ldillaway's profile picture

ldillaway 's review for:

Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
3.0

This was ok. I liked the family issues both mcs were dealing with, I thought both issues were handled fairly well given how serious they were, and I appreciate the conflict came from dealing with these tough situations, not from an interpersonal conflict between the mcs.

But the romance didn’t really work for me. It’s super insta-love, like after one date they’re both at the “I can’t live without you” stage. Xavier also was a little off putting to me in how protective he felt of Samantha and how much he would completely neglect his own needs just to do things for her, when she wasn’t even asking him to. And for how much it was driven home that they were really struggling financially, they both wasted so much money on erratic travel decisions. Not everything needs to be a surprise. Also some cringy lines I really didn’t like, like the Rhysand thing, but that’s probably to be expected in most contemporary romances.