NOGGIN, by John Corey Whaley

From Goodreads:

Listen — Travis Coates was alive once and then he wasn’t.

Now he’s alive again.

Simple as that.

The in between part is still a little fuzzy, but he can tell you that, at some point or another, his head got chopped off and shoved into a freezer in Denver, Colorado. Five years later, it was reattached to some other guy’s body, and well, here he is. Despite all logic, he’s still 16 and everything and everyone around him has changed. That includes his bedroom, his parents, his best friend, and his girlfriend. Or maybe she’s not his girlfriend anymore? That’s a bit fuzzy too.

Looks like if the new Travis and the old Travis are ever going to find a way to exist together, then there are going to be a few more scars.

Oh well, you only live twice

Amy gives this book 4 and half stars.

I really  enjoyed the book and finished it in two days.  (It took longer to update my Goodreads account, sorry!)

The only reason this book doesn’t get five stars is because I really found it hard to believe that this boy wouldn’t foresee some problems getting back together with his girlfriend—who has been living for five years without him and is engaged and will forever be five years older than him now.  Yes, they were in love, and yes, he feels like it was yesterday, but it was like he wasn’t prepared at all for her shock.  He seemed too smart for that.  I also understand he thought if he ever came back, it’d be like 70 years later, and this was just too close and too far all at once.  Brilliant premise.  I’m just saying I found his insistence that she’d just immediately fall back in love with him was not very believable to me.

You can get a great sense of his voice through the blurb—snappy, funny, fast and brutally honest. Two thumbs up.