Review: Are we reading the same book??
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2012
I read these reviews and think: Is this the same book?? The book these reviewer describe sounds like great fun and I really want to read that book. This book was not that book, in my opinion. I only got 23% in before I just rage quit!! This book had some redeeming qualities, but with one main BIG flaw...the main female protagonist. She is a complete lunatic!!! One moment she makes a decision to act like a proper lady and speaks just like someone from the time period, next, she's saying dude and jabbing out Lord Adrian's eyes in self-defense. I'm like: wtf just happened!!! One moment she's all self-righteous and determined to help somebody, next she's completely apathetic to them. She has no consistency and just floats from one thing to next with no plans and just kind goes along with everything around her. In the beginning, she seemed highly intelligent and strong as well as driven, but after she loses her memories, she just completely changes. She's flighty, has horrible attitude, rude, and uncouth, and frankly, a little slutty. All she seems to think about is sex and being bored. She lost her memories, not had a complete head transplant!!!! Amnesia can only take you so far!! The core aspects of your personality stay intact unless she has total amnesia, which is clear she does not. She has post traumatic amnesia which means she shouldn't have lost any aspect of her personality and she is also gaining her memories back. The author should have done more homework on amnesia than just slapping the protagonist with it and letting it explain all her 'quirks'. Quoting from a medical website "In general, memories of habits (procedural memory) are usually better preserved than memories of facts and events (declarative memory), and the most distant long-term memories, such as those of childhood, are more likely to be preserved. When memories return, older memories are usually recalled first, and then more recent memories, until almost all memory is recovered." Mastin, Luke, 2010 - Amnesia - Memory Disorders - The Human Memory - [...]The author should have done more homework on this and study more than just history before sticking the cliché amnesia label on this clearly unlikeable woman and letting it explain everything, didn't fool me at all. She was completely unrelatable and she pulled me right out of the story and destroyed any positive things I had to say about this story. This book is clearly not for everybody so don't read if you don't like flighty female leads with no strength of character or consistent thought processes.