I really love how in this book you think someone is going to do something bad but it turns out they have a really smart plan to do something bad to the "bad guy"!

This book went in so many directions I think I have whiplash.

I read the first book sometime last year and thought it was only a duology, so I read this book too, thinking it would be over. Apparently there's a THIRD book, but I will definitely be stopping here. I'm content with where it wrapped up, even if it wasn't the ending I wanted.

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Although Unremembered was not my favorite book of 2013 it was good enough to make me want to read and pre-order the second book after all super humans and time travel sounds like an excellent premise, how naïve of me.

The story actually had a pretty good start; it begins one week after the events of the first book with Sera and Zen living as country famers in the year 1609 in England. Obviously going back a few centuries is difficult for anyone especially if the only life you know is living in a high tech lab and it’s even more if you were created there. This was actually my favorite part of the book very interesting and genuine it sets an excellent pace and you think you are going to read an excellent book but sadly Zen gets sick and the only cure is in the future so to save him.

Pros of the book:

-The part of the book that happens in 1609 it was by far my favorite and I wish it had been longer.

-Zen helping Sera fight her programming and not going all macho I will protect you no need to know how to defend yourself, so nice to see young men portrayed like that.

Cody: my favorite character of the series so far and I loved how he grew up to have a good and fulfilling adult life. Nice character growth

And now for the Cons:

-It dragged too much, there were parts I skipped pages and Sera was still in the same thread of thought. I would have made the book about 100 pages shorter.

-Kaelen: using a perfectly interesting new character as an element in a love triangle??? It wasn’t necessary for Kaelen to be Seraphina’s perfect match he could just have been a counterpart to her or a newer version or something else not her genetically programmed life partner just no. And what kind of name s is Kaelen?

-It was made perfectly clear in the first book that Seraphina is the most beautiful person ever, after all everyone that met her in the book said so, I got the point there was no need to keep people telling me how beautiful she is in the second book I get the message nobody compares all hail Seraphina’s beauty

As you can see I didn’t enjoy this book very much it was pretty forgettable and clearly suffers from second book syndrome but I am going to read the third book just to get closure and because the other books that I’ve read by Jessica Brody had good endings so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the series will have a good ending.

Final rating 1.5/5

Apparently if you can time travel and have people after you, you go to Shakespearean England to hide out. But! You can't stay there forever because witch burnings.

Anyway, this one's better than the first book. More sf, cool counterpart character, explanations that tie everything together. Still simplistic, but ended on a note where I'm legitimately wondering what could happen next.

2.5/5 stars

After initialing reading Unremembered I requested this from my local library. Unremembered had left my craving more from the story, in a good way (not a cliff hanger sort of way).
We open the story in what should be a state of serenity and a dream come true; Zen and Serephina have made it to 1609, and they can finally be together. Obviously things end up not going as planned, but I was surprised by the problems Sera and Zen were having even before Diotech and Zen's illness become present. Sera struggles to hide her abilities when doing farm work, and also had troubles adjusting to Medieval times.
We see very little of Sera and Zen's romantic relationship in Unforgotten. In the beginning there are implications of Zen wanting to "teach" Sear something that they haven't done before. However, the majority of the book Sera is on a mission to save Zen, so there really isn't much time for "learning".
The plot of this book brought in new aspects that I wasn't expecting; Sera is sent on a literal journey to uncover a secret in her mind that Diotech desperately needs. A secret that Sera desperately needs too.
There were other surprises along the way, but I felt like they challenged Sera's character in a nice way. Sera comes across as an immature character at a first glance because she is so unaware of some any things. Yet, if you pay close attention, you can watch her retain everything that happens around her. She responds to each challenge and interaction along the way in a new, mature way.
More secrets are uncovered in Unforgotten, but we never get all the answers. A third book is on the horizon, to continue (or perhaps end?) the saga of Seraphina: The Lab Created "Perfect Girl"

Conclusion:
I really appreciated the direction Brody took the story in. No clichés, no disappointments. Looking forward to an exciting third book.

WOW....I mean just WOW. This was a bit more fast paced and manipulative than the first. There were new enemies, new discoveries and everything coming to a head when Sera decides to risk everything.

Sera: She and Zen are on the run in the year 1609 and running away from the manipulative people who created her-Diotech. But soon her and Zen are targets and when Zen gets sick she will do anything to get him cured even if that means surrendering to Diotech. Her and Zen's relationship made love them even more and when Diotech made her do some things she wasn't proud of, it really proved that she would do anything for Zen and surrender to Diotech for her strong love for Zen.

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I found this series to be fascinating especially since I can definitely see the world heading in this direction especially if the Apocalypse has not yet happened (or the Revelation if you’re religious). There are a lot of concerns and topics that were addressed in these books that I found incredibly relevant. Particularly topics such as the gas/fuel outage, the rise of technology and human’s dependence on it, how the government and/or large corporations want to control the normal population, etc.

Sera, or Seraphina, the main girl in the series, was never really introduced as someone with no feelings or very robotic. Right from the start, she seemed like a normal human girl who just survived some sort of crash and was simply confused. So when Zen or someone else tried to tell her what she used to be like, it wasn’t something I could easily imagine. I mean, granted, the way how she talked and referred to things did seem a bit robotic but she quickly overcame that so I never really got the impression that she was manufactured. Even though she was easily controlled by her creators aka Dr. A, I still found her very strong to be able to hold on and remember Zen despite the many memory wipes. I would definitely consider her as a strong character. The only time I would consider her as weak would be in the second book when she basically cheated on Zen with Kaelen because she felt this “intense chemistry”. So much for true love, right?

Zen was a character I couldn’t really connect with. I’m not sure why I’m like eh to him but for some reason he seemed weak to me. This was especially true in the third book when Sera got taken away and he literally just broke down. And then he spent the next three years alternating between waiting for her and trying to get back. It was as if his whole life revolved around her and for me, that seemed weak and not that romantic.

Kaelen, the seemingly perfect guy and Print Mate for Sera, was and always will be a dick in my eyes. I don’t care how he was portrayed in the third book with all his perfect ways, his action in the second book will forever label him as asshole. Not to mention, in the third book, he had these intense temper rages which resulted in multiple dead people. How can Sera really love someone like that even though she was “designed” to love him? I mean, she clearly knew it was wrong yet she overlooked it the first time and again the second time. There was just so much going wrong for this guy – I don’t even really know where to begin.

Also, the ending was just so disappointing to me. I was hoping that Sera and Zen would end up together but it was like this weird twist in the plot. I mean, they did end up together but not in the way you would expect. At first, I was a little confused that I had to go back and reread the “epilogue” again. I mean, I guess it worked, just not in the way I was hoping. Also, the whole thing about Sera and Kaelen’s true origins made a lot of sense. There definitely had to be a reason for Sera to gain humanity despite being a manufactured creation.

Overall, I still highly recommend this novel. Shoutouts to Cody – especially in the first book when his adorable crush on Sera. It was still an overall enjoyable read so if you’re into sci-fi and romance, definitely check it out.

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3.5 almost 4. Enjoyed it even more than the first.