This was a really interesting book. Imagine if you wake up in the hospital after a car accident and your most current memory is three years before when you were out with your friends for the evening. You slipped and fell getting into a taxi. In the hospital, you think this is what has brought you to the hospital. But it is three years later and every vestige of those three years is lost to you.
No one is sure how long your memory will be gone or if any parts of it will resurface.
But 'you' as you are now are not the 'you' that you remember. The old you had the nickname Snaggletooth. Now you have perfect pearly whites. And that's just the beginning. All your friends have changed. You are now a high powered executive (or you are told you are one...and you weren't particularly likeable.)
And how are you to figure out the truth when there are lies in abundance around you?
Oh! and don't forget you are married -- and you have the wedding album to prove it -- but not a single memory. Never mind that he is handsome and wealthy and perfect -- or not.
That is the premise of this book and Kinsella keeps it up through 389 pages.
Is there any three year portion of your memories that you'd be willing to give up? Not likely, not when every single memory is wiped out.
And who is Lexi to trust? her husband who is more than a little creepy? the colleague in her office who covets her job? the man who says they were lovers and she was going to leave her husband?
And those who knew her during these years are not so quick to fill in the blanks, or they revise history if it would show themselves better, so whose 'memories' can she trust?
Her life is perfect -- or is it?
She is a heroine you root for, with spunk, courage and joy, and you are not disappointed. She manages to get the best of those who want the worst for her, while finding herself, and the memories she makes are worth having.
This book is a delight to read. Nearly every page has some humor in it. It's told in Lexi's voice and takes place in London. I think it might be good to listen to this book read, if the reader is British.
Kinsella has also written the Shopaholic books, which I intend to read in the near future.
Have you read this book or any of her books?
I give it a 4. Whose memories of your life would you trust? I suspect there are some parts of my life that would be lost to me, as I'd have a hard time believing it all!
It is also available for Kindle:
Karin
www.savvythinker.com
Originally posted 2008-06-20 21:13:32.
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Must be an enjoyable read Remember Me?: A Novel by Sophie Kinsella. loved the way you wrote it. I find your review very genuine and orignal, this book is going in by “to read” list.