Jessica Brody is one of the new and upcoming authors in the Young Adult and Contemporary genres. I admire her versatility, as she has written both light-hearted and humorous books as well as more serious ones. Here is a little preview of some of her amazing work.

My Life Undecided

Brody’s superficial side surfaces in this hilarious read. Have you ever wished that someone else could make your decisions for you? 15-year-old Brooklyn Pierce sure does because in her opinion, the only choices that she makes are bad ones. Brooklyn has a history of making decisions that land her in sticky situations. Realizing that a change is needed in her choice-pattern, Brooklyn gets the idea of letting others make her choices for her. She creates a blog where she posts all the choices that she has to make with the situation, options, and outcomes for her viewers to have enough information to help her decide by voting in the poll. At first, barely a handful of people follow her blog, but her following grows as the decisions gain more gravity. This is Brooklyn’s ultimate decision, and it leads her down a crazy path of ups and downs. I’ll let you read the book to find out how it ends.

The Unremembered Trilogy

Unremembered (#1)

Brody’s more serious side emerges in this solemn series. It all starts with the survivor of a plane crash of Freedom Airlines Flight 121. Her name is Seraphina (Sera for short), and she is the only survivor. While this may be common, it is not common for the survivor to have no recollection of life before the accident. Sera has no memories of who she is, where she lives, or any family. It gets even weirder when the search in the fingerprint databases comes up empty. No record of Sera’s DNA exists. As in Sera shouldn’t exist. As perplexing as this is to most of the world, it is even more perplexing to Sera, who is struggling to fit in and figure out who to trust. Can she place her faith in the mysterious boy who won’t stop visiting her and pleading for her to escape with him?

Unforgotten (#2)

Things heat up in the sequel to Unremembered as secrets are unveiled and Sera discovers who she really is. She finds that she is a fugitive on the run from a corporation known as Diotech, run by scientists who wish to control much more than scientific fields. Her only comfort is Lyzender, the boy she loves, who will stop at nothing to keep her safe from the clutches of the cruel Diotech doctors, until she meets Kaelen, and begins to question everything. I can’t say too much more without completely spoiling the first and second books! If you like the first book, then don’t stop there! The second is even more suspenseful, as is the third.

Unchanged (#3)

The third installment of this trilogy is the most suspenseful. Instead of having her memories erased upon the most recent capture of Seraphina, Dr. A decides to use memory Reassociation, where he allows Sera to keep her memories, however they are modified so that she associates them with guilt whenever a memory pops up. This makes her feel treacherous, and at the same time eager to prove herself loyal to the objective. She believes Zen (Lyzender), the boy from her memories, to be dead and long gone, but she soon learns that she is mistaken. The climax is reached in the pages of this last story. No stone is left unturned as Seraphina discovers exactly who she is and how she came to be.