THE ONE MEMORY OF FLORA BANKS

"I am really here. Yet I know I am not. I am inside something that must be buried in my head. I am layers deep in my own brain."⁣⁣

AUTHOR:Emily Barr⁣⁣

Flora is 17, and has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything and everything unless she writes it down-on her hands and paper⁣⁣

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But one night, she kisses a boy and remembers the next day. But the boy is long gone. Will he be her cure ? Is he the secret to unlocking her memory ?⁣⁣

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The premise of this book is so interesting! I was immediately excited by the prospect of reading the story through a character with amnesia.⁣⁣

The author, gave great and timely details into Flora's life and her illness and I thoroughly enjoyed reading how Flora figured things out after she lost her memory.⁣⁣

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Even though the first half is very damsel in distress, with Flora swooning over the boy , Drake (if I had one penny for everytime she talked about it... I would be out on mars by now)and believing that he can cure her and they'll live happily ever after⁣ and reliving her memory over and over (which was irritating, but important to a girl with amnesia) and making questionable decisions (she's badass+ borderline dangerousis all I wanna say)⁣⁣

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The second half picks up the slack and is filled with nasty revelations, twists and turns and a Flora that you can't help but love.⁣⁣ ⁣

Can we please also address how little precautions she took for her own illness, it was beyond me.⁣⁣

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But there is so much to look forward to in the second half of this book, the people she meets, her conversations with said people, her weirdly irresponsible but hyper-protective parents, her kind brother and his love for her, the adventures she took and the last few pages are mind-freaking-blowing. It'll leave you warm and hopeful and sort of amused and happy.⁣⁣

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I didn't really like the book as much as I hoped but it was an amusing and quick read⁣