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Forget You by Jennifer Echols

I'll start by saying that I am a sap; a bonafide girl who dreams of romance and that cheesy riding off into the sunset scenario.  I've read some other books by Jennifer Echols and she is by far one of my favorites in romance.  Be advised, though, that this woman knows how to make you blush.

The book begins with a story within the story, which can be be tricky to pull off, but this one is emotional and is written very well.  After the initial story, it launches into the dramatics of a seventeen year old girl, Zoey, dealing with her mother's emotional breakdown and her emotionless father, whom wants the family's problems to stay within the family. 

Zoey is your stereotypical control freak, who obsesses on the strangest things.  She obsesses over being the perfect girlfriend for Brandon, the yummy football player, who is adorably clueless (for about five minutes, then it becomes annoying).  She bases her ideas on what she should be as a girlfriend on the failed relationships that she has observed first-hand over the summer.  She obsesses over the fact that Doug, the even yummier bad boy that hates her guts, knows the secret about her mom and is horribly afraid that he might say something, just to spite her.  She obsesses on her dad's girlfriend who is only 24 (can anyone say mid-life crisis?).  She also obsesses about sex.  Doing it, why everyone else is doing it, and ensuring that people are safe in their practices.

As if Zoey's life isn't stressful enough, she gets into a car accident on a rainy night.  The other people in the accident?  A boy named Mike and the one and only Doug that hates her.  To add injury to insult, she can't remember anything about the night of the accident, except that Doug was the one that pulled her out of the car and, for some reason, she feels attached to him when he pulls her out.

The next morning Zoey wakes up and Doug is at her house, treating her rather affectionately.  When it becomes clear that Doug actually wants her, she slams on the brakes and tells him she's with Brandon.  

Being the control freak that Zoey is, she decides to keep it hidden that she has amnesia.

Meanwhile, Brandon is totally distant and is no longer adorable to the reader.  Every where Brandon is not, Doug is there instead.

The story becomes a whirlwind in which Zoey is desperate to find out what happened that night, and has some incredible twists along the way (although one is not so surprising to everyone except Zoey).

The writing is frantic at all the right times and has a happy ending (my favorite ♥).

I'd rate it ★★★★ and a half and all in all and I would definitely read it again. 

Advisory:  I'd definitely rate it PG-13 for some sexual scenes and foul mouths.

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The Little Things

My life is full of incredible adventures in the most simplistic forms. In fact, our family motto is, “Always an adventure!”. Yesterday, my fabulous boyfriend and I were at the oh, so healthy KFC for dinner and we were the only people in there. That is until this frantic woman comes in with her kid trailing behind her. She bustles past us to the front counter and starts talking to one of the employees. I couldn’t tell you what happened from there because from that point on our attention was focused on the boy (who was 5 or 6 years old). He bounces from place to place drumming his hands on anything he can touch. His mother makes a haphazard attempt to calm him, but come on, it’s a little boy who looks like he’s been downing pixie sticks. So he finally rests on the station where the straws and napkins are, playing with various things until he stops on the little hole where you can throw away your straw wrappers. This, of course, lead to him pulling out straw wrappers and various sorts of trash. All the while his mother is still at the counter. Thomas and I are minding our own business, but out of nowhere Thomas says in a casual voice, “Mmm trash.” I look over and the kid is eating the straw wrappers! The irony of all of this is that the little boy heard Thomas, but the mom still had no idea that her son was still in the store. After the little boy looks at Thomas for a second, he continues on with his meal, searching for more gourmet cuisine. We must have laughed for ten minutes straight, it was so funny.

So this whole 300 words of a post may seem absolutely trivial, but that’s the whole point. It’s the inside jokes that make you and your best friend burst into hysterical laughter at any time… That’s what makes life such a great adventure!