Remember Me?
by Sophie Kinsella
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Book Reviews of Remember Me?
Book Review: fine contemporary tale
Summary: 4 Stars
Twenty-eight years old Lexi Smart thinks it is still 2004 and that she disgracefully just missed her father's funeral. However, the working girl struggles with why she is in a London hospital (from a car accident) and worse she learns that it is 2007. Adding to her confusion of where the last three years went is her physical appearance; she looks great and somehow has become a successful shark businesswoman.
Lexi decides to investigate herself in order to learn what happened that changed her from mouse to lioness. She also tries to kindle warmth between her and her aloof spouse Eric while his associate Jon passionately insists she was dumping her husband for him before she bumped her head in the car accident.
Although the theme has been used numerous times, Lexi refreshes Sophie Kinsella's fun tale with her quest to learn what happened to change her as radically as she has forgotten the last three years. Her inquiries into herself enable the audience to better understand who she is, how she got to where she is, and her relationship with Eric and Jon. Ms. Kinsella provides a smart contemporary tale.
Harriet Klausner
Book Review: Original and Fun
Summary: 4 Stars
The book doesn't get 4 stars for being exceptional literature but, instead, for having an original storyline and an ending that doesn't compromise the story or its characters. If you're familiar with the premise of the ABC show `Samantha Who?' then you'll have a good idea of what this book is about. Lexi, our main character, wakes up from a car accident with no memory of the past three years. In her mind/life it's 2004 when, in fact, it's 2007. She has to play catch-up with her own life and that includes a complete makeover from how she used to look, a good-looking multi-millionaire husband, and broken friendships. Lexi receives very little support from her friends and family - in fact that was something that surprised me; the people surrounding Lexi were not interested in helping her at all. Lexi struggles, mostly alone, to figure out her life and piece together memories. The only person willing to fill in the blanks is Jon, an architect her husband works with. The book isn't perfect and I think the ending will surprise a lot of people because it's not perfect either. I enjoy Kinsella's books that are not linked to the Shopaholic series and this was no exception.Book Review: Lightweight, but great fun
Summary: 4 Stars
Lexi wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She's lost all memory of the last three years and is amazed at how her life has changed: suddenly she's married to a gorgeous guy, she's running her department at work and on paper her life suddenly seems perfect. But slowly she starts to realize that things are not quite as wonderful as they initially appeared to be. For starters, her best friends seem to have distanced themselves from her. And her husband Eric doesn't really seem to be her type.
This is a fast and fun book to read. The premise hooks you in and some parts are laugh out loud funny (particularly when Lexi realizes why her husband keeps making the Mt Blanc references). Okay, so it doesn't stretch your brain too much and you need to suspend your disbelief that she would have made some of the changes in her life, but overall it's still very entertaining. A perfect holiday read.
This is the third Sophie Kinsella book that I've read, and while I enjoyed it, I don't think it's as good as her others. If you like her books you'll enjoy this too, but if you're new to her as an author I think her others are better.
Book Review: SK does it again, now with 30% more amnesia.
Summary: 4 Stars
I was never really a fan of Sophie Kinsella's until I read Can You Keep a Secret?. I had read the first Shopaholic book but I didn't really like Becky as a heroine. That all changed with CYKAS, and since then, I have been one of SK's biggest fans. I loved The Undomestic Goddess and had been waiting for her newest book to come out. Well, it has, and it's FANTASTIC.
The heroine, Lexi Smart (Gardiner) begins the book downtrodden and fed up with her humdrum life. After a knock on the head (or two) she wakes up and sees a totally new person reflected in the mirror. And, believe it or not, despite appearances, her life is MORE miserable than it was when she had a crap job, a boyfriend named Loser Dave and the nickname "Snaggletooth". Lexi has to figure out what happened over the past 3 years and decide whether or not she likes the "new" Lexi.
A perfect beach book that has a little bit of a kick, pleasantly mindless but thoroughly engaging.
Book Review: Not -- Quite -- There
Summary: 4 Stars
Sophie Kinsella is the gold standard by which all other chick lit writers fall short. As I began this book, it was like coming home, a "Now this is what I'm talking about" moment. I have read all her books, Undomestic Goddess probably being my favorite. The opening chapters in Remember Me? had me riveted with anticipation and delight. However, as the book progress, it seemed to lack the "tangled web" of plot I have enjoyed in her other books. The storyline was a more of a straight line, and I hoped for a more complex resolution (for example) to the business conflict in the end - more development as to how her former company missed the boat, and more detail in how her new venture succeeded. The ending with Jon was probably more in line with reality, but when have we been concerned with reality? That is what is so amazing about her stories, so unbelievable in reality, yet we fall helplessly hooked and convinced it could be no other way. The hallmark of her writing is how these characters get themselves into unbelievable, no way out messes that resolve wonderfully -it is just a joy to see. This one fell a bit short of that usual magic for me.