Unremembered (Unremembered #1)

This was my first encounter with Brody's writing and I was thoroughly impressed. I was shocked as to why I had never picked up anything by her before. Unremembered is a mystery that had me on edge and I was begging by pg 110 to figure out what she really was and where she came from.
There is one lone survivor from the airplane crash from Freedom Flights 121. That one survivor was a 16 year old girl. No one knows where she came from or how she survived. Not even her. She has no idea where she is, who she is, or any details of her life before the crash. Including her name.
The biggest mystery throughout the whole novel is: Who (and what) is this girl? As it unraveled, it left me on edge and biting my fingernails. I was so enthralled in this mystery. And what I loved most about it, was the fact that I didn't guess what she was. I wasn't even close. What she was, was had way more thought in it than what I thought and I enjoyed that.
I also enjoyed that even though there was this huge secret throughout most of the book, when it was finally revealed, there wasn't an info dump. It even felt like some of the questions were unanswered towards the end. (Which is good since it set itself up for a sequel.) It gave just enough info at a time to keep me interested and to keep the plot running smoothly.
The characters were interesting to learn about. (Not including Sera.) Zen was amazing and so sweet. Gah I mean "S+Z=1609" *Swoon* I would give away why that was so important to me, but it would be spoiler-ific lol So, I'll just leave that alone. Then there's Cody. I hated him at first, but then he began to grow on me. After his little confession I understood where he got all the pent up anger and I was glad he let some of it go.
After reading this I still had so many questions running through my head. Like about Maxxer and more about Diotech. Brody sure knows how to keep her readers coming back for more! I can't wait to read the second installment in this gripping sci-fi mystery.

I had been crazy excited for Unremembered ever since I discovered its existence. What really attracted to me about Unremembered was the main character being the lone survivor in a plane wreckage with a definite memory loss. I thought it didn't get any better than that. Only it got worse. I wanted to like Unremembered, I really did. But I just couldn't connect with it. Despite being just over 300 pages long, it took the book more than 250 pages to finally pick up its pace.

Not only that, I felt there was a lot of repetition. It's one thing for Zen to find her but it took more than a few meetings for him to finally say something substantial to her. I know people are lying to her and what not but I wanted to scream at her to believe the guy already. More so when she almost trusts the wrong guy.

I also had a lot of issues with Cody. He's supposed to be this 13-year-old foster brother but he acts like he's Seraphina's age fellow. He drives cars and can apparently leave and come home whenever he pleases. And it doesn't help that he has a bit of an attitude despite his claims that pretty girls tend to look through him. Naturally, there is a lot of talk about the supermodel beauty of Seraphina which I got tired of really fast.

Seraphina is a pretty decent character; she doesn't have a sense of belonging and only a meager amount of clues. She talks in foreign languages without even realizing it and she is this super smart math geek with an urge to count everything around her. However, she lacks depth which could've not been the case. Her thought process is predictable and she isn't memorable at all.

Zen is the love interest and though we only get glimpses of how they fell in love, it is clearly not enough. He doesn't have much of a back story so you really don't get to know him. There's the Sonnet that they just keep repeating throughout the book and the warm feeling Sera gets in between her eyebrows. Their romance is just really unbelievable somehow.

Just when I was about to give up on Unremembered, it decided to get better. The whole mystery was unveiled and while a lot of questions were answered, some are left unanswered. I was quickly awed by the whole mystery of how Sera ends up in the wreckage and who she's running away from.

Honestly, if the whole book could have had more depth, I'd have definitely loved it. I loved how it ended, I finally felt the ohmigodyes feeling right there. And that was the Seraphina I was hoping to read about. So while I'm not giving up on the series, I just hope Unforgotten is way better than Unremembered.

The story started out pretty good, but then things got too unbelievable, and I doubt I'll remember "Unremembered" in six months.