Fiction by Gordon Korman
Middle schooler Chase Ambrose wakes up in the hospital after falling off a roof, and he doesn't remember anything about his life. When he begins to find out about himself, he learns some things he doesn't really like: it seems like he was a real jerk before his accident. Can he become the person he wants to be, or is he stuck being the guy everyone remembers that he was before?
This was a great story for young people!
Fiction by Andrea Bartz
Lindsey’s friend Edie killed herself in 2009, when the girls were best friends and in their early twenties. Now it’s ten years later, and Lindsey begins to wonder what really happened that night.
This was an okay story but I didn’t like it very much.
Fiction by Megan Lally
At the beginning of this story a girl who has lost her memory finds herself gravely injured and in a ditch by the side of the road. She's quickly found by local police, though, and they seem to locate her father, who has been frantically looking for her. He says her name is Mary, but she's not sure if he's telling the truth about her name, or anything else...
This was an exciting thriller with an unexpected twist at the end.
Fiction by Abbot Kahler
Kat and Jude are twenty three year old identical twins. When they get in a car accident and Kat loses her memory, Jude takes the opportunity to rewrite history in order to protect her sister from the reality of their actual shared past. But the past always comes out, especially in psychological thrillers…
I didn’t really like this book. It was so obvious that Jude was making things up and then so annoying how bad a job she did of it. Then the revelations of the twins’ true history was just awful: both too graphic and oddly under-explained. I guess it mostly held my attention but I ended up disliking pretty much every character.
Fiction by Liv Constantine.
Addison is a young woman about to marry the man of her dreams, a guys she's only known for six months. That's not the real problem though; the problem is that she's only known HERSELF for two years because she lost her memory.
That's right, it's the AMNESIA TROPE!
Okay, I almost stopped reading at the beginning because I think amnesia as a plot device is generally lame; however, I decided to give this book a chance since I have really liked some of this author's books (and disliked some, unfortunately; see below).
I'll say the plot did resolve itself well eventually, and justified the memory loss as a real medical possibility for the character after everything was revealed. And there were a couple of big surprises! But it took longer than I would have preferred to get past the lame part.
So.... it was a good but not great thriller.
I also read by this author: The Wife Stalker (UGH), Misconception (meh), The Last Mrs. Parrish (great!), The Last Time We Met (good)
Not bad.