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A review by writingbydani
Blank Slate Kate by Heather Wardell
4.0
For some reason I have a weakness for amnesia-themed chick lit. I don't pretend to understand it, but there you go. So read this with a grain of salt, knowing I'm predisposed to like books like Blank Slate Kate from the outset.
This is the first book by Heather Wardell that I ever picked up, and it wasn't until I reached the end that I realized it was part of a series of linked books. I think it says something that I was motivated to go back and read all of the Toronto Series books based on this one.
The plot is pretty straightforward: woman wakes up in attractive strange man's apartment with no memory of the past fifteen years, they develop a mutual affection for each other, they find out she's actually married and was running away from her old life when she lost her memory.
On the surface it seems like just another predictable beach read. In fact, it manages to be surprising and interesting
I'd definitely recommend it for a quick and engaging read.
This is the first book by Heather Wardell that I ever picked up, and it wasn't until I reached the end that I realized it was part of a series of linked books. I think it says something that I was motivated to go back and read all of the Toronto Series books based on this one.
The plot is pretty straightforward: woman wakes up in attractive strange man's apartment with no memory of the past fifteen years, they develop a mutual affection for each other, they find out she's actually married and was running away from her old life when she lost her memory.
On the surface it seems like just another predictable beach read. In fact, it manages to be surprising and interesting
Spoiler
with a nice treatment of depression and the impact it can have, especially when before learning her condition Kate spends time having trouble getting out of bed, just staring at the walls. While her depression improves by the end of the book, it's only after therapy and medication, which is a nice change from "she decides to improve her life and just pulls out of her funk" which happens way too often in books like this.Spoiler
The only thing that really bothered me afterward is that Kate wakes up feeling like she's 17, without any of the emotional experience or maturity of a grown woman and then winds up in relationships with two adult men.I'd definitely recommend it for a quick and engaging read.