The Adoration of Jenna Fox

''There is something curious about where we live. Something curious about Lily. Something curious about Father and his nightly phone calls with Mother. And certainly something curious about me. Why can I remember the details of the French Revolution but I can't remember if I ever had a best friend?''

Jenna Fox has just woken up from a coma, and she can't remember anything about herself or her life. She only knows her name is Jenna Fox because her parents tell her this. Her parents give her a collection of home movies for her to watch in the hope that it will help her to regain her memories.

And eventually they do, in bits and pieces. Jenna, however, still doesn't feel like she's the same Jenna Fox she sees in the home movies. Additionally, she keeps on noticing strange things about her and her family. Like how her grandmother doesn't seem to want to even look at her, or how no friends have sent her get-well cards, or how her fingers don't interlace quite right. She suspects that there's something her parents are hiding from her, but what is it? And how will Jenna cope when she finally uncovers it?

WARNING: The trope list below contains MAJOR spoilers. Even reading the name of certain tropes is highly spoilerrific. If at all possible, read the book at least halfway through before proceeding. (It's worth it, trust me.)

This work contains the following tropes:

 * Artificial Human:
 * Artificial Limbs: Allys has four of them, due to losing her arms and legs to a bacterial infection.
 * Brain Uploading:
 * Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: The book cover shows a blue-black butterfly landing on Jenna's hand, and.
 * Can't Get Away With Nuthin': The one time, it ends with.
 * Deadpan Snarker: Allys. Jenna shows flashes of this too.
 * The Dutiful Daughter: Jenna did her best to be the "miracle child" for her parents.
 * Emotionless Girl: Jenna, initially.
 * Glamour Failure: Dane tells Jenna that she "walks funny", which makes Jenna realize that she moves differently from the graceful Jenna she sees in the recordings.
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia
 * Mayfly-December Romance:
 * Mood Whiplash: Jenna is ecstatic when she suddenly remembers three weeks of her life and how much she loved hot chocolate, and she rushes to the kitchen to make some hot chocolate to drink. But when she begins drinking it, her mother yells out a horrified "NO!"
 * Tropes related to The Reveal that merit serious spoilering-out:
 * Scale of Scientific Sins: Specifically . The book, however, brings into question just how much of a sin it is when, and most readers will be inclined to agree that at the very least, it was understandable why they did what they did.
 * The Sociopath: This might be what Dane is. Maybe. It's never specified.
 * Title Drop: Jenna describes the way all attention seems to revolve around the Jenna in the home movies as "the adoration of Jenna Fox."
 * Trigger Phrase: Whenever Claire tells Jenna to go to her room, she does. Jenna also reacts badly to any mention of her accident.
 * Troubled but Cute: Ethan.
 * Twenty Minutes Into the Future: No explicit year or date is given, but events like the election of the second female US president, the near-uselessness of vaccines thanks to bacterial infections becoming super-resistant and lethal to them, and natural disasters that sunk part of California are mentioned.
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?:
 * Trigger Phrase: Whenever Claire tells Jenna to go to her room, she does. Jenna also reacts badly to any mention of her accident.
 * Troubled but Cute: Ethan.
 * Twenty Minutes Into the Future: No explicit year or date is given, but events like the election of the second female US president, the near-uselessness of vaccines thanks to bacterial infections becoming super-resistant and lethal to them, and natural disasters that sunk part of California are mentioned.
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?: