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All is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
2★'s
I believe I am in the minority one this one. I just couldn't get into it after the first few chapters.
It begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory. Her father, Tom, becomes obsessed with his inability to find her attacker and seek justice while her mother, Charlotte, struggles to pretend this horrific event did not touch her carefully constructed world. As Tom and Charlotte seek help for their daughter, the fault lines within their marriage and their close-knit community emerge from the shadows where they have been hidden for years, and the relentless quest to find the monster who invaded their town - or perhaps lives among them
I read a lot of real crime books as well as really gritty non-fiction books so I know it wasn't the violent rape that earned this book a 2 star rating. Actually that was the most interesting part of the entire book. The parents were so divided on the "treatment" that their young daughter received...a drug that would make her forget that the rape ever happened. I strongly believe it was more for the mother's benefit but the father didn't have enough backbone to say "no". Then most of the remainder of the book was an account by the psychiatrist that went on and on. I lost any interest in the book before the half way mark.
