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    All Is Not Forgotten

    Written by Wendy Walker

    Narrated by Dylan Baker

    3.5/5

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    How far would you go to protect your daughter?

    ‘Deeply intriguing and provocative,… ALL IS NOT FORGOTTEN is not to be missed’
    –KARIN SLAUGHTER

    Since the night she was attacked, Jenny Kramer hasn't been able to recall what happened. Her parents and the doctors saw to that. Her mother couldn’t prevent the terror in the woods, but she’s done all she can to stop it ruining Jenny’s life. The only thing that now bothers Jenny is the scar carved into her lower back. Which she can’t stop touching.

    But if Jenny can’t remember her attacker, he can’t be caught. He could be the man next to her right now, the one who caught just her eye.

    And he hasn’t forgotten anything…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateJul 14, 2016
    ISBN9780008191252
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    All Is Not Forgotten
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    Wendy Walker

    Wendy Walker is the author of the psychological suspense novels All Is Not Forgotten, Emma in the Night, The Night Before, Don’t Look for Me, American Girl, and What Remains. Her novels have been translated into twenty-three foreign languages, topped bestseller lists both nationally and abroad, and have been optioned for television and film. Wendy holds degrees from Brown University and Georgetown Law School. She has worked as a family law attorney, investment banker, and spent several years training for competitive figure skating.

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    • 4/5
      Jenny Kramer is an innocent, likeable carefree young girl until the night that innocence is savagely ripped away when she is viciously, brutally raped at a party. Her mother believes that having a controversial drug treatment to erase all memory of the rape will help her get over it. Her Father reluctantly agrees but in his heart he feels it isn't the right thing to do. Too late they realize this treatment didn't really help Jenny and will only make it more difficult to bring the rapist to justice. A psychiatrist is brought in to help Jenny deal with her emotional turmoil and to help her recover her memory, but he has a secret agenda of his own.
      This was a very suspenseful psychological thriller with twists and turns that I never saw coming,

      I received an advance copy for review
    • 4/5
      4.5 stars

      All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker is a gripping mystery that has an unusual premise and a unique narrator.

      Fifteen year old Jenny Kramer is brutally raped and in an effort to spare her the psychological trauma of the attack, her parents make an unorthodox decision to erase her memories of the assault. The controversial treatment blocks the memory of the act but as Jenny and her family soon discover, the accompanying emotions are still keenly felt. Without a tangible event to attach these feelings to, Jenny suffers from residual fear and anxiety. After a desperate attempt to end her torment, Jenny's family turns to Dr. Alan Forrester, a local psychiatrist who is also treating another patient that was given the same drugs as Jenny. Due to Dr. Forrester's limited success in helping war veteran Sean Logan retrieve his memories of the attack that left him an amputee and took the life of a fellow soldier, the Kramer family is hopeful that he can help Jenny remember the details of the rape and possibly identify her attacker. At the same time, the police are finally making progress on the case but outside interference soon hinders the investigation.

      Written from the point of view of a very surprising narrator, All Is Not Forgotten unfolds at a steady pace. The narrator is unemotional and distant as the details of Jenny's attack and the months leading up to her therapy are slowly revealed. While this technique is a little off-putting initially, it does not take long to get used to this somewhat unusual form of narration. The flow of the story is sometimes interrupted as the narrator reveals tantalizing bits of information then backtracks to explain how these details were discovered. While it appears the storyteller is an impartial observer, the narrator's careful parceling of information keeps readers off balance and wondering whether or not this person's account of events is truly unbiased.

      With a cast of flawed characters, jaw-dropping revelations and shocking plot twists, All Is Not Forgotten is an intricately plotted, suspenseful mystery that is impossible to put down. Wendy Walker makes an unusual choice for a narrator but this atypical narration is what makes this novel stand out in the mystery/suspense genre. A thought-provoking, riveting novel that I highly recommend to readers who enjoy a twisty, turny psychologically complex mystery.
    • 3/5
      Fifteen year old Jenny Kramer attends a highschool party. When she sees her boyfriend with another girl, she heads off alone into the nearby woods. She is brutally assaulted and raped a few hundred feet from the party. Her parents, specifically her mother, consent to a medical treatment that will wipe out her memories of the event. The premise is that she will be able to move on easier. The only problem is that she doesn't remember the event, but she knows she was raped. Her body can still remember the incident. This causes serious problems and she eventually tried to commit suicide. At this point, her parents agree to memory recall therapy with Dr. Alan Forrester. Will this help Jenny? Will her rapist ever be caught?

      Dr. Forrester is the unreliable narrator of this story. As we begin to uncover the secrets of the family in their sessions with the doctor, Jenny also begins to remember. As she remembers, it might put someone in the town in the police's cross-hairs. What will Dr. Forrester do to help her recall those memories and make sure she does not form false ones. The characters in this book are all pretty much unlikable except maybe Jenny. It seems everyone is out for themselves and how this situation makes them feel or impact their lives. This is a good, not great, thriller. I definitely didn't see the twists and turns coming at the end. I might have enjoyed it more if I had empathy for the characters in the story. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley.
    • 4/5
      This was an interesting story about providing a drug to a young girl who was raped, hoping to erase her memory of the event, and the psychiatrist helping her to recover that memory. It is tensely written and very psychological. The entire family has many secrets and demons from which they are trying to recover.
    • 5/5
      All is Not Forgotten is an intriguing and intelligent psychological thriller. It is about a 15-year-old girl who is brutally attacked and raped at a party. Her parents agree to a controversial treatment that erases the gruesome and horrible memory. Though the treatment is successful, the terror remains… Walker has impeccable, brilliant writing and memorable characters. I look forward to more books by this amazing writer. Also, a movie is in the works. Let’s hope it’s as enjoyable as the book!
    • 2/5
      I read a lot of real crime books as well as really gritty non-fiction books so I know it wasn't the violent rape that earned this book a 2 star rating. Actually that was the most interesting part of the entire book. The parents were so divided on the "treatment" that their young daughter received...a drug that would make her forget that the rape ever happened. Then most of the remainder of the book was an account by the psychiatrist that went on and on. I lost any interest in the book before the half way mark.
    • 4/5
      A young girl is raped and beaten. At the hospital they gave her a drug to forget the event. The mother says yes and the father wants her to remember who raped her. All three wind up in therapy and the story revolves around how the family has secrets, breaks down and is rebuilt. The clincher is how much does the phsychiatrist have to do with the "cure". I wasnt crazy with the way it began but the tension built.
    • 4/5
      Jenny Kramer is brutally raped in the woods outside of a house party. In the hours immediately after, her parents are given a choice to allow the doctors to give Jenny a drug that will immediately erase her memory of the assault. Her father does not want her to be given the drug, he wants Jenny to remember her attacker so he can be punished, but her mother absolutely wants it so her daughter can be "fixed" and they can all move on like it never happened. But in the months that follow, Jenny has emotions about what happened but no memories to attach them to. Her father becomes obsessed with catching the attacker. No one wants to believe it could be someone in their close-knit community. And things begin to unravel for all involved.

      My thoughts are all over the place. This book is told by a narrator, which I was not expecting and sometimes did not like. I thought it was going to be Jenny's story, but it seems the narrator told their own story. We learn who the narrator is several chapters in, and we learn this person is egotistical and manipulative. But the whole book was cleverly woven together. The writing was great although I found it got bogged down at times with technical terms. It's a book that makes you think.
    • 4/5
      I'm ready for the "Gone Girl" type domestic thriller avalanche to be GONE, BABY, GONE. This one has a "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" type of drug to block bad memories, a horrendous rape, several suspects, and a creepy narrator-therapist. It cycles though many suspects and has a twist or two but in the end I just didn't care. As a note (and a clue), the author says in the afterword "I begin my acknowledgements with my agent...for knowing what I should write and for her patience while I got my head around a new genre." Talk about formulaic!
    • 4/5
      "All Is Not Forgotten" is an interesting mystery. Teenager Jenny Kramer is brutally attacked when she steps away from a house party. A few hours later, she is given a drug to erase her memories of the attack. Her physical wounds heal and she has no memory of the incident, but she still has emotional memories, which she can't make sense of because of the lack of memory. As Jenny undergoes therapy to figure out how to deal with her situation, her father Tom becomes obsessed with finding the perpetrator of the attack, and her mother Charlotte becomes obsessed with forgetting the attack ever happened. As the entire family undergoes therapy independently, secrets are revealed, and various lives in the small town of Fairview, Connecticut become inextricably intertwined, until the book comes to its unexpected conclusion.I can't say much about this book without spoiling it. Suffice it to say that the book is more than just a crime mystery. It delves into the souls of the main characters - Jenny, Tom, and Charlotte - and becomes a book about the vagaries of what makes people tick, what drives them to do what they do - or NOT do what they don't do.I found the book intriguing, entertaining, and thought-provoking, a mystery deftly woven with solid character development and good pacing.
    • 4/5
      If I could have given this a 4.5 star rating I would have. It was soo close to being a 5 star, it truly was! The suspense and writing style had me hooked at the very get go and I powered through determined to find out the ending. A teenage girl is brutally raped and as a result of drinking and repressive therapy she remembers none of the attack. She knows she was assaulted but she can't remember any specific details which everyone seems to think will help her out in the long term. Unfortunately, it has the opposite affect and she just wishes she could remember it so her brain would stop trying so hard to put the pieces together. Told through the perspective of her therapist, this harrowing story is his piecing together what happened to her and his dark role in uncovering and possibly altering the truth. Wonderful. Loved it, wished their was more to the ending. It came to fast, I needed more!!!
    • 5/5
      Very good book. Complicated and so interesting especially for people who work in mental health
    • 4/5
      “All Is Not Forgotten” is a psychological thriller. Written by Wendy Walker, the novel weaves together the lives of several people surrounding a family who’s teenage daughter is brutally attacked. Fifteen-year-old Jenny Kramer was raped and carved during a high school party. After allowing her to be given a controversial drug that is supposed to erase her memory, Jenny’s mother believes that her daughter will be able to go back to “normal” since she won’t need to relive the painful memories. However, Jenny’s story takes a turn and without being able to remember what happened to her, she is unable to process her emotions.One of the most interesting aspects of this book is the perspective. In the first few chapters, you’re kept guessing who the narrator is as he describes the situation and explicates his own involvement with the Kramer family. At first, I was thinking it would be one of her parents or good friend, but the choice of a psychiatrist was a terrific way to thread together the various storylines from each member of the family as well as claim a somewhat unbiased account of events.The novel explores how our brains work, how memories are made and stored, as well as our emotional reactions to the things around us. Erasing a memory doesn’t mean it’s gone, and not remembering doesn’t take away the pain. Because memories and emotions are so volatile, it made the puzzle of Jenny’s memory unsettling – both to try to relive and disconcerting to think someone could just choose to take them away or alter them.Wendy Walker did a great job of telling a compelling story, complete with a twisted mystery that makes the ending that much more unexpected. The individual characters felt a bit under-developed as I really wanted to get to know Jenny, Tom, and Sean more, but due to the perspective of the story it was realistic and made sense to have so many intimate details without necessarily grasping the full picture.As intriguing as the mystery behind Jenny’s attack was to keep this story moving, the most fascinating aspect was examining the concept of memories and seeing how the various characters react to situations without thinking about how their individual actions will affect not only them but the path of everyone involved. As Wendy Walker aptly writes, “With youth comes the inability to know what’s going to happen as a decision is played out. It is one of the greatest shames of the human experience that by the time we know how to conduct ourselves in an appropriate manner, there’s little conducting left to do.” (Page 29)
    • 3/5
      Narrative fiction, our unreliable narrator a psychiatrist, a vicious rape of a young girl at a party, a drug given that backfires, a drug to remove the memory of the act. Yet, though the mind may forget the details, the body remembers, but now the remembering doesn't connect to the act. So enters our narrator.If I was to award stars based solely on the writing, I would have given it five stars. But I found the characters unlikable, with the exception of the victim and her father. Though if it was mentioned one more time on how much he cried, I think I would have screamed. All the other drama going on I felt took away from the victim, the seriousness of what was done to her, how hard it was to carry on a normal life. Found that frustrating. The ending was to graphic for me and yes I am a wimpy reader, but after the long, slow process of the unveiling, I felt as if I was socked in the gut.So a five for the writing, but the rest of the story I found lacking. Unpopular though this review will be to those who loved this book. ARC from netgalley.
    • 4/5
      Sometimes not having the memories isn't enough to stop the past from haunting you. Jenny Kramer was brutally attacked but given a treatment to make her forget, Sean a young soldier was given a similar protocol when he was wounded in Iraq. Both are struggling with the disconnection of what happened and their bodies still having a instinctual memory to the events. The narrator is the psychologist who helps them to try to find their way back to themselves.Overall I would say this is a good read, with a great mystery and a very interesting and ethically interesting premise. Is it right to erase the memories of these people in the hopes that it will help them cope better? What happens in cases that need to go to trial? How can you have a reliable witness when they can't remember? Does erasing the memories really make the pain go away? Or does it just raise questions about how it came to be in the first place.Definitely an interesting concept and a good mystery.
    • 4/5
      After being brutally raped, Jenny Kramer is given a treatment designed to make her forget the incident. With no real recall of the attack, Jenny struggles to come to terms with the emotional aspects and attempts suicide. She ends up working with a psychologist, Alan Forrester, a doctor with prior experience dealing with memory recovery.I have mixed thoughts about this book. It was a well crafted story. However, while the clinical aspect of the story was interesting, everything came across as detached. It could have been a much more powerful story if it had been told from multiple points of view. I also detested the foreshadowing that happened throughout. It took away from the suspense and story line and made what could have been a great book into a mediocre one.
    • 5/5
      Teenager Jenny Kramer is attacked and raped at a party one evening in her beautiful community. Shortly after the rape she is given a drug that “erases” her memories of that awful experience. However, something did not work as it should have, and Jenny attempts suicide. Fortunately, her mother was there and saves her. She subsequently starts seeing a psychiatrist for treatment. However, Jenny’s rape triggers all sorts of repercussions in her home and town, as secrets begin to spill out everywhere, including those of her therapist. Told from the perspective of the therapist, this is a fascinating look at crime, victims and secrets. The jacket indicates the movie rights for this book have been purchased, so I can’t wait to see that version as well.
    • 4/5
      This book grabbed me from the beginning and held me to the end. Sounds so cliché but in this case so true.The voice if you will of this story is narrator Dr. Alan Forrester, a psychiatrist who works in Fairview where this story is set. We learn that in addition to treating Jenny Kramer, who is brutally raped, he is also treating other characters in this psychological thriller that had me taking moments to compose myself before I could continue. That is the mark of a GREAT read.An important issue, and I would suggest is more what this book is about than anything else, is raised in this story when doctors want to give Jenny a drug that can erase your memory of traumatic events. This alone will leave to lots of discussion in book clubs because of the implications of taking such a drug.Jenny’s parents Tom and Charlotte Kramer as you might expect, do not deal with this terrible thing that happens to their daughter and in trying to figure out the best way to help her by working with Dr. Forrester, he uncovers secrets and lies they both have that make this book the pager turner it is.There is much more to the story, other characters, the mystery of who raped Jenny, twists and turns I didn’t see coming and surprises. I found it startling at times, but the one constant was that I could not stop reading, even when it was hard to read, as this can be a dark story for some.Very character driven, Wendy Walker has written a story that not only will be talked about for some time; you may see it on the big screen as the movie rights have been purchased even though this book doesn’t come out until later in the year. Ms. Walker has written about a tough topic in a unique way that while slow in places, due to her due diligence with the medical terminology it wasn’t enough to keep me from finishing the book.I found this to be a riveting, character-driven, attention-grabbing read that didn’t let up until the end.
    • 3/5
      I was really looking forward to checking this book out. From the summary, it sounded like it would be a very dark and psychological thriller. I was ready. What I did not expect was all of the talk about sex as well as the acts of sex. I can handle sex but I just thought that it was a little too overboard with the sex. Although, I did see why the author put it in there as it was part of the story.What happened to Jenny was horrific. As she was reliving that moment, I felt a strong connect with her. It felt so real that I wanted to forget the terrible event. I am glad that Jenny had two people fighting for her...her father and her psychiatrist, Dr. Alan Forrester. In fact, I liked Dr. Forrester's voice as the narrator helping to tell the story as well as sharing his feelings as a father. He was relating to Tom and what he would do in his shoes. All is Not Forgotten is an raw read that will strip you down to your emotions!
    • 5/5
      After 16-year-old Jenny Kramer was viciously raped, her parents allowed doctors to administer a drug that erased (most of) Jenny's memory of the prolonged, brutal attack. Her mother, Charlotte, was hoping this would be the easiest way for everybody to get over the event and return to their normal, idyllic life. But there are ripple effects throughout the small affluent community, and although memories may have been eradicated, feelings - of course - remain and Jenny as well as her father, Tom, who becomes obsessed with finding the perpetrator, and Charlotte, who has her own secrets and demons, end up attending therapy sessions with a local psychiatrist, Dr. Alan Forrester.The style of narration was unique, as the narrator wasn't actually properly identified until several chapters into the book and continues to address the reader directly at times. It took me a little bit to get used to it and to really get into the story. But then I loved it. It moved along at quite a slow pace but was filled with immensely interesting information, observations, and characters who all had a significant role to play and were all incredibly well-drawn. This was quite a complex novel of psychological suspense, and I was really impressed how all the strands came together flawlessly in the end.There was a fair bit of information relating to neuroscience and psychology, which was woven masterfully into the story, from the exploration of trauma to memory processes, including the manipulation of the brain to create false memories, to the effects of childhood and parenting on our adult selves. If you enjoy these sort of topics you'll love this. If not, your eyes may glaze over at times.All is not forgotten is an elaborately plotted and immensely clever novel with some totally unexpected revelations. Tense and emotional and certainly one that will stay with you after you have finished it. Highly recommended!Thanks to St Martins Press for my ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
    • 5/5
      This is a hard book to read, mainly because of the subject matter. That being said, the story was completely engrossing. I could not stop reading. And when I did have to stop, because life does tend to get in the way, the story stayed with me. Jenny, Adam, Charlotte and Tom all suffer in different ways and create a gripping story which I will not soon forget. The writing is very unusual and unique. There are areas the story jumps ahead and then backs up to meld the whole tale together. This novel is told by a narrator which is the psychiatrist. He seems a little detached, especially when he is describing Jenny's attack. This helps the reader get through the emotional aspects of this harrowing scene. However, it is still a very tragic and haunting experience. And the perpetrator is a guess till the very end! This tale is not for every one. It is not a happy read and has some grisly activity. It is however, a read which will stay with me for a very long time! I received this novel from Netgalley for a honest review
    • 4/5
      Teenage Jenny is brutally raped in the woods one night while attending a party. In an effort to shield her from the horrific memories, her parents agree to the use of a controversial drug that will erase the night’s events from her memory. A year later Jenny is struggling to feel “normal”. But the attack lives on in her body and in her soul. She knows she was raped and struggles with the damage done to her soul. She wants to know what happened. At this point her parents begin taking her to a psychiatrist in an attempt to regain her memory of that night. This psychiatrist, Dr. Alan Forrester, is the narrator of the book. He also begins treatment with Jenny’s parents, Tom and Charlotte, individually. Charlotte has a lot of guilt over an ongoing affair she has been having. Tom is obsessed with finding the rapist. The pursuing investigation uncovers the presence at the party of a known drug dealer and the sighting of a boy wearing a blue sweatshirt with a red bird on it going into the woods about the time Jenny was there. Dr. Forrester’s son was at the party and owns a sweatshirt matching the description given. Forrester is now in a delicate position. He fears for his son and knows he must protect him. He knows he should remove himself from treating Jenny as it is a conflict of interest. However, he has begun to make progress with her and his ego gets in the way.Forrester is also treating Sean, an Iraq war veteran, who is suffering from PTSD. Sean desperately wants to remember what happened in Iraq when he and his buddy are attacked and only Sean survives. Sean and Jenny attend the same support group and become confidants. The book is well written but I did have an issue with the doctor as the narrator. I was not able to really connect with any of the characters even though the descriptions were amazing, especially the description of Tom and Charlotte at the hospital the night of the attack. I felt a somewhat clinical detachment from the characters.With the various storylines – Charlotte’s affair, Sean’s unstable marriage, Tom’s boss and his interaction with the family, the drug dealer, Forrester’s son – a lot is thrown at you. I felt like some of it was too contrived, too many “red herrings”. I thought the author did an excellent job of explaining the controversy regarding recovered memories and they can be manipulated. The book is definitely suspenseful – a real page-turner. Thank you to GoodReads for the advance copy in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      Skillfully plotted and compulsively readable, but something just wasn't there for me. The characters were thoroughly developed and the plot original and compelling, but I didn't appreciate the lengths to which the author went to manipulate the reader through her narrator — not in the sense that I was upset at being duped (I certainly didn't expect the ending and love when that happens), but rather because I felt the way in which the manipulation played out was unnecessarily deceptive. It felt, to me, like the narrator (the psychiatrist) held things back from the other characters and from the reader in an unrealistic manner and that he became, certainly, a parody of his profession.That said, I read ALL IS NOT FORGOTTEN in one sitting — and that's certainly an achievement on Wendy Walker's part. I don't think this has quite the commercial appeal or "it" factor of GONE GIRL or GIRL ON THE TRAIN, but I do think it's timely and relevant (as its central plot concerns rape), and that it deals with that relevance with deft understanding and compassionate honesty.DISCLAIMER: I received an ARC of this book from the publisher.
    • 5/5
      I read this pretty much in one sitting. I went to Starbucks, ordered an Iced Venti Chai Latte, sat down, and read 95% of it. Then I came home and quickly finished the remainder. I found the choice of narrator compelling and liked the detached-but-not-really way it was told. Parts of it read like nonfiction, which I've had a bit of a craving for as far as my reading appetites lately. Reading this reminded me of how I also devoured Gone Girl in one day (mostly while by the pool). Do I think "it's the next Gone Girl or Girl On the Train?" No. But I do think Gone Girl readers will enjoy this one (perhaps more so than GOTT readers because GG and GOTT are very different books, IMO). In fact, I think it will appeal even more to fans of The Kind Worth Killing and plan on telling all of my coworkers about it.
    • 4/5
      Normally when I read a book and am not engaged by page 50, I quit reading. I was not enjoying this book - I didn't like the way the story was told by the unnamed narrator. I am REALLY glad that I gave this book a few more pages because once I found out who the narrator really was, things all started to fall into place. This was the intriguing story about trying to erase people's memories so that they don't remember a traumatic event - in this case it was Jenny who had been brutally raped. Her mother wanted the drugs used on her so that she would forget the rape and go on with her life. Her father wasn't convinced that they should do this but he deferred to his wife. So the drug is administered and Jenny loses her memory of the rape but even though the memory is erased, the feeling caused by the rape are never totally gone. This is Jenny's store but so much more. I thought that this book was a real page turner and once I got into it, I couldn't put it downNOTE (There are some brutal rape scenes in this book)NOTE (This book was provided by BookBrowse for an impartial review)