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Review: (Don't You) Forget About Me

(Don't You) Forget About Me (Don't You) Forget About Me by Kate Karyus Quinn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

“People will tell you that this is just the way things go around here when someone is taken with the madness. Sometimes that means losing the May Queen and her convertible too.”

Oooooohhh man, Kate Karyus Quinn hits us with another mind numbing tale. I’m really struggling to really put together my thoughts on this book. Quinn immediately became one of my favorite authors the second I finished her debut novel: Another Little Piece. So with that book in mind, (Don’t You) Forget About Me was exactly what I thought it was going to be. Very dark, mysterious, crazy and as I already mentioned, mind numbing. It’s one of those books that waits as long as it possibly can to relay information to you, so you’re kept wondering and in suspense about the past.

“Everyone falls eventually,” Piper told me. “You think it’ll hurt. But it’s falling with no bottom. You just keep going and going forever, just falling deeper and deeper. And once you stop being scared, it’s kind of fun.”

The book is about our main character Skylar, and her life in the bizarre town named Gardnerville. Throughout the book we get told the present and past of Skylar’s life through her dazed narration, and from cassette tapes recorded previously by either her or her sister Piper. We learn some good things, but mainly a bunch of terrible things about the town and people in it. I thought this was a cool and new interesting way of telling a story, though the suspense really did irk me sometimes, I always did find the answers eventually.

“My one small act of defiance is to fling the empty bottle at the back of Elton’s head. I miss and it bounces off Foote’s oversized skull instead.”

I also really did like our lovely Skylar’s personality, though a bit cowardice as she was.
Though I must say I didn’t enjoy it quite as much as Another Little Piece, it was still a good read. Also I remember someone saying that there was insta-love? I will now proclaim loudly that I do not agree with that statement! Since I read that before starting the book, I was keeping a lookout for insta-love, and I must day there was none. I’m looking forwards to reading whatever else Kate Karyus Quinn has in store for us!

P.S.: Some songs I think fit this book (that aren’t already in Quinn’s playlist) are If Only For a Night and Dog Days are Over, both by Florence + the Machine. The whole song of If Only For a Night,/i> is pretty relevant to this book, so go head and click right here so see those lyrics. I’ll go ahead and leave you with these excerpts from Dog Days. :)

Dog Days Are Over
Happiness hit her
like a train on a track
Coming towards her stuck still no turning back

Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father
Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your longing behind
You can't carry it with you if you want to survive

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