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kerrylonsdale's review against another edition
5.0
I read an advanced copy of this book and absolutely loved the story, as I do with all of Karma's books. It's an emotional love story with suspense and mystery. A definite page-turner. I couldn't put it down.
kbranfield's review against another edition
4.0
The Life Lucy Knew by Karma Brown is an engaging novel with unusual but fascinating storyline.
Waking up from a coma, Lucy Sparks is confused by the presence of her "work husband" Matt Newman and the absence of her real life husband, Daniel London. Needless to say, she is shocked to discover that her marriage to Daniel never happened and her memories of their wedding are an unexpected side effect from the concussion that put her in a coma. Lucy is experiencing confabulated memory disorder and gaps in her memory from the injury to her brain. Some of her memories, like her marriage to Daniel, are false, but to her, they are very real. Other memories, including her break up with Daniel and her current relationship with Matt, are frustratingly missing, maybe forever. After she leaves the hospital, Lucy moves back in with Matt. But will her love for Daniel prevent her from trying to trying to resume the life she shared with Matt?
Before her head injury, Lucy has a pretty charmed life. She has a successful career that she truly enjoys. She and Matt are blissfully happy. She has a wonderful friendship with Jenny and Lucy is close to her parents and sister, Alex. But after the accident, she is missing about four years of her life and she cannot comprehend why she ended her engagement to Daniel or how her friendship with Matt turned into a romance. Despite learning Daniel has moved on with someone else, she is consumed with thoughts of him. A chance encounter takes her down a dangerous path that she knows is wrong, but Lucy is so helplessly unmoored from her life in the present, she clings to the love she feels for Daniel. She is also quite aware that she is hurting Matt but will Lucy continue making the wrong choices as she tries to figure out what her "new" future holds?
Matt is an incredibly loyal, caring and compassionate man and he never hesitates to make whatever sacrifice he needs in order to be there for Lucy. He is reluctant to push her to remember what they shared but he finally attempts to jog her memory. Matt's efforts to re-create the pivotal moments in their relationship are bittersweet and poignant especially once Lucy realizes just how confused her memories are. Matt is deeply in love with Lucy, but will his patience run out once he learns the truth about what she has been doing behind his back?
The Life Lucy Knew is an emotional novel with a clever storyline and interesting characters. Some of Lucy's decisions are exasperating but understandable as she tries to make peace with everything that has happened to her. Karma Brown brings the novel to a heartfelt and somewhat unexpected conclusion that will absolutely delight readers.
Waking up from a coma, Lucy Sparks is confused by the presence of her "work husband" Matt Newman and the absence of her real life husband, Daniel London. Needless to say, she is shocked to discover that her marriage to Daniel never happened and her memories of their wedding are an unexpected side effect from the concussion that put her in a coma. Lucy is experiencing confabulated memory disorder and gaps in her memory from the injury to her brain. Some of her memories, like her marriage to Daniel, are false, but to her, they are very real. Other memories, including her break up with Daniel and her current relationship with Matt, are frustratingly missing, maybe forever. After she leaves the hospital, Lucy moves back in with Matt. But will her love for Daniel prevent her from trying to trying to resume the life she shared with Matt?
Before her head injury, Lucy has a pretty charmed life. She has a successful career that she truly enjoys. She and Matt are blissfully happy. She has a wonderful friendship with Jenny and Lucy is close to her parents and sister, Alex. But after the accident, she is missing about four years of her life and she cannot comprehend why she ended her engagement to Daniel or how her friendship with Matt turned into a romance. Despite learning Daniel has moved on with someone else, she is consumed with thoughts of him. A chance encounter takes her down a dangerous path that she knows is wrong, but Lucy is so helplessly unmoored from her life in the present, she clings to the love she feels for Daniel. She is also quite aware that she is hurting Matt but will Lucy continue making the wrong choices as she tries to figure out what her "new" future holds?
Matt is an incredibly loyal, caring and compassionate man and he never hesitates to make whatever sacrifice he needs in order to be there for Lucy. He is reluctant to push her to remember what they shared but he finally attempts to jog her memory. Matt's efforts to re-create the pivotal moments in their relationship are bittersweet and poignant especially once Lucy realizes just how confused her memories are. Matt is deeply in love with Lucy, but will his patience run out once he learns the truth about what she has been doing behind his back?
The Life Lucy Knew is an emotional novel with a clever storyline and interesting characters. Some of Lucy's decisions are exasperating but understandable as she tries to make peace with everything that has happened to her. Karma Brown brings the novel to a heartfelt and somewhat unexpected conclusion that will absolutely delight readers.
mariskyrinsarker's review against another edition
3.0
A pretty interesting book about false memories and dealing with them and other people's reactions to the character misremembering things.
The ending was rather abrupt and kinda out of nowhere, considering where Lucy had left things in the previous chapter. Still a good and very quick read.
The ending was rather abrupt and kinda out of nowhere, considering where Lucy had left things in the previous chapter. Still a good and very quick read.
labonneville's review against another edition
3.0
I didn’t really like that the story was about Lucy hitting her head and waking up with made up memories.
thebookishlibrarian's review against another edition
5.0
Lucy Sparks wakes up in a hospital after hitting her head to find that most of her memories are a lie. She wonders why her husband is nowhere to be seen, and is horrified when her parents tell her that she’s not actually married. The wedding and marriage that live in her head are examples of what her doctors call false memories, things that she makes up to fill the gaps after her coma. She was in fact engaged at one time, but it was broken off years earlier. She now has a boyfriend, Matt, with whom she lives, but remembers him presently only as a colleague. Lucy is very confused as Matt seems to be a nice person, but she realizes she’s still in love with her ex-fiance. Will she get over her feelings for him and stay with Matt? Or is she destined to be alone after this tragic accident?
nicmedia123's review against another edition
4.0
This was another take on the amnesiac forgetting the love of her life and everything that she ever knew. Lucy believes that her ex fiancee is her husband, and the man she truly loves is just her faithfully responsible co-worker. The author poignantly tells the story of what happens when everything you know is not what is true. Lucy must deal with the conflicting emotions as she struggles to remember the true memories in her mind, and not the ones that she has created as a result of her head injury - some of her memories have been implicitly altered so that she believes she actually married a man she broke up with. The reader follows Lucy and is kept in suspense about what her next move might be - will she continue her romance with faithful Matt or return to Daniel - who she believes is the love of her life? Fans of romance will enjoy the extra twist to a standard romantic tale because there is a dash of suspense and uncertainty that will keep them guessing about the life Lucy knew.
thuglibrarian's review against another edition
5.0
On an icy winter day, Lucy Sparks slipped, fell, and hit her head. When she awakens, she still has her memory, but it's the wrong memory. It's still her memory, the same people etc, but as in an alternative universe, the facts are wrong. She 'knows' that she married her fiance Daniel but people are telling her that she is wrong... instead they insist that she's with Matt. Would they lie to her and why, and more importantly can she trust herself?
This is a book that you read and think that you know where it's going, only to find that you aren't where you thought you were.
Similar to Jodi Picoult.
I read an advance copy and was not compensated.
This is a book that you read and think that you know where it's going, only to find that you aren't where you thought you were.
Similar to Jodi Picoult.
I read an advance copy and was not compensated.
kristenlesperance's review against another edition
3.0
I originally marked this book as a 4 star book but the more I discussed the book the more I found it bland. It had a good storyline but I felt that the story fell flat at times. I also didnt appreciate the random page fillers that seemed to not really add anything to the story.