Forget Me Not: The hottest rom-com of 2023

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I have quite a few issues with Lizzie, though. She makes big mistakes... and her brother Matt?? Well he woke up and chose violence. Charles i LOVE but i wish he had more flaws! I can’t do this anymore tonight. I need sleep if I’m going to make it through another long day of holding this all in. And I know there’s only one thing that’s going to calm me down enough to get there. I just hope she doesn’t mind. This’ll be the second time in the past week that I’ll be calling and waking her up.

I love that their love transcends Stevie’s amnesia. That she’s drawn to Nora for unexplained reasons. Forget Me Not is not a story about fixing the past, it's a story of rediscovery. It's about rediscovering what it means to love someone, and how to have dreams and the will to pursue them. I know this is a book I will hold closer to my heart with each day that passes. I hope you let it enter yours. First, let me thank NetGalley, the publisher Ballantine Books (Random House) - particularly Kathleen Quinlan for sending me a widget, and of course the author, for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own. I loved the way Olivia unfolded this story and wove science fiction and futuristic items into different parts. I thought the book very well written and very intriguing. It kept drawing me in deeper and deeper and I had to know more about this dysfunctional family Linda was born into.As a child, Linda Russell was left to raise herself in a 20-acre walled-off property in rural Washington. The woods were her home, and for twelve years she lived oblivious to a stark and terrible truth: Her mother had birthed her only to replace another daughter who died in a tragic accident years before. In this we follow Stevie and Nora. The two have been secretly dating for two years and are working on a plan to escape their suffocating small town and homophobic families. They carved out a space for themselves but everything comes tumbling down when Stevie takes a terrible fall. When she wakes up all her memories from the past two years are gone. Nora is devastated, but when Stevie inevitably finds her again, she’s determined to make her girlfriend fall for her all over again. Linda Russell lives alone. She has had a traumatic past, and she is naïve in some ways about the world around her, having been kept apart from it for so many years. Money isn’t a problem, though; she has inherited a pile of it. Yet we cannot envy her, because the unspeakable horrors she has seen outweigh the benefit of her wealth.

A unique, original, mind bending story of a colon girl l( or not, we’re getting there, promise!) who has been brought out the world to replace her death sister(really? Okay I can see thought balloons start to appear above your head, just keep on reading!It will get more interesting at each chapter) raised herself at 20 acre walled off property at rural Washington. She belongs to woods, that’s where she feels at home, free, relaxed and happy. Stevie was great. I really felt for her whole journey; before her accident her need to get out of Wyatt was palpable, and after I was so annoyed at everyone lying to her. I just wanted to keep her safe from it all. Linda is now 24, living on her own, but rarely leaving her apartment. She is closely monitored by her father. When she meets a new neighbour, Linda sees the possibility of having her first friend. So, when a fire starts at her infamous childhood home, she asks Anvi if she will take her to see it. From this point on, a chain of events starts Linda on a roller-coaster ride that has her learn the truth about her childhood. I would HIGHLY recommend this book to those who enjoy character driven pieces whose characters aren’t just caricatures of the people we meet and see on a daily basis. The entire story is told mostly through Linda’s POV and sometimes her neighbor, and possible friend, Anvi. It is sometimes difficult to be in her head because it’s so hard to relate to her since she is so far removed from what we consider to be normal in our current society. But mostly you just feel really sorry for her and want to give her a hug and let her know it’s going to be ok. It was very compelling to be with her as she grows and learns more about the world and people around her and when you get to the climax of the story you’re really rooting for the hidden strength in her and want to see her come into her own.Human's pillar is their personality. Then experience and memories shape us into a who we are. What happens if we loose a part of these memories?Does it change who we are? This book tries to that question through Stevie's journey. I had started writing this long ass review explaining, amongst other things, how some characters were absolutely toxic and infuriating (shoutout to Tyrone who remained that way from the beginning to the end).

Travelling north to Scotland again, I head to the high heather moorlands of the East Cairngorms to see our native mountain hare and investigate why they are set to become strangers in their own habitat if temperatures continue to rise. Its been long since I read a good character driven SciFi thriller like this. Forget Me Not is set in a near future that is equally emotional and suspenseful. Also ⚠️trigger warning ⚠️ infertility and stillbirth heavily features so if you are sensitive to that, please don't read this book until you feel stronger! Linda had a rough childhood. Regularly neglected and scorned by her mother as well as being kept in cage of sorts by never being allowed to really leave their property. Linda had no concept of what the outside world was or how it worked until, at just 12 years old, she sees something that she shouldn’t and in fear, she climbs over the wall of her property and is promptly rescued by a passerby. She was born for all the wrong reasons. But her search for the truth reveals answers she wishes she could forget in this suspenseful and deeply moving novel from the author of The Last One.From the beginning of the book its clear why Stevie and Nora need to leave the small town and its beautifully shown through the way they keep their relationship hidden. When Stevie gets in the accident and forgets the past two years her ”friends” acts horrible and tries to get Stevie to become someone else that she wasn’t, and her mother tries to re-establish a close relationship since they’ve grown apart. Stevie has also hidden her relationship with Nora so well that she forgets it completely herself. Stevie and Nora had a love. A secret, epic, once-in-a-lifetime kind of love. They also had a plan: to leave their small, ultra-conservative town and families behind after graduation and move to California, where they could finally stop hiding that love. But then Stevie has a terrible fall and the last two years of her life are erased overnight. Suddenly Stevie finds herself in a life she doesn’t quite understand – she’s estranged from her parents, drifting away from her friends and dating a boy she can’t remember crushing on. She’s headed towards a future that isn’t at all what her fifteen-year-old self would have envisioned. As a long-time fanfic lover of the ‘amnesia trope’, I knew this one was going to be right up my alley. And it was. When she is twelve, her mother totally abandons her, and Linda climbs the wall and escapes her prison. Unfortunately, she is ill-prepared for life outside the wall. Her father (who up til this point was unaware of Linda's existence) steps up, and raises her as best he can. But the stigma of having lived that other life follows her. Publicity over the poor child who was born under strange circumstances goes viral, and even though it is untrue, people call her the Clone Girl.