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The Adoration of Jenna Fox — Mary E. Pearson

Release Date: April 2008
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co.
Challenges: Audiobook Challenge, 100+ Reading Challenge, Dystopia Challenge

"Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?"

Much like "The Maze Runner, " when I began listening to the Jenna Fox audiobook I almost had to stop to make sure I was starting with track one on disc one (and consult Twitter to confirm I was supposed to this confused. Once I realized that it wasn't just me, I was able to let go and listen.

It took me about four days worth of walks to begin to understand what was going on. This didn't exactly "put me off," but I wasn't in a hurry to find out either. The best word to describe how I felt about the beginning of this novel is "indifference." Because I had absolutely no idea what was going on I didn't feel a connection with Jenna and therefore didn't feel a connection with the book overall until very late into the novel.

That being said, while reading "Jenna Fox" I was able to see and understand all sides of the controversy — Jenna's, her parent's, and society's perspective. Generally I feel that as readers we automatically side with the protagonist and all other perspectives are simply "foot-noted." But with "Jenna Fox," all the perspectives were very equally represented and I appreciated the ability to think for myself as a reader and decide which perspective I agreed with.

I appreciated the novel and the ethics presented but, if I'm being honest, I didn't feel the connection to this book that I needed in order to pick up the second book. Again, I just felt indifferent towards this book — it wasn't awful but it didn't scream "never put me down" either.

I'm looking for a "never put me down" book to get out of my funk — any suggestions?

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