Molly's review
The Adoration of Jenna Fox
by Mary E. Pearson
Molly's review
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Molly's review
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bookshelves:
best-of-new-stuff-presentation,
ya-lit-for-adults,
yalit
Who is Jenna Fox? Even Jenna herself doesn't know. She's been in a terrible accident (or so she's been told) and has only been out of the drug induced coma for two weeks. She can't remeber a thing, but over the weeks bits and pieces come to her. Like, her favorite color, that she calls her mom by her first name, and when she was baptized as an infant. Wait, how is that she is begging to remember things that shouldn't be possible? And, why does her grandmother treat her so coldly, when one thing Jenna does remember is they used to be so close?
Has Jenna begins to learn more things about who she was and who she has become, a shocking secret emerges.
Pearson's dystopian novel is chilling and brilliant. Its a quick read, made even more so because you simply can't put it down. I was most impressed by the development of Jenna's character. At the beginning, when she knows so little of herself, she is flat and sparse. But, as she pieces her life back together, she becomes so much more. T...more
Has Jenna begins to learn more things about who she was and who she has become, a shocking secret emerges.
Pearson's dystopian novel is chilling and brilliant. Its a quick read, made even more so because you simply can't put it down. I was most impressed by the development of Jenna's character. At the beginning, when she knows so little of herself, she is flat and sparse. But, as she pieces her life back together, she becomes so much more. T...more
