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Loud Awake and Lost
Loud Awake and Lost
Author: Adele Griffin
ISBN-13: 9780385752732
ISBN-10: 0385752733
Publication Date: 11/12/2013
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Book Type: Library Binding
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Summary:
Ember has just been released to go home. She's excited, but once she gets there, she doesn't remember anything. Nothing is familiar. She can't remember anything until her best friend Rachel comes over. Then we find out that Ember was in a terrible car crash. She has suffered from traumatic brain injury and the other person in the car died. She fights to figure out who she was before the accident, and who she may be now.

My thoughts:
I like this story. It is intricate and the development of Ember is really impressive. We learn who she was, who she is, and what the pieces are that may be missing inbetween. The side characters add the most to the story. Rachel, the best friend, is probably the greatest character within the book. She has a distinct personality and is a constant source back to reality. She's a huge help in the rediscovery of Ember. While this is a strong character story, which I enjoy, it also is fairly slow. There are some chapters that I felt like I sped through and then some that seemed to drag on and I would count the pages until the end. I don't know if this was done on purpose to make the reader feel the difficulty of regaining oneself, but my feeling is that it was just some chapters were written better than others. That's the only issue that I had with the story, and it was not enough for me to stop reading. It's also not enough for me to keep it off my shelves. I definitely think this is worth reading, especially for high school students that are interested in inner narratives.