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Forget You
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After reading Going Too Far and The Boys Next Door, which were really good to excellent (esp Going Too Far), I was excited to read to this book. The description was interesting, something a little different from other books of this genre.
I had a hard time feeling anything for Zoey. She was delusional about a "relationship" that was basically a one night stand with a friend, and that drove me crazy. For someone that seemed to be pretty bright, and who knew how her friend operated, it seemed completely out of character for her to think the one night stand would be anything more to him.
Her dad was a total booger head and her friends were so quick to turn their backs on her. I found both to be such extremes in human nature. I'm sure there are people in the world who are like her dad, but it just seemed so unrealistic for a father to care so little and be so terribly horrible to his child who was just involved in a car accident pretty much immediately after her mother attempted to commit suicide - just heartless. I can understand her friends being upset, but I also feel they would have known a little about her home life so that they didn't overreact as much as they did.
The one character that I really did like and who I believe remained pretty constant was Doug. What a dreamy guy with a contradicting personality (quick tempered but patient at the same time). He was probably the driving force in keeping me reading the book and rooting for a happy ending.
Sorry, Ms. Echols - really wanted to put Forget You right up there with Going Too Far, but I just couldn't.
I had a hard time feeling anything for Zoey. She was delusional about a "relationship" that was basically a one night stand with a friend, and that drove me crazy. For someone that seemed to be pretty bright, and who knew how her friend operated, it seemed completely out of character for her to think the one night stand would be anything more to him.
Her dad was a total booger head and her friends were so quick to turn their backs on her. I found both to be such extremes in human nature. I'm sure there are people in the world who are like her dad, but it just seemed so unrealistic for a father to care so little and be so terribly horrible to his child who was just involved in a car accident pretty much immediately after her mother attempted to commit suicide - just heartless. I can understand her friends being upset, but I also feel they would have known a little about her home life so that they didn't overreact as much as they did.
The one character that I really did like and who I believe remained pretty constant was Doug. What a dreamy guy with a contradicting personality (quick tempered but patient at the same time). He was probably the driving force in keeping me reading the book and rooting for a happy ending.
Sorry, Ms. Echols - really wanted to put Forget You right up there with Going Too Far, but I just couldn't.
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Oct 28, 2010 08:32AM
I completely agree with you. I loved the book but the fact that after they hooked up they were together! It drove me insane.
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I loved Doug too! I think, like you, he's the reason I kept on reading the book. And I don't see how she got "boyfriend" out of the one night stand anyways. She knew he was always doing that with other girls and that he had a different girl every other week, so what made her think she was any different?
I didn't even finish this. It sat on my desk for two weeks before I realized no one was forcing me to read the book.
i struggled with all of the same issues as you did. All seemed a bit farfetched and unrealistic. That said, I did completely fall in love with Doug! :-)
I got frustrated with the whole Brandon thing- it was pretty obvious that they weren't together together. I thoroughly enjoyed Doug's sarcasm and other personality traits though, apart from the whole lying to Zoey about things that had happened between them
I completely agree with what you said about Doug. And it drove me insane that she was soooooo delusional with her and Brandon their was nooo relationship their what so ever.
I completely agree with you. It's unsettling and unnerving how ludicrous the story came to be.
I totally agree! Thought Zoey was being really selfish about her mother freaking out in school. Have a little more sympathy for your mother when she wanted to commit suicide. It was totally unrealistic. Even Doug being so caring and considerate was unrealistic at times, but kept me reading as well.
