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Meet Joel. He’s 13 years old. He loves soccer, frozen yogurt and hanging out with his friends.
His life is pretty typical until the day he wakes up and discovers that nobody knows who he is… not his friends, not his family, nobody. He thinks he is all alone until he meets Sara – a teenage girl who has also been forgotten by everyone she knows.
Joel and Sara team up to try to understand what is happening to their lives, but things quickly turn from bad to worse. Before long, it becomes clear that time is running out for them both.
His life is pretty typical until the day he wakes up and discovers that nobody knows who he is… not his friends, not his family, nobody. He thinks he is all alone until he meets Sara – a teenage girl who has also been forgotten by everyone she knows.
Joel and Sara team up to try to understand what is happening to their lives, but things quickly turn from bad to worse. Before long, it becomes clear that time is running out for them both.
122 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 25, 2014
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November 4, 2014
I got a copy of this book from the goodreads giveaway program in an exchange for an honest review
How would you feel if you woke up one morning and everyone in your house was gone? How would you feel if you went to your team practice and nobody knew who you were and treated you like you had the plague?
This is what happen to 13 year old Joel. His friends act like they don’t know him his own parents kicked him out of his house, and his room does not exists anymore.
Something read and crazy and is going and Joel is determined to figure it out. While wondering around the town Joel runs into a girl named Sara, who actually is going through the same thing. They team up and are trying to figure out what’s happening. Little do they know that cameras are following them around and people are watching them.
Did they get taken to another planet? Are they stuck in a crazy time zone?
You must read the book and figure out what is happening and what’s going to happen with Joel and Sara.
This was a cute quick fast read. There was not a point in the book where I was bored. I really couldn’t put it down and couldn’t wait to figure out what was happening.
How would you feel if you woke up one morning and everyone in your house was gone? How would you feel if you went to your team practice and nobody knew who you were and treated you like you had the plague?
This is what happen to 13 year old Joel. His friends act like they don’t know him his own parents kicked him out of his house, and his room does not exists anymore.
Something read and crazy and is going and Joel is determined to figure it out. While wondering around the town Joel runs into a girl named Sara, who actually is going through the same thing. They team up and are trying to figure out what’s happening. Little do they know that cameras are following them around and people are watching them.
Did they get taken to another planet? Are they stuck in a crazy time zone?
You must read the book and figure out what is happening and what’s going to happen with Joel and Sara.
This was a cute quick fast read. There was not a point in the book where I was bored. I really couldn’t put it down and couldn’t wait to figure out what was happening.
July 8, 2015
This was another book sitting in my email and I loved it. Rob Hunt puts together a brilliantly mysterious short tale about a boy who one morning wakes up to realize that there isn't anyone who knows who he is.
It was marvelous - you meet Joel a young boy who just wants to play soccer and live his normal life and all of a sudden he can't - there is no one that knows him, he doesn't have any money, and everyone is acting crazy around him. He meets a girl named Sara and they join each other in the hunt for normalcy. The kicker is that they aren't sure that will ever happen and as a reader you are just as lost and confused.
I sat there reading trying to come up with all the various reasons this could be happening to them - some even they consider in the book but I had no idea that it would end the way it did. I absolutely adored this read, it had everything I wanted - it was shorter, easy to follow but at the same time mysterious and challenging. Great book!
It was marvelous - you meet Joel a young boy who just wants to play soccer and live his normal life and all of a sudden he can't - there is no one that knows him, he doesn't have any money, and everyone is acting crazy around him. He meets a girl named Sara and they join each other in the hunt for normalcy. The kicker is that they aren't sure that will ever happen and as a reader you are just as lost and confused.
I sat there reading trying to come up with all the various reasons this could be happening to them - some even they consider in the book but I had no idea that it would end the way it did. I absolutely adored this read, it had everything I wanted - it was shorter, easy to follow but at the same time mysterious and challenging. Great book!
December 26, 2014
I received this book as a First Read from Goodreads in exchange for an honest review. While I wanted to love this book, I wasn't quite able to. I do love the concept for the book, which is intriguing and enticingly clever. My difficulty was with the characterization and the development of the setting. I found it hard to relate to the characters and to truly care about their predicament. The setting seemed to slide in and out of focus, and distracted some from the story while I was trying to figure it out.
The ending of the book is brilliant, and totally made it clear to me why I experienced the difficulties I did with the beginning of the book. In the end, though, the power of the ending was not enough to make up for the fact that I could not get emotionally involved in the story through the characters.
The ending of the book is brilliant, and totally made it clear to me why I experienced the difficulties I did with the beginning of the book. In the end, though, the power of the ending was not enough to make up for the fact that I could not get emotionally involved in the story through the characters.
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