Forget About It

Caprice Crane
5 Spot (2007)
ISBN 9780446697552
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (6/07)


Having totally enjoyed Caprice Crane’s first book, “Stupid and Contagious,” I was really looking forward to reading her latest, “Forget About It.”  I was not disappointed!  In this story, twenty-five year old Jordan Landau is not happy with her life.  She has a boyfriend who takes her for granted and cheats on her.  Her mother and sister have no respect for her, and her boss steals her ideas.  She is miserable because she keeps allowing this stuff to happen.  On a positive note, she does have two great best friends, Cat and Todd.  Todd has been in love with Jordan since they were married at age seven. 

One day, Jordan is involved in an accident with a man named Travis.  Jordan decides to use the accident and her minor head injury as a chance to claim amnesia.  As a person with amnesia, she reinvents herself and what she is willing to tolerate.  On an interesting note, she also experiences people lying to her about how she was prior to the accident.  She really learns a lot from this.  This also leads to some hysterical scenes for the reader. 

Jordan finds herself attracted to Travis.  She also discovers that she really doesn’t care for Dirk, her cheating boyfriend.  Todd complicates things by declaring his love for her.  During Jordan’s time of fake amnesia, she learns how strong that she can really be.  Her justified revenge on her abusers puts her in the driver’s seat of reclaiming her strength.  Unfortunately, she experiences another accident that teaches her what it is really like to experience amnesia.  She has to start all over again and figure out her is really telling her the truth about who she really is: her friends or her family.

I really, really enjoyed “Forget About It.”  Ms. Crane has a great talent for writing humor with depth.  I could really relate to Jordan and her desire to stop being a pushover.  I suspect that her actions fuel the fantasies of many women in getting even with people who are not honoring who they are.  In Jordan’s character, Ms. Crane writes, “…you can’t run from who you are, but you can certainly change who you are.  Every day you get the chance to decide who you want to be.”  I think that these wise words apply to us all.

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