Book Review: All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Waller

All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Waller (July 14th 2016)

A young girl, Jenny Kramer, is brutally raped in a small Connecticut town.  The town desperately want the perpetrator to be a stranger, the girl’s mother wants her to forget what happens and allows a controversial memory drug to be used on the daughter.  When this causes complications the girl is referred to a psychiatrist to help her retrieve her memories in order to deal with the PTSD connected to her rape.

All Is Not Forgotten is unsettling form beginning to end.  The choice of narrator is unusual and the fact that the identity of the narrator is deliberately kept from the reader initially was a tad contrived for me.  The narrator’s suppositions of Jenny’s experiences alongside his detailed intrest in Jenny’s case is intrusive and unsettling.  The narrator’s almost omniscient viewpoint lends much tension to the narrative , however I found this unsettling.  However, having said that, I was hooked and was unable to put the book down.  I found it a compelling read and doubt that it would have been so compelling if the author had taken a more conventional approach.  All in all mixed feelings but, overall four out of five stars.
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