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A review by luluwoohoo
Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick
☀️☀️☀️
A second chance romance with a twist that explores the necessary secret keeping of small town life.
This is the first amnesia story I've read and I think the setup was handled well enough. I thought it was an interesting decision to have Stevie not remember anything throughout the course of the book so that we got a rediscovery of her love in real time, but most of her recovery and developing feelings felt a bit too surface level to connect to.
The romance was sweet and I believed the chemistry between Stevie and Nora. I also really enjoyed the friendship Stevie found with Ryan, but her old friends came across as too bitchy and one-note to be worth the time invested in them. As for Stevie's relationship with her parents, their conflicts felt genuine and authentic right until the end scene which was much too neat and tidy for the story that was set up.
The writing itself is simple but effective. Derrick could have benefitted from another round of edits to fix repetitive dialogue tags like 'joked' which became grating by the end.
This was a fast paced book that could have been strengthened by more internal exploration from Stevie, but it did what it set out to do.
☀️☀️☀️
A second chance romance with a twist that explores the necessary secret keeping of small town life.
This is the first amnesia story I've read and I think the setup was handled well enough. I thought it was an interesting decision to have Stevie not remember anything throughout the course of the book so that we got a rediscovery of her love in real time, but most of her recovery and developing feelings felt a bit too surface level to connect to.
The romance was sweet and I believed the chemistry between Stevie and Nora. I also really enjoyed the friendship Stevie found with Ryan, but her old friends came across as too bitchy and one-note to be worth the time invested in them. As for Stevie's relationship with her parents, their conflicts felt genuine and authentic right until the end scene which was much too neat and tidy for the story that was set up.
The writing itself is simple but effective. Derrick could have benefitted from another round of edits to fix repetitive dialogue tags like 'joked' which became grating by the end.
This was a fast paced book that could have been strengthened by more internal exploration from Stevie, but it did what it set out to do.