The Forgotten Girl by Jessica Sorensen

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Twenty-one year-old Maddie Asherford is haunted by a past she can’t remember. When she was fifteen years old, there was a tragic accident and she was left with amnesia.

In the aftermath, Maddie’s left struggling with who she is—the forgotten girl she was six years ago or the Maddie she is now. Sometimes it even feels like she might be two different people—the good Maddie and the bad one.

Good Maddie goes to therapy, spends time with her family, and works on healing herself. Bad Maddie rebels and has dark thoughts of hurting people and sometimes even killing them.

For the most part, Maddie manages to keep her twisted thoughts hidden. That is until she starts having blackouts. Each time she wakes up from one, she’s near a murder scene with no recollection of what happened the night before and this helpless feeling like she’s losing control of her life. Maddie doesn’t want to believe she’s a killer, but she begins to question who she really was in her past. If she was bad Maddie all along and that maybe she was a killer.

I loved this book! I think that this may be my favorite book that I have read from Jessica Sorenson! I love reading psychological thrillers and this one was artfully crafted. This book was incredibly dark but I enjoyed that aspect of it.

I feel that for the most part the things that were uncovered by the end of the book were fairly predictable but the book was so well written that I didn't care. I was frustrated while reading it though because, we as the reader, are literally on the same page as Maddie for the entire book. We know what she knows but it was on no way slow paced. The pacing was appropriate and kept me feeling tense and captivated with the story the entire way through.

I thought that the way that the author went about the points of view in the book was interesting. It drew me into the story more and helped me to understand Maddie. I could understand why she was so confused, afraid, and angry at herself as well as her situation. I won't go into details because I don't want to put any spoilers in this review but just know that it makes for an intriguing way of getting into the main character's head.

I found this book to be fascinating. I was hooked from the very first page and immediately tried to piece together the puzzle to understand what was happening to Maddie and how the book would end. 

I will say that if you don't like dark books or books that don't necessarily have a happy ending, you may not want to read this one. I, for one, will be reading this one again because one read through is not enough.