Since I read Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella years ago I have been obsessed with amnesia books. There is just something so freeing about getting to start fresh and yet also scary about being thrown into a life you don't remember. I also think it is interesting to see how memories make a person and how without them that person might change. Naomi took a big fall at school and hit her head. When she wakes up she has lost four years. A big four hears since apparently her parents are divorced and her mother lives with her new husband and child. Her best friend is Will and he is trying to tell her about how much she loves yearbook but it seems lame to her. And the birth control pills she found means she must not remember losing her virginity to her boyfriend Ace. 
 Naomi gets quite a big shock. While I think some things I'd rather forget it would be extremely hard to work yourself back into your life with no memory of your friends or boyfriend. Naomi has no clue why she even ever liked Ace. But scared her memory may come back and she will regret losing him she tries to fit back in. It doesn't really work. Thoughts of the boy who helped who when she fell, James, keep her mind busy. Eventually she realizes that she just can't be who everyone wants her to be. 
 I loved the romance in this one even though there were three different love interests. It wasn't a triangle. It focused more on how different people are right for you at different times. It doesn't make the relationship any less important, it just means you grow and sometimes you aren't right for someone and then later you are. Or sometimes someone you thought you loved isn't the right one. The book focused more on Naomi finding herself. How it is difficult to move on and love someone new but eventually you do. This book went way deeper than I was expecting which I loved. Lots of things that get you thinking. I just love the quote her dad says that I included at the bottom. 
 The cover of a typewriter plays a big role as Naomi is adopted and was found as a baby in a typewriter case. I also loved how much family and what it means to be a daughter was explored. Now that Naomi's mom has a baby of her own, Naomi feels like as the adopted daughter she isn't as important to her mom. Her parents relationship is another that follows hers, meaning sometimes the person you thought was right isn't, but you can still find love again. It's hard but eventually you forget the pain. 
 I picked this book up especially for the amnesia plot but love when I find a best friends romance. At first I wasn't really sure how Will fit into Naomi's life. Slowly I did see how much he loved her and was protective of her. How much it hurt him to see her with other guys. But Naomi wasn't really ready for him but maybe now she is. Someone who sticks by you and sees all the bad and still loves you is someone is worth loving back. The ending was kind of open which is a bummer but I think it was headed in a good direction. I just loved and devoured this book. 
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 "Someday, we'll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I'll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that's when I'll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, because I'm liable to sink us both." 
 "You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you'll forget those, too. You forget your junior class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend's home phone number and the lyrics to that song you must have played a million times. For me, it was something by Simon & Garfunkel. Who knows what it will be for you? And eventually, but slowly, oh so slowly, you forget your humiliations-even the ones that seemed indelible just fade away. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. Who went to a good college. Who threw the best parties Who could get you pot. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last to go. And then once you've forgotten enough, you love someone else." 
 "I wondered if the person who really loves you is the person who knows all your stories, the person who WANTS to know all your stories." 
 "But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it."