By Mary E. Pearson
Publication Date: April 29th, 2008 (Henry Holt and Co.)
Hardcover, 266 pages
Genre: Sci-Fi; Dystopia; Mystery; Romance; YA
Source: Library
DESCRIPTION:
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?-from goodreads.com
REVIEW:
I really enjoyed Jenna as a character. She was quite fiery in her own way. She didn't need a sword to run people through with or blackmail she could hold people to—just her stinging wit, curiosity, and super intelligence. I never really pitied her for certain things, and maybe I should have, but I wasn't feeling it. However, I did feel sympathetic towards Jenna when her sour relationship with her grandmother, Lily, the person she loved best, was highlighted through many part in the book.In The Adoration of Jenna Fox, things are described as if Jenna is observing them for the first time, and it's written in a vaguely dream-like and reflective style, which I found I liked a lot.
The plot chugged along slowly, but the questions Jenna asked and the things she said provoked deep thought and reflection on the reader's part. The Adoration of Jenna Fox questions medical ethics most openly, but there are other undertones of themes in there. Also, the mystery of not only who Jenna Fox is, but what she is snags any reluctant reader and keeps them reading until the last page.
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