Forget Me Not is a crime thriller and the first in a series.
Amanda’s ex-husband has died and left her
everything. Considering they hadn’t seen each other in years, this is a strange
occurrence, but Amanda takes her son, Kevin, and off they head to Summit Lake where
the house Brad has left her still stands. Summit Lake is where Amanda grew up
and her mom and stepfather live there, so it’ll be a good getaway for her, Kevin,
and their dog, Lacey.
Not too long after arriving, Amanda starts receiving
threatening letters and gifts meant to create fear. With no other leads, the
police are unable to help. When the threats turn physical, Amanda knows she
needs to figure out what’s going on by herself or she could end up dead. And
when a startling revelation about her ex surfaces, more questions open up. But
without answers for them…
The book started with a hook, and as it
moved on, I thought this was a great idea. It could have been the whole way
through too if it wasn’t for some things in the story that didn’t gel. There
seemed to be a lot of info that the author wanted the reader to know (which you
would expect would add to the story/character and move it forward) but that
turned out to be info not needed. Like a lot of backstory that didn’t assist
with the outcome or in specific circumstances.
Some of the physical feats were pretty
impressive, even if pretty improbable, and as soon as an animal is hurt in a
story, that gets my back up. I didn’t understand the need to get the garage
sale going so quickly, how a recovering alcoholic was given a wine cooler to
drink, why Amanda would dive into situations where it was obvious what was
going to happen, and that one can just contact Russian gangsters that are to be
found on Google.
*spoiler alert ahead and attacker mentioned*
And what I found very strange was why the
killer waited so long to exact the revenge. For someone who was able to show up
at the precise moment needed for so many attacks and get into so many places
without being seen (after having stalked Amanda), he seemed remarkably clueless
on what had happened before especially with Kevin’s dad. Plus considering the
fact that he had a wife just about to give birth and she was with him all the
time, how was he able to leave the house to attack Amanda at the times he did?
There were far too many coincidences and he was such a small character in the
story to suddenly be the killer.
I’m really disappointed as I felt sure this
was going to be a great read, but I was let down by the story as well as errors
in the book and quantification of speech (he said/she said is not necessary every
single time). The ending also felt very rushed and I closed the book with no
real feeling of resolution.
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