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A review by blurrypetals
Say You'll Remember Me by Katie McGarry
3.0
Man, this was one of my most anticipated releases of 2018 and, well, I'm disappointed.
It felt like it was one tired trope after another. That's usually what Katie McGarry is for me, but it isn't tired; it's usually energized, fun, and done so well that it doesn't matter how "done" the tropes are because it's cute and fun and melodramatic...kind of like a soap opera, but legitimately good.
This had the melodrama, it had moments of cute fun and chemistry, but it was just missing...something, I don't know what it was, but it was missing. I wasn't nearly as invested as I've been with literally every other thing she's written and I don't know why. Maybe because the whole "bad boy meets good girl and they get together because the world doesn't get to tell them what to do" finally wore thin on me (even though I just saw and adored it in Jennifer L. Armentrout's The Problem With Forever and, like I said before, with every single other main series Katie McGarry book) I really don't know, but this just wasn't nearly as good of a time as I wanted it to be and I'm really disappointed about it. Hopefully she'll release another book soon and she'll hit her stride, we'll realize this was a fluke, and this will just be left by the wayside.
I admire her for not trying to make this another Pushing the Limits or Thunder Road book, but it was still a romance between two troubled teens in Kentucky set in modern day so it isn't very far from the path, but I still admire her for trying to break out of her shell, even if that try wasn't a very good one.
It felt like it was one tired trope after another. That's usually what Katie McGarry is for me, but it isn't tired; it's usually energized, fun, and done so well that it doesn't matter how "done" the tropes are because it's cute and fun and melodramatic...kind of like a soap opera, but legitimately good.
This had the melodrama, it had moments of cute fun and chemistry, but it was just missing...something, I don't know what it was, but it was missing. I wasn't nearly as invested as I've been with literally every other thing she's written and I don't know why. Maybe because the whole "bad boy meets good girl and they get together because the world doesn't get to tell them what to do" finally wore thin on me (even though I just saw and adored it in Jennifer L. Armentrout's The Problem With Forever and, like I said before, with every single other main series Katie McGarry book) I really don't know, but this just wasn't nearly as good of a time as I wanted it to be and I'm really disappointed about it. Hopefully she'll release another book soon and she'll hit her stride, we'll realize this was a fluke, and this will just be left by the wayside.
I admire her for not trying to make this another Pushing the Limits or Thunder Road book, but it was still a romance between two troubled teens in Kentucky set in modern day so it isn't very far from the path, but I still admire her for trying to break out of her shell, even if that try wasn't a very good one.