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A review by pagesplotsandpints
Do I Know You? by Sarah Strohmeyer
1.75
<b>Read Completed 9/24/24 |</b> 1.75 stars
DO I KNOW YOU was kind of a hot mess.
Jane is a “super recognizer” where she remembers faces easily, in more detail than everyone else, and can remember more faces than the average person as well. She gets fired from her job at Homeland Security when she blows her cover and accuses a high-profile woman of murdering her sister 11 years ago.
I thought this was going to go interesting places with Jane actually using her super recognizer about really, that’s about all it comes into play, and that’s really the whole reason why I picked up the book. It’s tied in a bit more later but not enough that it’s actually USED.
The rest of the book was just… a mess. Jane goes to the cape — and where her sister disappeared — to interrupt the wedding of the Richie riches, including Bella, the woman she’s accused of murdering her sister. But it was a weird, confusing mess where Jane and her boyfriend are forced to share their vacation home with the boyfriend’s mentor/coworker/boss/whoever he was and his family. All of them were HORRIBLE. So entitled, unbearable, rude, selfish, and Jane puts up with all of it. WHY? Why is she tolerating it? Why is she being a nanny to these kids? It’s insane. The boyfriend is like oh ha sorry, it’s important that I suck up to this guy. It makes no sense, none of it. The rich family was also unbearable and they’re all terrible people. I hated every single one of them.
Things are connected in the end and my assumptions were not correct but I think my ending would have been better… The actual ending was so stupid and didn’t make sense. It was one of those twists that you didn’t see coming but in a a bad way. I did get one thing right, though. The author connected everything that was going on but just by telling you this is what happened. None of it actually blends together, the story goes back on itself, I’m still confused, and all logic went out the window. This was so messy and confusing. It was incredibly unsatisfying.
DO I KNOW YOU was kind of a hot mess.
Jane is a “super recognizer” where she remembers faces easily, in more detail than everyone else, and can remember more faces than the average person as well. She gets fired from her job at Homeland Security when she blows her cover and accuses a high-profile woman of murdering her sister 11 years ago.
I thought this was going to go interesting places with Jane actually using her super recognizer about really, that’s about all it comes into play, and that’s really the whole reason why I picked up the book. It’s tied in a bit more later but not enough that it’s actually USED.
The rest of the book was just… a mess. Jane goes to the cape — and where her sister disappeared — to interrupt the wedding of the Richie riches, including Bella, the woman she’s accused of murdering her sister. But it was a weird, confusing mess where Jane and her boyfriend are forced to share their vacation home with the boyfriend’s mentor/coworker/boss/whoever he was and his family. All of them were HORRIBLE. So entitled, unbearable, rude, selfish, and Jane puts up with all of it. WHY? Why is she tolerating it? Why is she being a nanny to these kids? It’s insane. The boyfriend is like oh ha sorry, it’s important that I suck up to this guy. It makes no sense, none of it. The rich family was also unbearable and they’re all terrible people. I hated every single one of them.
Things are connected in the end and my assumptions were not correct but I think my ending would have been better… The actual ending was so stupid and didn’t make sense. It was one of those twists that you didn’t see coming but in a a bad way. I did get one thing right, though. The author connected everything that was going on but just by telling you this is what happened. None of it actually blends together, the story goes back on itself, I’m still confused, and all logic went out the window. This was so messy and confusing. It was incredibly unsatisfying.