A review by madelinefmcguire
Restart, by Gordon Korman

5.0

Chase doesn’t remember falling off his roof and when he wakes up in the hospital he doesn’t remember his mother either, in fact he doesn’t remember anything. Sure he knows how to walk and talk but all the people in his life, and the things he’s done are all gone. He doesn’t remember who he was before, but everyone else does. Chase wasn’t a nice guy, he was a bully along with his best friends Adam and Bear who are convinced Chase is faking it to get out of the community service they must do as a result of their behavior. But Chase really doesn’t remember and that becomes all the more clear to his friends and the rest of the student body when he joins the film club befriending the very kids he used to bully. While Chase is trying to figure out who he is now everyone else is trying to figure out if this new Chase is here to stay or if the old Chase will come back when his memory returns.

This book was such a fun read, I loved getting the different perspectives because it gave such a full picture of Chase's life before. It's fun and wacky and all around wonderful.