Review by morybaby - Say You'll Remember Me

morybaby 's review for:

Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez

5.0

funny hopeful informative fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

My second five star of the year. Two in one month🥳
IMO, this is Abby Jimenez’s best work and I’ll tell you why

1. No third act break up
2. Samantha and Xavier just kept trying to be together and I think that’s so brave.

Between us girls, I did not understand the ACOTAR references because I didn’t get very far in that book before I dnfed it. I get that the girls were irked about it and also because the author is problematic. Hypocritically, I separated her work from Abby Jimenez’s work. Don’t jump me.

Now, i am not a fan of insta love as a trope but my goodness it worked in this one. I think they had chemistry from the get go and also being stuck in a ufo escape room cements a relationship in my eyes. They were already attracted to one another and it just built from there.

I was so stressed for them because all the trips Xavier was making was unsustainable and when he eventually crashed, it was brutal.

Samantha dealing with her family and her mom’s dementia

and grandmother’s death was so heart wrenching. In my head I genuinely thought AJ would kill the mother and then Sam would go back to Minnesota. I genuinely did not want Xavier giving up his practice because that meant his parents would have some sort of joy and I wish them no such thing.

I loved Sam and her family so much.

I liked they didn’t put the mom in a home even through that was the easy way out but they kept their promise to her

Xavier didn’t have a family but he ended up with the best found family.

I really really liked how it ended. Oh the epilogue made my heart soar.
I have not experienced the kind of love that makes you give up your livelihood to be with your partner. In their case, long distance was all they could do, but at some point something had to give. Xavier chose Samantha and it all worked out splendidly. His parents can choke. I love how he blended so well with his in-laws.

Abby you did the damn thing 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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