Status Updates From Save State Hero 1

Here's a funny thing. I remember liking this book and wanting to read the sequel. Now the sequel is out and but when I started reading it, I couldn't remember ANY of these people.
No problem I'll just go re-read the first book, I liked it once didn't I?
But NO. This book is dull so I checked my review at last... And I'd given it a TWO.
What made me remember it as a good book? That's the mystery haunting me.