booksiedaisy_ 's review for:

Forget Me Not by Q.B. Tyler

3.75

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Forget Me Not was an angsty read, that made up for its plot holes by making me feel ridiculously emotional. 

I don’t know what it is, but recently I’ve been craving a romance that makes me feel things. I don’t want lighthearted, I want rip-my-heart out and stomp on it emotions. What can I say, the lack of social interaction that comes with a global pandemic has left me wanting to feel sad. 

I was worried going into this one. Cheating is hard to make work in romance novels, because we like to idealize our heroes. This one worked better than I anticipated. The hero grovelled, and there was a lot of exploration into what led him to cheat. It was emotional and I finished it in one morning instead of getting work done. 

The reason this was not a 4-star read for me was because of the handling of Bennett’s mistress/girlfriend.

To be honest I’m not even entirely sure mistress is the correct word for her. Obviously, she kept returning to bother the couple, which did make sense, she was dating(?) the hero before the accident. I didn’t think the reasoning behind why he kept going back to the her was completely explained. The part that I HATED, however, was when Olivia confronted her. The confrontation was catty, she threw sex in the other girl’s face and told her that Bennett had never loved her. It’s not that I felt the mistress didn’t deserve it – she did, like take the hint girl they keep telling you to get lost. But for Olivia, a character who was otherwise very fair and level-headed the entire novel, I just didn’t love it. It very much ruined the ending of the book for me.