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Forget Me Not by Julie Soto

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btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I adored this book - I appreciated the dual POV of Ama in the present and Elliot in the past (for much of the book) as we see how their relationship started and how it unravelled before present day. There was a great mix of wedding planning, design, personal life, and steamy scenes that really brought the characters and their relationship to life.

I actually loved the depth it went into with the MCs feelings, as well as their work, because they were both so important to them for different reasons. The development of relationships and the secondary characters also made the book so much more fun and colourful.

I will definitely be keeping an eye out for new books by Julie Soto going forward - her writing is addictive. All in all, this is a new favourite for me!

TW: sexual content, workplace emotional abuse, injury detail; mentions cancer, death of a parent, sexual harassment

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rickireadss's review against another edition

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4.25

this is probably the best dual timeline story i've read. i really liked how in the present, it was all ama's pov but the past was all elliot's pov. it just made the story better in my opinion. i also really liked the whole wedding planning aspect - like it was just a fun time. i also loved all of ama's ex-step-siblings and wish we had more on-page interaction between them. i honestly had a great time reading. it was funny, it was hot, and it made me tear up a few times ngl.

⚠️: injury/injury detail, death of parent, grief, gaslighting, toxic relationship (FMC & boss), cancer, sexual harassment, vomit, medical content, abandonment, violence, slut shaming

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akswhy's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Solid little romance with an interesting structure.

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middle_name_joy's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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lifeonasofa's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

“You may think everything ends one day, but you haven’t had ‘everything’ with me” - Julie Soto 🩵

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 Stars

I loved this book 😭 it was really cute. A wedding planner and a florist just worked so well! I could feel the heat burning between them. 🔥

I loved Elliotts blunt comments throughout. I wasn’t as much of a fan of Ama and her flakiness but the emotional exploration from both POV throughout made it work. 🥰

☀️ Grumpy x Sunshine
☀️ Second Chance
☀️ Slow Burn
☀️ Dual Timeline/POV

Also this @afterlightbooks edition has the cutest edges and endpapers 🪻

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lisa_m's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

I wanted to love this book, I really did! It has so many things that I love and it was one of my most anticipated books this year. But now that I'm done, I just feel kind of 'meh' about it.

What did I like?
I love books with timejumps and I think telling the backstory that way was done really well.
I also do like the idea of a grumpy handsome man who owns a flower shop.
I really like his tattooes and especially the meaning of them.

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The peanut butter donut incident was interesting.

What did I not like?
The story? It might just be that I'm not really that interested in weddings but I just got bored while reading this. It felt like I was reading a todo list of a wedding planner and I really did not care about all the details and planning and other aspects of the wedding.
I also feel like the characters fell kind of flat. I like the idea behind both of them but I just didn't feel a connection at all. Ama is someone I can relate to quite well just because of her busy thoughts but even feeling that connection to her did not make me like her? All the characters felt really flat and everything we do get to know about them has some other relevance for the story.

The whole book was planned out and interconnected really well. But it was just missing the emotions for me. I don't understand why they did what they did and I didn't root for them. I don't even know what exactly the issue was because I like most of the ideas of the story. If someone told me what happened in the book and told me about the characters I would think that I'd love this book, but the way it was written just did not work for me.

The mother who constantly gets married & divorced and has a wedding planner daughter - amazing, but we don't find out anything about her besides that!

Ama having loads of stepsiblings who help her out - I like that idea but even the siblings that have a bigger role in the story just have no personality at all.

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Strong ex-boss who is kind of fake nice and supportive - interesting idea but it just made Ama look weak and also her flip from adoring her to hating her went so fast. Their relationship was just not explained well enough for me.

I wanted to like it all but I just couldn't. I strongly considered dnfing about half way through and I'm glad I didn't but also nothing that interesting really happened? I was so excited to find out what the big issue was that came to light at Elliots mother's wedding but then we find out it's just a miscommunication? I was really disappointed at that.

The ending was sweet, I really enjoyed the Tattoo reveal at the end but besides that I just don't understand their motivation. It feels to me like no issues between them really got solved and they're just ignoring them. Either that or Ama just completely turned around in 24hours and decided that actually her fear of commitment is unreasonable and she will stop with that (which is not how that works).

So all I can say is that this wasn't it for me. I was bored by the wedding details and the characters all felt incredibly two dimensional. Also the only interactions between the main couple we see is either smut or story relevant so I didn't understand their mutual obsession at all (but good for them I guess).

If you like weddings, tall and broody man who is obsessed with a small energetic woman, and smut, then this book might be perfect for you.

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