Mary E. Pearson

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 a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Mary Pearson

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

The adoration of Jenna Fox

Tameka Young

This book was really unexpected. I had no idea what the story was about before reading and was really impressed with how the author handled such intense subject matter. Smart, thought provoking, and lyrical all at the same time. This would make a great book club discussion!

In the not-so-distant future, when synthetic bodies and brains are possible but illegal, Jenna Fox, who is recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

Sarah Escorsa

I picked up this book after seeing it mentioned in a review for The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. The reviewer thought The Adoration of Jenna Fox was a much better read and since I enjoyed Mara Dyer a lot I thought I'd give Jenna Fox a try. Big mistake!

I did like the idea behind the book but the writing simply spoilt it all for me. It lacks fluidity and I couldn't stand the short sentence structure. This could have been a great story but it is so poorly executed that it makes for quite an unreadable book. Added to the fact that none of the characters are likeable (they're much too cold and I just didn't have any sympathy for them), it's a miracle I actually managed to finish the book!

Ana Cob

Alexa Jade

I’m not mad I read this. I don’t feel like I wasted my time. But I also didn’t get much from it and I’m not continuing on with the series. So. There’s that.

Samiha Tasnim

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me. More than the facts and statistics they fill me with.


I lift the corner of my mouth.
Then the other: a smile. Because I know I am supposed to.


Where did those words go, those words that were once in my
head?


Eyes don't breathe. I know that much.
But hers look breathless.


Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that
makes the difference?


Maybe that is all any life is composed of, trivia that eventually adds up to a person, and maybe I just don't have enough of it yet to be a whole one.


The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.


I'm afraid that for the rest of my two or two hundred years I will still have all these questions and I will never fit in.

A 17-year-old girl wakes from a year-long coma and is told her name is Jenna Fox. She doesn't remember the accident; she doesn't remember her life; she doesn't remember herself. Her parents show her home movies of her past, but is she really the same girl she sees on the screen?

It started out really interesting and I was dying to find out why Jenna was different. But by the time I did find out, it was no longer a surprise and then it all got a bit too philosophical for me. This is a dystopian book, but I like my dystopians a bit more science-fiction-y than this book was, although The Adoration of Jenna Fox wasn't bad by any means.
After the way the story ended, I'm kind of curious to see how the author has managed to turn this into a series though.

ashley hopkins

This review has been kind of sitting here waiting for me to write it, and I'm not sure what exactly to say about it without giving away some of the story's main twists and things. I will say this it had a few good twists, and wow moments. It did take me quite awhile to actually finish it. I think the main reason for that is I'm not much of a sci-fi, dystopian reader. Just like the few before this one that I've read namely The Hunger Games I just can't get into them. Still I keep trying hoping one book will change my mind. This is not to say I won't still read them. Once I start a series I like to finish it.



I liked Jenna as a character and I really felt bad for her waking up after a year in a coma, and not knowing anything about yourself. All she had to go on was what her parents told her and the videos of the "old Jenna Fox" that she watched. How would you feel if you just woke up and nothing seemed real? You don't know your parents, your grandmother, who your old friends were, nothing...not a thing. Not only that, but you weren't allowed outside your own home for reasons unknown to you. Pretty scarey huh? Then throughout the book she slowly learns and figures things out about herself. Where she use to live, why they moved, who her friends were. During the book she makes some new friends when her parents decide that it might be ok to let her go to school. This school isn't an ordinary school though. The kids there all have their own problems. She becomes close with a few like Allys and Ethan. 

You know from reading that something is different about Jenna, but you don't actually learn what that is until later on. I'm sitting here looking at the cover, and now I get the puzzled cover too. I understand the coloring behind it. Sorry it's like it just clicked.

 
What to say about Ethan. Hum? I wasn't moved by him either way really. You know how there are some potential crushes in books that you get attached to. Well I didn't really feel that way about him or I think Dane maybe. Which ever I didn't care for either. There were a few lines, and "moments" in the book that I thought how cute (like when the were gardening with each other...flicking dirt on each other.) other then that nothing.
Then there's Allys to me she seemed kind of snobby and better then everyone else. I know..I know I should have felt bad for her or something because of what happened to her, but I couldn't she wanted to blame everyone else. Maybe it was or wasn't their fault who knows I just didn't like her. I would have much rather learned more about Kara and Locke, Jenna's old friends.

I did like the way the book wasn't actually written in chapters but kind of like time periods. When there was a chapter break it had instead poem like writing, or Jenna's thoughts that tied in with what was going to happen next. I don't how to explain it, but it was different.

I'll definitely read the next book just because of the way it ended.

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Anastaciya

Keeping it at solid 3 stars. Do like the questions the author poses in the book, it definitely gives you something to think about. I don't know why I can't rate it higher, probably I'm just not attached to the characters... The topic itself is interesting, but I don't connect.

Milana Marie Waller

I was really looking forward to this book. It sounds so good but it was really a let down. I was written really weirdly and the actual story was strange. I think a different author could have done something different with this idea which may have turned out better.

Mary E Pearson

'Why can I remember the details of the French Revolution but I can't remember if I ever had a best friend?' When Jenna wakes following her accident, her recovery is slow. One day she can't walk; the next she can. One day her right eyelid droops; the next it doesn't. But at what cost has her recovery come? What are her parents hiding from her? And why does her grandmother, Lily, hate her so? When the memories do come, they're more than anyone bargained for, and as Jenna struggles to work out who she is, and what exactly makes us who we are, one thing becomes very clear: Jenna Fox is no ordinary teenage girl. Who is Jenna Fox? 'I read this book in less than one day - it's a real page-turner! I found Jenna's story compelling, and every character is unique down to the last detail...Nine and a half out of ten.' Lucienne, 18

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