I do think I would’ve enjoyed this much more if we’d seen some flashbacks of them falling in love and their relationship developing, though.

This also had grumpy meets sunshine and a bit of hate to love trope—both perfectly blended together. Also, this is said to be an enemies to lovers and I wish that had lasted a little longer as well as getting more moments of their past together but nonetheless still very much enjoyed the moments there is of both. This ARC was provided by the publisher as part of the Colored Pages blog tour in exchange for an honest review. 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. The drama behind the celebrity wedding in the present tense, the visuals my mind conjured when the floral meetings were described, and Elliot just being *cough* Elliot were all strong aspects of the novel.Suddenly, Stevie finds herself in a life she doesn’t quite understand, one where she’s estranged from her parents, drifting away from her friends, lying about the hours she works, dating a boy she can’t remember crushing on, and headed towards a future that isn’t at all what her fifteen-year-old self would have envisioned. I'm not usually a fan of the amnesia 'trope', but in this instance it worked much better than I was expecting.

Small-town Pennsylvania is vividly portrayed, the complex emotions Stevie feels for her hometown becoming viscerally relatable. Also worth noting that the word lesbian never appears anywhere in the book, despite both the MC and LI being lesbians. Elliot and Ama had so few interactions in the present, but to be honest, the first ones had me so giddy, and I was getting so much tension on their behalf!

Second chance romance trope is one of my many favourite trope because of angsty and heart-aching moments between the main characters. It takes until about 80% in the book to catch us up to speed fully on the past, and the first half of this I was so on board for.

Back home to Devon and into a kayak, I travel down a swollen, autumnal river to try and understand why, in the face of climate change, the epic salmon run might become a feat of the past. They’re both desperate to get out from under the thumb of both of their families – for similar (and also wildly different) reasons. The blue-and-yellow tassel off Nora’s graduation cap from Wyatt High, the local public school that’s about ten minutes from the Catholic school I attended. The present timeline felt like it was only about wedding planning and Ama stressing over wedding planning.

It was really cute, don't get me wrong, but both timelines—past and present—were a little rushed and didn't have enough moments leading up to them falling for each other. what i find outstanding about 'Forget Me Not' is how the past chapters retracing the protagonists’ relationship were mainly recounted from the main male character point of view and how the present chapters were transcribed from the female protagonist’s perspective only. 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. They carved out a space for themselves but everything comes tumbling down when Stevie takes a terrible fall. But Ama, having seen her mother’s marriages (yes, plural) continuously fail, never saw anything close to a commitment in her future.

Between them pushing compulsive heterosexuality by convincing Stevie that she had a crush on a guy named Ryan and turning a blind eye to racist comments directed towards Stevie as an Asian-American, their cruelty was evident. They are the ones who, thread by daily thread, weave a tapestry of gratitude and wonder throughout their lives. I had a really great and the best time reading this book with you and obsessing over Elliot—his grumpiness and his tattoos. If you’re looking for a fast paced read that has some incredible steam and a swoon worthy MMC, give this one a try in July!I was nervous that the conflict would’ve been too melodramatic or unreasonable, but it didn’t feel that way to me.