Cat Patrick
RELEASE DATE: June 7th, 2011
PAGES: 304
PUBLISHED BY: Egmont Books Ltd.PAGES: 304
Each night at precisely 4:33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. London is used to relying on reminder notes and a trusted friend to get through the day, but things get complicated when a new boy at school enters the picture. Luke Henry is not someone you'd easily forget, yet try as she might, London can't find him in her memories of things to come.
When London starts experiencing disturbing flashbacks, or flash-forwards, as the case may be, she realizes it's time to learn about the past she keeps forgetting-before it destroys her future.
This book reminded me a lot of the movie: 50 First Dates, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore but with a more serious tone and a psychodrama twist.
The story of London Lane and her gap memories was now and then very sad and bittersweet; she remembers the future the way we remember the past, and as for her past, you can say that she’s got none at all.
At six, after a tragic and traumatic accident, and at exactly 4:33 p.m. she lost the ability to recall her past memories, therefore each and every day at the exact same time, the events of her precedent day are wiped clean and all is left for her are her notes, notes of what she has done yesterday, what she wore, her homework and other little notable things; notes that she reads every morning in order to look as normal as possible to her fellow classmates. All she can bear in mind is the future, and a very dark memory of a funeral; she doesn’t know whose is it and as the story goes, pieces of the puzzle come together to uncover the most shocking truth, one that can alter both her past and her future.
I was bewildered at first with London’s ability to recover the future and forget the past days, it was all fuzzy and I *almost* dropped it, but fortunately it was explained by bits throughout the book. Also, I was bothered by her actions to change the future deliberately, won’t she alter some things? Karma and stuff, what goes around, comes back around? Even if her intentions were at heart, I think that she had no right to act the way she did toward her best friend Jamie and Page.
The romance was toe-curling and very, very sweet. Luke Henry is one of the most romantic guys I’ve ever encountered, in sometimes a cheesy, corny but heart-warming nonetheless, way. He had his own hidden agenda you could tell, but you can’t help but sigh heavily for all what he’d done for London; what guy would recreate for you your first date, leaves little notes to make sure you remember him and the happy memories you shared the day before, or would cope amazingly with the fact that each day you wake up and you don’t recall who he is. This is why, he reminded me a lot of the movie 5o First Dates/ The Notebook two of the most romantic stories ever.
I read it all in one setting, eager for
Rating:4/5
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