![]() After a daring escape from the scientists at Diotech who created her, Seraphina believes she is finally safe from the horrors of her past. We meet some cardboard characters, discover plot complications that don’t really hang together, and are assailed by developments that are far-fetched or just plain silly.Įvaluation: Can you believe it? Book One of a trilogy that I just won’t be pursuing…. Download the first five chapters of Unforgotten, the second book in Jessica Brodys Unremembered Trilogy. ![]() ![]() This initially promising set-up quickly degrades thanks to improbable and not well-drawn explanations that attempt to clarify who Violet is and where she came from. But she doesn’t know whom to believe or whom to trust, with the exception of the most (and possibly only) appealing and fully realized character in the book, 13-year-old Cody, Violet’s foster brother. Jessica Brody, bestselling author of Sky Without Stars and the Unremembered Trilogy The novel’s combination of nerdy humor and scary science, which gets scarier as the plot proceeds, is sure to captivate sci-fi lovers and haters alike. The hospital personnel start calling her Violet because of her unusual eye color, and soon arrange for a nice foster family, the Carlsons, to take care of her until she gets her memory back.īefore that happens, Violet keeps encountering a boy named “Zen” (for Lyzender) who tells her he is trying to save her from evil enemies, and that she must come away with him. The book starts off intriguingly enough, with a 16-year-old girl who is the only survivor of a plane crash, and who remembers nothing – not even her name. ![]() Note: There are no spoilers in this review. ![]()
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