Review & Readalong ~ Memoirs Of A Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin

After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fragments of the last three-and-a-half years of her life. She discovers that she has a tennis-champion boyfriend but can't remember him, is co-editor of the yearbook with a quirky guy who wears a smoking jacket, her parents are divorced, and she apparently hates her mother. She has friends who simply don't seem that attractive any more and, despite having meticulously kept a diary during the now-lost years, she only wrote about what she ate every day in it!

But when a girl loses three-and-a-half years, she gets a chance to reinvent herself. After all, who is to say that everything has to stay the same?

This was a really nice read, I liked the fact that we were learning about Naomi at the same time as she was following her accident. I liked the fact that she just behaved how she wanted as she didn’t know how she was supposed to behave.

I loved the writing style and thought that it flowed really well. There were quite a few very deep themes covered in the book and it was also very thought-provoking as well as entertaining to read.

It was clear to everyone, except Naomi it seemed that Will was totally besotted with her. She'd not realised pre-accident and hadn't picked up on it post-accident either for a long while!

Huge thanks to Tandem Collective UK for my place on the readalong.