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I adored the Adoration of Jenna Fox. The story was original, suspensful, and thrilling. It had many elements of family, friendship, and relationship that I identified with. It is a book that makes you thinl about right, wrong, and the shades of color in between the two.

Simply put, Mary E. Pearson made me think. She made me wonder who Jenna Fox was and who I ultimately am. I wondered what I would do if I had been in Jenna's shoes, her parents shoes, Lily's shoes, or Alyss' shoes.

The book was well written laced with traditonal and dystopian threads. That intertwining of past and future made it impossible for me to stop reading until I came to the conclusion of the book.


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The Adoration of Jenna Fox The Jenna Fox Chronicles Mary E Pearson Books Reviews

This is one of those books where I immediately want to tell you all the things that are wrong with it before you roll your eyes at me for liking it so much.

So here goes The science (fiction) is sloppy. To avoid going into spoiler-level detail, let me just say that there are multiple problems with Jenna feeling anything, given the state of her endocrine system. Despite the Internet, there is little detail about the outside world beyond some references to killer antibiotic-resistance bacteria, a healthcare monitoring agency, and a big earthquake. The most imaginative gadget in this near future world is a Netbook. The power dynamic between Jenna and her parents should have been used to generate far more dramatic tension. Other than Jenna's grandmother Lily, the characters are more character type than fully formed people (including Jenna). And the students at Jenna's near future alternative school all serve as counterpoints to Jenna and her fundamental struggle, each one neatly placed to get her to reflect on a specific aspect of her identity.

And does she ever reflect. Perhaps as a middle aged man I cannot relate to the endless musings of a teenage girl. At least half the book is a dull internal monologue on the nature of self, of what it means to be alive, what it means to be human. But then teenage boys and the middle aged also have such monologues. While it is nice to know that others think such thoughts, I do not really need to hear every one of them. And while life decisions derived from all the musings were articulated as action, it was often underwhelming action.

Nevertheless ... I was hooked by the initial mystery. I thought I had it figured out only to be proven wrong. I found the development and a couple of the twists intriguing and well thought out. And I liked the end, the way Jenna came to terms with who she was, which had a refreshingly small amount of musing. In a nutshell [SPOILER ALERT] I thought the attempt to retain one's humanity after being turned into a machine was an interesting twist on the classic story of puppets (and androids and computers) trying to become "real boys."
Spoiler-free review. I liked this book. I liked Jenna, and her very unique circumstances. As a lot of 17-year olds consider making big changes in their lives after high school, Jenna's story could have been pedestrian, but because of her unusual situation, we get to think a lot about what makes a person and how choices shape identity (and vice versa.) Jenna is a strong, interesting character, and it's a relief to have her story contain more than just who she'll choose for a boyfriend. Readers will never find themselves in Jenna's situation, but we can relate to her choices (and her parents' choices, too.) A good book for classroom discussions. Appropriate for readers 12 and up. (Younger students would understand the book, and there aren't any gratuitous violence or sex scenes, but I don't think the questions of identity will be as interesting to students under 12.)
This was another recommendation from , probably associated with my love of dystopian fiction. It's a YA book but the story is very deep and the questions it asks equally so. For the YA audience, I'd recommend a parent read it first so that a discussion can be attended to when the questions pop up.

Our story revolves around Jenna, a teenaged girl who wakes after a year long coma after a horrific accident. She awakes in a new town, new house and with parents and a grandmother who behave in ways she isn't quite comfortable with. Like many people with brain damage who awake, she is left having to learn a few things again and she feels disconnected from the life she lived before the accident.

She's aware that something in her has changed in fundamental ways. She processes things more analytically for a while, hears things and feels like her body isn't really her own. Still, she muddles through, begins school and tries to resume the life she almost lost.

And of course, since this is sci-fi, we find out there's a good reason she doesn't feel connected or quite herself. To tell you why would give away the entire book, though, so I won't do that.

This book is rather short, as others have commented on, and some of the fleshing out of characters suffers due to this. But in this case, I think it was the only way to have the important points stand out. Still, I would have liked to connect more with the ancillary characters like the grandmother and the parents more. And I think it would have been more fun to explore the medical conundrum and the morality of that kind of intervention, but the way it is written allows for more offline discussion of it. So that aspect is both a negative and a positive.

Overall, this is an appealing book for the thinking YA or adult reader. Very few mis-steps and a clean, fast moving story. Highly recommended for those who like a medical slant to their dystopian tales.
I adored the Adoration of Jenna Fox. The story was original, suspensful, and thrilling. It had many elements of family, friendship, and relationship that I identified with. It is a book that makes you thinl about right, wrong, and the shades of color in between the two.

Simply put, Mary E. Pearson made me think. She made me wonder who Jenna Fox was and who I ultimately am. I wondered what I would do if I had been in Jenna's shoes, her parents shoes, Lily's shoes, or Alyss' shoes.

The book was well written laced with traditonal and dystopian threads. That intertwining of past and future made it impossible for me to stop reading until I came to the conclusion of the book.