Memoirs of A Teenage Amnesiac is a girl named Naomi, who is an orphan that was adopted from Russia after she was found in a typewriter case. The book Memoirs of A Teenage Amnesiac is about how she lives in Brooklyn with her adoptive parents her friends, but after an tragic accident, she can't remember anything from the last few years. Although some elements of her story sound unique, I think that most of her story follows the same plot and storyline as another book that I've read about an amnesiac, called Remember Me?
In both the books, a female trips and falls, gets into a car accident, or suffers some other slight damage to their head. Then, she wakes up in the hospital acting like how she acted before the time period that she can't remember. Then, you think that she's kind of witty, and a funny person, (you like her) but in reality, she's acting totally different than how she did in their "old life". As it turns out, she went from zero to hero within the time that she's forgotten. Outside of her personality, she has a close friend, a guy of course, and someone that she's in a relationship with. After a while of trying to ease into where she left off in their life before her accident, she decides that she doesn't fit in there anymore, and gets a new group to hang out with, or at least is friends with a few other people. And then she breaks up/divorces (with) her boyfriend/husband and admits her feelings for her best friend, who has had feelings for the girl along.
The thing that I dislike about this book is that it's so much like the other traumatic-head-incident-turns-amnesia books, like Remember Me?. They were both good books, but both had the same exact story line, which made it un-interesting to me because I knew what was going to happen.
Other than that, I like the story; it's one of those stories where you know that there's going to be a happy ending, and everything turns out ok. There's also a lot of character development, because the main character struggles throughout the book at finding out who they "really" are.
In the future, I would want to find a book about amnesia without a similar plot line, and take notes more on the character's development and look deeper into their actions. I think that if I reread Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and Remember Me? and read between the lines more, I would have a better understanding of what the characters went through and could better distinguish the story lines based on what the character feels.
In conclusion, although I think that Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and Remember Me? have similar plot lines, I think that rereading them thoroughly will help me appreciate them separately.
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