T List #10

The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

First half of the book was great. Second half, not so much.

The book starts with a girl coming to, hearing that she's about to be killed because she is useless. Luckily, she hears this and is able to formulate a plan. She knocks out the guy who is trying to kill her and flees. She has no memory. She doesn't know who she is, where she is, nothing. She does know she needs to escape.

She stops by a police station for help, but one of the bad guys has tracked her location, and tells the rent a cop that she has escaped from a mental hospital. She flees again, and meets Ty at McDonalds. She's been tracked there too, but Ty, tries to help her. She stays the night at Ty's place, and she is tracked again. They flee. They find out who she is because her story, one that is made up, mind you, is all over the news. She finds out she's from Portland, and has an aunt who is looking for her, so she and Ty steal a car to get there.

This is where it all goes downhill. The aunt is not really her aunt, and once the "aunt" gets the girl back to her house, all her lost memories come flooding back. Mystery solved. The end.

The chapters were relatively short. I wanted to like this book, I did, but the second half didn't live up to the first half, so I couldn't. This wasn't even as good as the book from last year's list by the same author, which was the sole reason I read this. Bummer.