Unremembered (YA Trilogy Book 1)

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How crazy to wake up surrounded by bodies. Can totally picture that in a movie. Call it a character flaw if you will, but I have a desperate need for things to make sense, or at the very least, I want to be tricked into thinking they do. This is especially true with sci-fi — obviously not everything is possible, or even probable, but there are ways of making even the most unlikely things seem real. This is where Jessica Brody failed: In this case, easy also meant unconvincing.

While I adore the subject of memory loss, it is a slippery slope for authors and very few of them do a good enough job. Human brain is still a big mystery, which I suppose allows writers to take certain liberties, but not everything can be random. An example of memory loss handled convincingly in YA would be Thyla by Kate Gordon, in my opinion, but like with her sci-fi elements, Jessica Brody bit off more than she could chew. The doctors say I should remember things like that. It took me a while to really get interested in Unremembered, but I have to admit that there were a few chapters around the middle that were pretty exciting.

Then, as the truth started coming to light, I found myself more and more disappointed by the revelations. It is a sad, sad day when I have to rely on romance to balance my review, especially in a genre like sci-fi. The entire situation screams wasted potential. I loved his loyalty and determination, his courage and smarts.

This is where Jessica Brody and I part ways, at least until she comes up with another, hopefully better thought out series. View all 3 comments. Books dealing with memory loss is my biggest pet peeve, I enjoy the entire concept; of for whatever reason a protagonist loses their memory and spends most of the story trying to discover who and what they were before the accident.

Unfortunately Unremembered for me falls into the latter category. Despite starting off fun, with Violet trying to find her place in her foster family and forming a relationship with her witty step-brother Cody, the path the story followed kind of dwindled off into strangers lurking in the shadows and accusations being thrown about all over the place of who Violet really was. The first half of Unremembered began solidly for me I even had the initial excitement that finally I had found a decent story dealing with memory loss.

But the second half just went over my head. If anyone has read decent books dealing with memory loss, I would love to know your recommendations. View all 6 comments. Despite a few scattered patches in the writing, this turned out to be a really great read. I love the story line concept. It was delivered with a great mix of mystery and intrigue and even gives us something more then what's typically expected. But I think it's the love story that really made this one standout. I've always been a sucker for undeniable love and Sera and Zen really made a dent in my heart.

The way Zen never gave up and is willing to do what ever it takes took my breath away. This w Despite a few scattered patches in the writing, this turned out to be a really great read. This was a great escape! I can't wait for the next book!! View all 10 comments. Feb 28, Khanh, first of her name, mother of bunnies rated it it was ok. Like so many books I've read lately, this one had a promising premise, a good beginning, but ultimately fizzles in its execution.

I have no complaints about the writing style, but the characters were flat and uninteresting, and it ultimately becomes a wannabe sci-fi that is both unoriginal and uninteresting in its execution. A girl is found amidst a plane wreck; she is not on the passenger manifesto and nobody can recall her being or getting on the plane.

She is found unharmed, in good physical c Like so many books I've read lately, this one had a promising premise, a good beginning, but ultimately fizzles in its execution. She is found unharmed, in good physical condition, and is remarkable in her beauty and purple eyes am I the only one sick of characters with odd colored eyes in YA fiction? Jane Doe is thus dubbed Violet, and with nobody to claim her, she is sent off to a foster family, where she tries to unravel the mystery of her past, while being p ursued by strange people and a boy to whom she is strangely attracted.

I did not find the romance believable at all. There were no sparks between the characters. The mystery of her existence was well done, it was when Violet began discovering who she actually is that I was lost due to complete disinterest. The plot didn't seem to move along at a believable path and pace. I just didn't feel compelled to finish it due to complete lack of interest because the second half of the book just lost me. It wasn't that the plot was too complex, I just found it dull. Considering the second half of the book is where the action is, that doesn't exactly speak well for it.

This is going to be a part of a series and I have no interest in continuing. May 04, Amanda rated it really liked it Shelves: You can also read my review here: This was a pretty cool read. For some reason I didn't think that I was going to enjoy it, probably because I bought a copy years ago and never read it, but it turned out to be a lot better than I thought it would be.

It's hard to write a review because this is one book where you really want to avoid spoilers. Much of the reason it kept me reading is because I was curious about what was going to happen next, so I'm going to You can also read my review here: Much of the reason it kept me reading is because I was curious about what was going to happen next, so I'm going to try and keep this spoiler free.

The plot and pacing kept me interested, because for so much of the book I was curious about who she was, since she didn't remember. I was worried that since she had amnesia that she would fall flat personality wise, but I think that somethings just remain a part of you even if you don't have your memories. She was a cool character and this story was so fun to read and I'm glad that it didn't get spoiled on me. The writing was good, but the plot was really the coolest part.

I think I would read the rest of the series, but I'm not exactly dying to know the rest of it. The ending wasn't a cliffhanger, but it's clear to me that the story continues. This isn't a book that I would reread, but the first time around is really cool. Sep 27, Bonnie McDaniel rated it did not like it Shelves: This book started out so promisingly For quite a while now, the trendy thing in young-adult novels is the first person, present tense point of view.

I personally think this POV is a bit problematic; I've written stories using it, but it's very easy to go over the top. There's a reason the past-tense POV is pretty much universal: That being said, this book's first-person, present tense, stream-of-consciousness POV is perfect for this story: We learn what happened the same instant Violet later Seraphina, her real name does.

She is, we come to find out, an unnaturally beautiful, unnaturally strong, unnaturally intelligent she has a savant-like way with numbers and unnaturally fast person who This is all revealed like a slow peeling of a tasty, sharp red onion, layer within layer. She wasn't actually on the plane she was supposed to be on. There's a boy following her around who tells her she's in danger, there are people hunting for her.

Said people do show up, whereupon she finds out she can kick car doors clear off their hinges and outrun racehorses. The boy tells her she actually comes from a lab called Diotech. The boy, Zen, also claims to have been her boyfriend and soul mate. She's kidnapped by the bad people and meets another man, Rio, who tells her she is indeed an artificial person, created by the Diotech corporation.

She and Zen get away from Rio, and Zen tells her all her still-vanished memories have been downloaded onto a tiny cube. He hooks her up to so-called "cognitive receptors"--tiny disks attached to her skull--so she can access them. The story progresses, with Seraphina and Zen now on the run from the bad guys. Then the bad guys catch up to them and take Zen. This is definitely a turning point for Seraphina; she is determined to free him and is willing to sacrifice herself to do so.

Going on the Internet to find a clue where he might be, she runs across Maxxer, a former Diotech employee who is willing to help her get Zen back. By this time, I realize we must be moving into far-future territory: Sure enough, we find out Diotech actually exists about a hundred years in the future. Okay, so time travel is involved: This doesn't come out of the blue, by the way; the idea has been well planted, with the repeated clue of the number "", which turns out to be the year.

I do pause when I read it; it's a bit of a heavy lift for a YA novel, but the story has been progressing so well to this point, I'm willing to continue. I wonder what machine the author will use for the actual time travel; the heart-shaped locket found on Seraphina seems altogether too flimsy to accomplish such a thing. But when a final clue is revealed, the time-travel device isn't a machine at all; it's a gene, and an artificially created gene at that, which allows the bearer to "transesse" short for chrono-spatial transession. I give the author credit for trying to create a sufficiently scientific-sounding term, but this simply doesn't work; it sounds like a brand of intersex cosmetic.

At this point, the story collapses under its own weight, and takes my suspension of disbelief with it. Look, this simply isn't plausible. Catherine Asaro and Julie E. Czerneda, two of my favorite authors and an actual physicist and biologist respectively, would not dare write such a hackneyed explanation as this. How the hell would you create something like this in the lab?

What combination of DNA and proteins would you even use? There's at best a feeble attempt to explain it, which amounts to a lot of frantic handwaving. And only one gene, one artificial gene, can manage this? Why wouldn't you need an entire artificial genome for something as monumental as time travel? How could you use such a gene to travel into the past? Just pick out a year and project yourself there, knowing nothing of where you might end up?

If Seraphina got separated from Zen during their attempted flight to , how the hell did she end up, all-too-conveniently, on a piece of floating debris after a plane crash? Why didn't she end up five miles into the atmosphere, or five miles under the surface of the ocean for that matter? Maxxer says you can implant this artificial gene directly into yourself?

Is it just floating around in her bloodstream? Seraphina gets the gene by drinking a liquid containing it. Why doesn't her stomach acid destroy it? How does she access it? As you can tell, I'm very irritated by this entire concept.

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To put it bluntly, it ruined the book for me, and I came near to smashing it against the wall. I forced myself to finish the story, mainly because by that time I was so invested in the characters. Seraphina does rescue Zen, and uses her lone artifical gene to get them out of the cave where they're being held. Even this, the way it's described, seems more like simple teleportation--another established science fiction trope--instead of this "transession" nonsense. They end up jumping off a cliff and supposedly finishing their aborted journey, back to I'm sorry, but this is just stupid.

It's really sad, because the book was so good. I can't imagine why the editor didn't demand this gene business be dropped. I could actually accept the time-travel idea if it had been done by a machine instead of how it was presented, but I suppose that would have made it too easy for the bad guys to follow our heroes.

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At any rate, be warned. Needless to say, I'm not reading the sequel. Mar 09, Mitch rated it it was ok. And knowing truly is a terrible curse. In most cases, planning is awesome, but the lesson here is, when you tip your hand, time to make new plans. View all 11 comments. Mar 03, Sierra rated it liked it Shelves: Read it in one sitting. It wasn't bad at all. It was quick, and interesting. Sometimes I feel like I'm falling out of love with YA, but I'm hoping it's just because books like this are younger. Like, the words used and alls that.

Apr 24, Misty Baker rated it it was ok. Well, because it poses a metric ton of questions to those of us knock on wood who have never had the displeasure of experiencing it. What would you do? What would you say? Would you willingly go with them? Is it our hearts? Ask a hundred people and you will get a hundred different answers. This is one of those times. On one hand it explodes with potential. Hot girl who is apparently strong enough to remove a car door with a single thrust. Evil secret government agency cover-ups, and time travel.

On the other hand…I can easily name at least 10 other books with the exact same elements with significantly better execution. While everyone around them relied on rhetoric to keep their dialogue moving towards the finish line. But that may not be the case for everyone else. Which is why I wanted to post a list. I am incredibly critical. But… I am also open-minded. While this book is not for everyone, there IS a place where it can be happy. It has an appropriate amount of intrigue despite its lack of originality and ends with a pretty interesting bout of action.

ALL things a younger reader needs to stay engaged, but not enough to keep older audiences enthralled. Especially in this blossoming Sci-Fi genre. Happy Reading my fellow Kindle-ites and remember: Nov 29, Crystal rated it liked it Shelves: I'm beginning to really enjoy books where the main characters have lost their memories and Unremembered is about just that.

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This book was another fun addition to the whole memory loss, government agency group but it does have a twist that will blow you away. Violet that is the name given to her by a nurse wakes up with no memory of who she is or where she came from. She is found in the middle of a plane wreck and is the only survivor. Nobody understands how she survived and unfortunately no one I'm beginning to really enjoy books where the main characters have lost their memories and Unremembered is about just that.

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Nobody understands how she survived and unfortunately no one has any answers as to who she is. Violet knows that she needs to get out of the hospital and work towards getting her memories back, but when a boy starts popping up things don't go as planned and she finds out that she is not your ordinary girl. With the help of her 13 year old foster brother and Zen a boy from her past she uncovers so many crazy things about her life that you will just have to read to believe.

Unremembered was an interesting book. It was a very quick read and even though I felt that the pacing was a little slow for me I was still intrigued and glued to the pages. Violet I am going to keep calling her that since her name is sorta spoilery was a likable character, but I kept waiting for her to turn into a kickarse heroine. There were several scenes where she could have opened up a can of whoopbookies but she didn't and I was a little disappointed.

In the story we do find out why this is, but I would have preferred her to be a little stronger. In the end she did come through but it was in a very unexpected way that was perfect for her character. Zen was a great addition as well. He was there for Violet and helped her solve the mystery of her life. Again though I just wanted a little more from him.

I liked their scenes together, they were sweet and I am really hoping that we get to see more of a romance between the two if there is a sequel planned. The ending is open enough to have one so I have my fingers crossed. The story itself was pretty good as well.



I totally didn't see the twist coming and I felt like it was a brilliant move by the author. This twist will help Unremembered stand out in a crowd that is quickly becoming overrun with books that are very similar to this one. I really can't say much about the story since the things I would say are spoilery. I will say that I am a little confused as what her role was at Diotech her home. We never get to see exactly what she did there so I am hoping that if there is a sequel we will also get to know more about her role and why she is so important. Like I said in the beginning I a m quickly becoming fan of this type of book and Unremembered is a wonderful addition to my collection.

View all 4 comments. Feb 25, Jenny rated it really liked it. Unremembered starts with a shock of cold water and a slew of questions and from there barely gives us a moment to breathe, catapulting us forward as a young woman with a blank canvas for a mind struggles to fill it once again with color. What's instantly noticeable and infinitely more intriguing than the amnesia alone is that Sera doesn't simply struggle to remember her past, she struggles to understand her environment as well; technology, slang, food and so many other things utterly foreign to Unremembered starts with a shock of cold water and a slew of questions and from there barely gives us a moment to breathe, catapulting us forward as a young woman with a blank canvas for a mind struggles to fill it once again with color.

What's instantly noticeable and infinitely more intriguing than the amnesia alone is that Sera doesn't simply struggle to remember her past, she struggles to understand her environment as well; technology, slang, food and so many other things utterly foreign to her when they should be familiar. The classification of this story as sci-fi tips us off to the fact there's more at play with Sera than memory loss, so her curiosity with regard to day to day life after her release from the hospital has our minds churning out possibility after possibility as to what exactly it all means, and we eagerly turn the pages to hurry alongside Sera as she attempts to find out Full review available at: View all 5 comments.

Hmm, well this was weird. It was fast-paced and turned quite sci-fi at the end! I liked that it managed to surprise me, but there was just some things missing. If I had to hear about how pretty she was one more time, I was going to throw the book. Also, Cody was Dec 26, Novels On The Run rated it it was amazing.

I have a tattoo. I like grilled cheese sandwhiches. I have long brown hair and purple eyes. I survived a plane crash. A plane crash I have no memory of. It grabs you with intrigue from the get go. Now I saw a few reviewers on Goodreads were stating this story has been done before.

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It depends on what genres you read a lot of. Any genre if you read it a lot you will find a story idea done before. As reviewers we read a lot of books. We can tend to assume that the general public read as much as we do, when that is not necessarily the case. I have not read much sci-fi , so for me, this was a great ride of twists and curve balls and it was very fresh and exciting for me. I was very entertained and surprised by where the story took me.

I really didn't want it to end. I am trying to keep spoilers out of this review as it is a story to experience yourself with where it starts to where you end up We were both in the dark waiting for the light to switch on. School of Secrets series of young adult fiction novels.

The genesis of the Unremembered trilogy started with a news article about a teenage girl who was the sole survivor of a plane crash, which inspired Brody to speculate reasons why she was the only survivor. Brody sold the publishing rights for her first middle-grade novel, Addie Montgomery's Shortcut to Growing Up , to Delacorte Press in Brody and fellow author Joanne Rendell developed the System Divine series, the first book of which is scheduled to be published in Spring From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This article is about the author. For the character in the television series Homeland , see Jessica Brody character. Retrieved 6 September Interviewed by Sarah Hamilton.