Hi friends! I am back from the dead with another book review, and a spicy one at that. Forget Me Not was on my most anticipated releases list for this year, but it ended up being a major bummer. Let’s get into it!
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Quick Synopsis
An ambitious wedding planner must work with her grumpy florist ex, whose heart she broke, on the most high-profile wedding of her career, in this spicy and emotional romance from popular fanfic author Julie Soto.
About Forget Me Not
Title: Forget Me Not
Author: Julie Soto
Rating: 2 Stars
Genre: Romance
Content Warnings: Abandonment issues, parental death, fatphobia
Pages: 352
Age Range: 18+
Publisher: Forever
Date Published: 11 July 2023
Goodreads Description: Ama Torres loves being a wedding planner. But with a mother who has been married more times than you can count on your fingers, Ama has decided that marriage is not the route for her. But weddings? Weddings are amazing. As a small business owner, she knows how to match her clients with the perfect vendor to give them the wedding of their dreams. Well, almost perfect…
Elliot hates being a florist, most of the time. When his father left him the flower shop, he considered it a burden, but he’s stuck with it. Just like how he’s stuck with the way he proposed to Ama, his main collaborator and girlfriend (or was she?) two years ago. But flowers have grown on him, just like Ama did. And flowers can’t run off and never speak to him again, like Ama did.
When Ama is hired to plan a celebrity wedding that will bring her business national exposure, there’s a catch: Elliot is already contracted to design the flowers. Things are not helped by the two brides, who see the obvious chemistry between Ama and Elliot and are determined to set them up, not knowing their complicated history. Add in a meddling ex-boss, and a reality TV film crew documenting every step of the wedding prep, and Ama and Elliot’s hearts are not only in jeopardy again, but this time, their livelihoods are too.
I received a review copy from LibroFM. All opinions are my own.
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Forget Me Not Review
It’s always so disappointing when a book you were looking forward to ends up being a 2-star read.
Both the cover and the premise of this book had me hooked since it was announced, but the actual execution was just the worst.
There might be spoilers ahead, but most of what I’ll mention happens in the first few chapters of the book. Here’s what I didn’t like about Forget Me Not:
- Both the main characters actually suck, and I didn’t root for them at all.
- Elliot straight-up watches as Ama get sexually assaulted, but decides not to do anything about it.
- When Elliot and Ama meet for the first time, he notes how much she looks like a 16-year-old (and he’s still into it). Ick.
- Ama claims to eat a donut every single day, and when Elliot finds this out, he immediately inspects her body for signs of said one donut a day, and I found that disgusting.
- Honestly, if a man treated me like Elliot treats Ama on their first meeting, there would not be a second meeting, no matter how many floral tattoos he has.
- They never, not once, talk about their issues. It’s just sex (which is fine, more power to you) but I thought they would at least talk it out in the end. Nope. Everything is just magically fine.
I could probably mention a whole bunch of other things that bothered me, like the dual timeline and the general ick this book gave me, but I don’t want to rant for too long. Overall this just didn’t work for me.
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Oh no, this one sounds disappointing! Especially because the synopsis sounds cute (I love second chance romance!) but those behaviors are just not good at all. Thanks for sharing.