Book Review: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

The Adoration of Jenna Fox (Jenna Fox Chronicles #1) 
by Mary E. Pearson
Genre: Young Adult (Science Fiction/Dystopian)
Date Published: April 29, 2008
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.

Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers?

This fascinating novel represents a stunning new direction for acclaimed author Mary Pearson. Set in a near future America, it takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity. Mary Pearson's vividly drawn characters and masterful writing soar to a new level of sophistication.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox is the first book in the Jenna Fox Chronicles by Mary E. Pearson. This was a quick read for me as it pulled me right into its world from the start. It's told from Jenna's perspective, and told in such a way that I could really see it happening in our future. It took things that are happening today and gave them consequences tomorrow. I found it to be very believable. I completely understand how a technology like this would be just as scary as it is exciting. This story makes you think. Jenna was a great character. She's shy and meek in the beginning..just goes with the flow. As the book progresses she really comes out of her shell. I felt for Jenna as she figures out who she is again. I felt for her parents, because no one should have to lose a child. Every character was significant to the story. I would love to learn more about Dean. What's going in in that head of his? As a bonus, there were many messages hidden within these pages, and I thought they told some things that need to be said.

I won The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson through the Crazy Dream Blog.The opinions in this review are my own.

I look at my fingers again, the ones that trembled and shook just a few days ago at Mr. Bender's kitchen table. I bring them together, fingertip to fingertip, like a steeple. Each one perfect by appearance. But something is not . . . right. Something that I still have no word for. It is a dull twisting that snakes through me. Is this a tangled feeling that everyone my age feels? Or is it different? Am I different? I slide my steepled fingers, slowly, watching them interlace. Trying to interlace, like a clutched desperate prayer, but again, I feel like the hands I am lacing are not my own, like I have borrowed them from a twelve-fingered monster. And yet, when I count them, yes, there are ten. Ten exquisitely perfect, beautiful fingers. I look at my fingers again, the ones that trembled and shook just a few days ago at Mr. Bender's kitchen table. I bring them together, fingertip to fingertip, like a steeple. Each one perfect by appearance. But something is not . . . right. Something that I still have no word for. It is a dull twisting that snakes through me. Is this a tangled feeling that everyone my age feels? Or is it different? Am I different? I slide my steepled fingers, slowly, watching them interlace. Trying to interlace, like a clutched desperate prayer, but again, I feel like the hands I am lacing are not my own, like I have borrowed them from a twelve-fingered monster. And yet, when I count them, yes, there are ten. Ten exquisitely perfect, beautiful fingers.

Mary E. Pearson is the award-winning author of The Jenna Fox Chronicles, The Miles Between, A Room on Lorelei, and Scribbler of Dreams.  She writes full-time from her home office in California where she lives with her husband and two golden retrievers.

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