Friday, March 21, 2014

"Loud Awake and Lost " by Adele Griffin (289 pages)

Seventeen year old ember was in a tragic car accident that threatened her life. She suffered severe back injuries and brain trauma. She doesn’t know anything that happened the night of the accident along with the six weeks prior to her accident. Ember doesn’t have any sense of recognition of who the boy she was with was, where she was driving to, and why her friends and family won’t talk about it. After being in the hospital for 8 consecutive months, Ember returns home and is left with nothing to cling on to other than patiently waiting for her memory to come back to her. While dealing with the physical and mental scars after the accident, Ember struggles to accept that her devoted life to dance has come to an end.
While struggling to put back together pieces of her life, places, faces, and events, she goes to a club she supposedly visited a lot where she meets a boy named Kai. His compassion and understanding of Ember results in an instant connection for the two of them. While being obsessed with gaining her memory back, Ember develops a true love for Kai. Follow Ember through her confusing, yet exhilarating journey trying to get her life back in order, you won’t forget it.

I have a love hate relationship with this book for the same reason which is Ember’s journey to getting her memory back while trying to figure out the person she wants to be. It’s a tragic, but heartwarming and thrilling journey that I truly enjoyed along with being frustrated with how she handled some situations, but that’s just another teenager for you. I’d definitely recommend this book.

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