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A review by witchy_book_babe
Help Me Remember by Corinne Michaels
Did not finish book.
DNF at 75%
I found the SE at a Used Book Store & was very excited to have found such a gem! I have never read anything prior by this Author. But, I was intrigued with the premise. What started out really promising, soon began to unravel.
All of these were issues in the book early on. I really gave it a chance and overlooked a lot of stumbles:
-FMC wakes up in the hospital after a few days, having to discover she was assaulted & her brother did not survive the attack. (There was a lack of serious injuries that I was looking for, or an explanation to why exactly the fmc, Brielle, lost her memories. But, I rolled with it as it wasn’t something I got hung up on).
-Because her brothers killer has still not been found or there are any viable leads, the prosecution has told the family and friends to not in any way assist Brielle with her memories. As it would be seen as undermining her testimony. (Odd, but again I rolled with it).
-I was pretty bummed out that very, very early on you discover out Brielle was in a secret relationship. (This is something I would have LOVED to have been something discovered near the end of the book).
-Even though there were definitely things that were very cute and had me continuing to read, I realized that a lot of what I read up until the 75% mark really had no purpose to the story. And I did not feel like I wanted to read how the Author was going to cram in the conclusion to who the killer was in the remaining 10 Chapters. Not to mention the way she threw in a lovely “break up act”, which made no sense….
This story had potential, but the way it was executed was too boring and didn’t have a clear destination. Bummed that this book let me down.
I found the SE at a Used Book Store & was very excited to have found such a gem! I have never read anything prior by this Author. But, I was intrigued with the premise. What started out really promising, soon began to unravel.
All of these were issues in the book early on. I really gave it a chance and overlooked a lot of stumbles:
-FMC wakes up in the hospital after a few days, having to discover she was assaulted & her brother did not survive the attack. (There was a lack of serious injuries that I was looking for, or an explanation to why exactly the fmc, Brielle, lost her memories. But, I rolled with it as it wasn’t something I got hung up on).
-Because her brothers killer has still not been found or there are any viable leads, the prosecution has told the family and friends to not in any way assist Brielle with her memories. As it would be seen as undermining her testimony. (Odd, but again I rolled with it).
-I was pretty bummed out that very, very early on you discover out Brielle was in a secret relationship. (This is something I would have LOVED to have been something discovered near the end of the book).
-Even though there were definitely things that were very cute and had me continuing to read, I realized that a lot of what I read up until the 75% mark really had no purpose to the story. And I did not feel like I wanted to read how the Author was going to cram in the conclusion to who the killer was in the remaining 10 Chapters. Not to mention the way she threw in a lovely “break up act”, which made no sense….
This story had potential, but the way it was executed was too boring and didn’t have a clear destination. Bummed that this book let me down.