A review by amanda_reads13
Forget You Know Me by Jessica Strawser

mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

One evening, while on a video chat with her friend, Liza sees a masked man enter Molly's house. After driving through the night to check on her, she receives an icy reception. Confused as to what is happening, she drives home only to find out that she has had her own near miss. 

I definitely wouldn't classify this as a thriller, more of a family drama/ relationship drama. I thought it was a really interesting premise and had a lot of potential, but I just wasn't really drawn into the story or captivated by the characters. The characters were kind of bland and boring, and there really wasn't much growth to them. All these relationships are toxic, nobody's, honest with each other and nobody trusts each other.

The whole premise of this book is that everybody is lying to everyone and everybody's keeping secrets. You can't really trust what anybody says. 

Molly has been in pain ever since giving birth to her son and has tried everything possible to help herself, but nothing is worked. In order to pay off some of the debt she's accumulated, she takes out a sketchy loan and doesn't tell her husband. 

Her husband, Daniel, catches somebody stealing at work. Only the thief has leverage over Daniel knowing that he has taken a few " work trips" that aren't quite on the up and up. AKA he's probably having an affair. So the thief uses this to try to blackmail Daniel. 

Molly has grown close to a male neighbour and their daughter are friends. Molly feels like their relationship is teetering on the edge of inappropriate. One day she makes an off-handed comment to him about him "breaking into her" house. 

After the break-in we are given three possible suspects : the neighbor, The lone sharks, or the thieving coworker. All of them are plausible.
From the beginning I suspected it was Daniel. So I wasn't surprised when it was revealed to have been him who had broken into the house.


All the while we have a subplot with Liza and her drama. After leaving Molly's house that first night she comes home to find that
her apartment building had burnt down and that everybody on her floor had died. So essentially her seeing Daniel break in saved her life.


There's almost too much going on. Well nothing's going on.
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