Remember me? by Sophie Kinsella

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Title of book: Remember Me?

 

Name of author: Sophie Kinsella

 

ISBN: 0593053893

 

Pages: 352 pages

 

Publisher: Bantam Press (11 Feb 2008)

 

 

Synopsis:

 

Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually 2007 - she's twenty-eight, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department - and she's married! To a good-looking millionaire! How on earth did she land the dream life??! She can't believe her luck - especially when she sees her stunning new home. She's sure she'll have a fantastic marriage once she gets to know her husband again. He's drawn up a 'manual of our marriage', which should help. But as she learns more about her new self, chinks start to appear in the perfect life. All her old colleagues hate her. A rival is after her job. Then a dishevelled, sexy guy turns up...and lands a new bombshell. What happened to her? Will she ever remember? And what will happen if she does?

 

'Remember Me?' is Sophie Kinsella's 8th book and I have enjoyed all 7 of them especially the Shopaholic series.

 

'Remember Me?' tells the story of Lexi, its 2004, she is 25 years old and stuck in a pointless job, has a rubbish boyfriend but she does have good friends, then while running for a taxi (well Lexi actually runs up a flight of stairs to try and grab the attention of the taxi, Lexi falls down the stairs and knocks herself unconcious and wakes to a different world, very different in fact, its 2008 and Lexi is married, has a high powered job, her friends hate her and there is a slight chance she is having an affair and she has amnesia and does not remember anything since falling down the stairs.

 

Unfortunately 'Remember Me?' just did not do it for me. I read the book in a day and I only finished it because I had bought this book instead of another book which I know I would have enjoyed, I felt I owed it to the book that I did not buy (dramatic but true).

 

Its obivious whilst reading that Sophie Kinsella has done a lot of research into amnesia but Lexi as a character annoyed me - alot, her actions during her big change were questionable, her reasons for these changes went against everything you were lead to believe about Lexi.

 

Lexi is not one of Sophie's Kinsella's best characters.

 

Rating: 4/10

[happyanddandy]

Thanks Gyre - I only got a few chapters into 'Domestic Goddess' and gave up. I did enjoy 'Shopaholics' though

[Guest ii]

Thanks Gyre - I only got a few chapters into 'Domestic Goddess' and gave up. I did enjoy 'Shopaholics' though

 

Domestic Goddess took a while to pick up, if I remember correctly. I found the Shopaholic's repetitive, but Can You Keep A Secret? was good. As fait would have it, I actually considered the Remember Me? for a really long time yesterday, but they only had it as a big paperback, and I hate those, I much prefer the smaller ones, so I chose something else. But I made a mental note to get this one.