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skillyillian's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
It's....fine. Idk. Not really my vibe like I thought it would be. The narrators for the audiobook gave every single woman the most outrageous valley girl California accent and it was hard to bear at times. It made everything come off much whinier. Elliott is the most emo man I've ever read in my life and considering the amount of romantasy I've read that's really saying something lmfao. Everything is the worst problem to ever happen to him and he is wildly rude to everyone and somehow that has??? No consequences ever????? Idk. The plot was fine but I wasn't ever eager to pick it back up and see what happened next. It's a quick read with loads of smut that I honestly ended up skipping anyway. I did like the ending though, I liked that it wasn't 100% cut and dry with Elliott and ama. Everything else was just kinda meh for me. 🤷🏻♀️
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing
Moderate: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail
readwithria's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Forget Me Not was a fun, steamy, emotional read that kept me on my toes and turning pages all day.
This book was so fun! I initially wanted to wait to read this until after my wedding, but the plot didn’t give me any nightmares or budget envy. Instead it showed me Ama, an amazing wedding planner, and her second chance with Elliot, the grumpiest floral designer in the world.
I really loved the characters, the dual timeline, the weddings, and the chemistry between Ama and Elliot. I loved how he took care of her, how they set, maintained, and self-adjusted their boundaries, and how they made each other sparkle.
I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next from Julie Soto, she’s definitely getting added to my list of auto-buy authors. 4 stars
This book was so fun! I initially wanted to wait to read this until after my wedding, but the plot didn’t give me any nightmares or budget envy. Instead it showed me Ama, an amazing wedding planner, and her second chance with Elliot, the grumpiest floral designer in the world.
I really loved the characters, the dual timeline, the weddings, and the chemistry between Ama and Elliot. I loved how he took care of her, how they set, maintained, and self-adjusted their boundaries, and how they made each other sparkle.
I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next from Julie Soto, she’s definitely getting added to my list of auto-buy authors. 4 stars
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Cursing
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Medical content, Death of parent, and Alcohol
chris_reads's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Gaslighting, Medical content, and Death of parent
melissaslibraryy's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
I lovedddd Elliot, he was the perfect grump with a major soft spot for his girl even when she’d get on my nerves 😭
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Cursing, Sexual content, and Gaslighting
Minor: Sexual harassment
zias's review against another edition
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Grumpy/sunshine second chance romance? That’s my jam. I thought Ama and Elliott’s story was sweet and that they had good chemistry.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Medical content
corncake's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
2.75
This is for people who love romance books, and all their tropes.
It's something fun and easy-to-read, with decent pacing and a good dose of salacious content for booklovers who enjoy spice with their romance.
However, I did not love this book. I was entertained for the week I read it, and I didn't hate the writing...but the characters and their romance personally fell super flat for me.
To me, this was The Wedding Planner meets a fix-it fic of 500 Days of Summer.
It's sad because the beginning of the book had me hooked. I am a sucker for a character who knows how to do their job super well - and you could tell Ama knew her s***. I loved getting to know our heroine in those beginning chapters - how she operates her business, her relationships with her ex/current step-siblings, and her "I'm gonna make this happen" attitude.
Ama was a hardworking, empathetic girl boss with an ironic reason for becoming a wedding planner - and I loved the book for that. Sadly, as the story went on, I felt as if we lost a lot of that beginning Ama characterization to compensate for a romance that felt unbelievable (and not in the good way).
This was a second chance romance, but I have no idea why Ama and Elliot wanted to get back together. They clearly wanted different relationships(even ironically by the end of the book in what I imagine was supposed to be a "cute" and "funny" ending/new beginning for our couple) , had no chemistry together outside their sex scenes, and barely spoke with each other in the "current timeline" of the story to make me believe they were still in love.
Mutual pinning can only go so far. I need something more to sell me on their romance and why they even like each other. I believe they are great business partners, but they definitely need to see other people in the romance department.
I hope to read other books in the future by this author in hopes that I find one that lands for me. Unfortunately, the main couple and their boring relationship are what made me disinterested in this love story.
It's something fun and easy-to-read, with decent pacing and a good dose of salacious content for booklovers who enjoy spice with their romance.
However, I did not love this book. I was entertained for the week I read it, and I didn't hate the writing...but the characters and their romance personally fell super flat for me.
To me, this was The Wedding Planner meets a fix-it fic of 500 Days of Summer.
It's sad because the beginning of the book had me hooked. I am a sucker for a character who knows how to do their job super well - and you could tell Ama knew her s***. I loved getting to know our heroine in those beginning chapters - how she operates her business, her relationships with her ex/current step-siblings, and her "I'm gonna make this happen" attitude.
Ama was a hardworking, empathetic girl boss with an ironic reason for becoming a wedding planner - and I loved the book for that. Sadly, as the story went on, I felt as if we lost a lot of that beginning Ama characterization to compensate for a romance that felt unbelievable (and not in the good way).
This was a second chance romance, but I have no idea why Ama and Elliot wanted to get back together. They clearly wanted different relationships
Mutual pinning can only go so far. I need something more to sell me on their romance and why they even like each other. I believe they are great business partners, but they definitely need to see other people in the romance department.
I hope to read other books in the future by this author in hopes that I find one that lands for me. Unfortunately, the main couple and their boring relationship are what made me disinterested in this love story.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Death of parent
Minor: Medical content and Alcohol
-Second Chance Romance -Sunshine Girl Boss Meets Grumpy Tsundere Boy -Dislike to Lovers -No Slow Burn. -Immediate Attraction -"Toxic Relationship" content warning for Ama's ex boss.amy_in_the_city's review against another edition
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
A second chance romance (?) between two people that don't belong together and should seek out therapy instead. It feels like it was written by one of those people who consider 500 Days of Summer a rom-com and wrote a fix-it fic for the main characters to end up together despite wanting different things. Ama clearly tells Elliot she doesn't do relationships. That should have been the end of it. She strings him along a bit, but he also lets himself be strung along because he doesn't believe her when she says "no relationships."
So much time was spent on the wedding planning plot and describing all the details and to-do lists that there was no time left for the romantic relationship or for character development in general. There were two chances to show them falling in love (past and present), but I never really felt they were in love. The past timeline mostly seemed about lust. They had sex a lot, but they didn't really have any conversations where they get to know each other in a way that makes their "love" believable. I couldn't tell you anything they like about each other besides he likes her ass and she likes his tattoos. They have maybe two conversations in the present timeline and neither show them falling for each other again.
Ama was pretty immature. I spent most of the book wondering why she never saw a therapist to deal with her feelings about her mother's many divorces and how that affects her views on relationships. You would think she would have sought out a therapist after her outlook on relationships ruined what she had with Elliot the first time but apparently not. Other than her relationship hang-ups and her career goals, she didn't have much of a personality.
Elliott was just kind of a jerk. Repeat after me: "grumpy" does not equal "being rude to everyone you're not currently banging." His first scene with Ama when she was trying to discuss a business opportunity and he was just negging her nonstop was not cute. It was also dumb as a business owner to be needlessly rude to a potential client. His inner thoughts were funny at times though, and I liked the general idea of him in theory.
A lot of reviews praise the steamy scenes but something about them felt off to me. There were some beautifully written lines in here about love but unfortunately, they felt out of character when the romance was so underdeveloped.
So much time was spent on the wedding planning plot and describing all the details and to-do lists that there was no time left for the romantic relationship or for character development in general. There were two chances to show them falling in love (past and present), but I never really felt they were in love. The past timeline mostly seemed about lust. They had sex a lot, but they didn't really have any conversations where they get to know each other in a way that makes their "love" believable. I couldn't tell you anything they like about each other besides he likes her ass and she likes his tattoos. They have maybe two conversations in the present timeline and neither show them falling for each other again.
Ama was pretty immature. I spent most of the book wondering why she never saw a therapist to deal with her feelings about her mother's many divorces and how that affects her views on relationships. You would think she would have sought out a therapist after her outlook on relationships ruined what she had with Elliot the first time but apparently not. Other than her relationship hang-ups and her career goals, she didn't have much of a personality.
Elliott was just kind of a jerk. Repeat after me: "grumpy" does not equal "being rude to everyone you're not currently banging." His first scene with Ama when she was trying to discuss a business opportunity and he was just negging her nonstop was not cute. It was also dumb as a business owner to be needlessly rude to a potential client. His inner thoughts were funny at times though, and I liked the general idea of him in theory.
A lot of reviews praise the steamy scenes but something about them felt off to me. There were some beautifully written lines in here about love but unfortunately, they felt out of character when the romance was so underdeveloped.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Cancer, Medical content, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Vomit and Alcohol
Minor: Car accident and Classism
kfmcf's review against another edition
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I enjoyed this book. Am I mad it's yet another Reylo, absolutely, but at least it was less obviously in the past timeline.
Speaking of the past timeline, that was the stronger aspects of the book to me. I loved the MMC's POV. He was so awkward and goony and it really showed their chemistry and what they both needed from each other. I missed that in the present timeline - I felt that we really didn't get any time with them together in the present and feel the draw of them coming back together. I did think having the timelines have one POV respective to each of them was a fun choice that was done well.
I also wasn't a huge fan of the cartoonishly evil villain. It was predictable and added a phony tension to the last act of the book.
This is so nitpicky - but I'm so picky about covers. Why do they both look so sickly. The color choices of purple and green, love, great, totally fine. But the characters are grey. why.
Overall, I still had a good time with this one and will keep an eye out for future Julie Soto's.
Speaking of the past timeline, that was the stronger aspects of the book to me. I loved the MMC's POV. He was so awkward and goony and it really showed their chemistry and what they both needed from each other. I missed that in the present timeline - I felt that we really didn't get any time with them together in the present and feel the draw of them coming back together. I did think having the timelines have one POV respective to each of them was a fun choice that was done well.
I also wasn't a huge fan of the cartoonishly evil villain. It was predictable and added a phony tension to the last act of the book.
This is so nitpicky - but I'm so picky about covers. Why do they both look so sickly. The color choices of purple and green, love, great, totally fine. But the characters are grey. why.
Overall, I still had a good time with this one and will keep an eye out for future Julie Soto's.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gaslighting and Sexual content
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Medical content
rickireadss's review against another edition
4.25
this is probably the best dual timeline story i've read. i really liked how in the present, it was all ama's pov but the past was all elliot's pov. it just made the story better in my opinion. i also really liked the whole wedding planning aspect - like it was just a fun time. i also loved all of ama's ex-step-siblings and wish we had more on-page interaction between them. i honestly had a great time reading. it was funny, it was hot, and it made me tear up a few times ngl.
⚠️: injury/injury detail, death of parent, grief, gaslighting, toxic relationship (FMC & boss), cancer, sexual harassment, vomit, medical content, abandonment, violence, slut shaming
⚠️: injury/injury detail, death of parent, grief, gaslighting, toxic relationship (FMC & boss), cancer, sexual harassment, vomit, medical content, abandonment, violence, slut shaming
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Cancer, Sexual harassment, Medical content, and Vomit
Minor: Abandonment and Violence
wrensreadingroom's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Gaslighting, Cancer, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Cursing, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Death