Review of Don't Forget Me

Title: Don't Forget Me 

Author: Victoria Stevens 

Pages: 360

Genre: teen 

Rating: 4 stars 

In Don't Forget Me by Victoria Stevens Hazel Clarke finds herself moving half way around the world from England to Australia to live with a father she's never met. The whole time she can't get her mother off her mind.  She's determined that it is only going to be temporarily just until she turns 18. She didn't count on meeting Red and his twin Luca.  Now she's not so sure what she wants to do. 

Don't Forget Me is a teen novel that deals with the typical teen issues as well dealing with family problems and the issue of early onset Alzheimer's. Which seems to me that, that is something that most teens don't have to deal with. Though the novel deals with a tough subject Victoria Stevens handles it well with the seriousness it deserves with just enough humor to remind readers that it is alright to still find the joy in life. That even when you’re going through a hard time life is still worth living.  

     While Don't Forget Me is a novel dealing with tough issues on the whole it is a novel about family and friendship and living life to the fullest. One of the important lessons I got from this book is that even though you move on and life goes on you don't have to forget the people that where important.  As well as the question of what's worse losing someone to death or losing someone because they can't remember who you are? The thing is neither one is any worse than the other. There's no way to balance that one out. They are both horrible in their own way and there's no comparing the two. 

I would recommend this book to older teens and up. There are somethings in the the novel that might not be suitable for everyone.