand alone novel and that would have been fine. However, I will most likely pick up the next one as I did really enjoy the writing style and the story, for the most part, was entertaining.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful."...in the end it's not very memorable."
By Steph Sinclair
Be warned: This review does contain mild spoilers.You know that feeling when you are expecting one thing out of a book and it completely delivers something else, and not for the better? It's the kind of situation where you expectations completely sabotage your reading experience. That's what happened with Unremembered and I. Technically, there isn't anything wrong with the story. I fairly enjoyed the writing style and the characters, but in the end it's not very memorable. It reminds me a lot of a few other sci-fi novels I've read recently: Origin and Eve & Adam. They all feature people created by science in some way or another, each with varying degrees of complexity. I'd situate Unremembered somewhere in between the two.The premise is what really drew me in. Seraphina is found at the scene of a plane crash with no memory of how she got there or anything from her past, including her name. As the novel wears on, the reader and Seraphina learn more and more about her past thanks mostly the Mysterious Boy that she feels drawn to. In the beginning, I was really enjoying it because it was intriguing. However, once the romance manifested and consumed the plot, the original excitement I had began to die off. There is a scene where the love interest, Zen, is more focused on her remembering him instead of other memories I felt were a bit more important given her situation (AKA, bad guys are after her and she doesn't know why). Apparently, he didn't feel that was important, which struck me as odd. Sure, he told her the basics, but his main priority was her remembering their love. Yes, this is me rolling my eyes.The other thing I took issue with was the whole, "Zomg! Science is evil! It will destroy our love!" The whole Evil Science is something some reviewers took issue with Jessica Khoury's Origin. I didn't because I felt like Origin only addressed the evil of what a few particular scientists were doing, whereas Unremembered lumps all of science in as evil. So if you had issues with Origin, it might be best to skip this one.And let's not forget these are teenagers claiming their love transcends all things a la Romeo and Juliet. It's the whole, "They won't let us be together, let's run away" plot, when what you think you're getting is a novel that is more than just a tragic love story. Zen is the only boy Seraphina meets. Her life experiences are severely limited because of what she is and most of their romantic interactions take place through brief flashbacks. This made it really hard for me to believe in their love and connect on that level. Not to mention, external forces are not the only things that complicate relationships and are generally not what tear couples apart. Unremembered creates this illusion that their love would be perfect if it weren't for Evil Science.And my final issue? Predictability. I had almost the entire plot figured out in the first 25%. I knew exactly why Seraphina ran away. I knew exactly where she ran away to (that one was incredibly obvious). I knew where she was from. I knew what she was. (BTW, what's with the purple eyes? I thought it would be relevant in some way, but it seems it was thrown in just for kicks to make Seraphina even more speshul than what she already is. But all it did was paint a gigantic Mary Sue marquee on her forehead.) The not-so-subtle plot twists helped to kill any left over excitement to finish the book. But I did, and was equally as underwhelmed with the ending.In the end, I find myself agreeing with Emily (from Goodreads) where she says Unremembered would be best suited for newer YA Sci-fi readers. It's swift and fairly action-packed, making it an easy read. It just doesn't do it as well as other sci-fi novels.ARC was received via Macmillan in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!More reviews and other fantastical things at Cuddlebuggery Book Blog.
