I loved this book and look forward to more from this author in the future.

Ama is a wedding planner who’s doesn’t believe that weddings last. Elliott is a florist and Ama’s ex boy friend who she hasn’t seen for two years. They’re both hired to work / plan the biggest weddings of their careers what could possibly happen…

The story is told mainly by Ama but with a couple of chapters from Elliott on how they met, got together and split up. Full of likeable characters and a predictable ish but lovely plot, this is the perfect book for those who love a rom com .

"Forget Me Not" by Julie Soto is a hauntingly beautiful love story. Soto's lyrical prose captures the depths of emotion and memory, making it an unforgettable and deeply moving read.

Just a perfect book for me. Loved it so so much.
I herad such a good things about this one, and I fully agree

5 stars read

Welcome to the second chance romance for Ama & Elliot. This book has everything you might want from a romance book. Ama is a wedding planner who does not want to get married. Jaded by her mother’s numerous marriages and hurting her past love, Ama puts her energy toward her business. Elliot, on the other hand, has learned to love the flower business he was forced into taking on. Both of them, successful in their work, are thrown together by a celebrity couple who wants to work with them for their upcoming marriage. The problem is Elliot was Ama’s past love.

Julie Soto gives us a fun, interesting, and swoon worthy book. I loved the characters and became invested in their relationship. The supporting characters were also quirky and interesting keeping me reading to the end. I would definitely recommend this book for those who are looking for a sweet, sexy, romance read.

Many thanks to @netgalley and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction for the opportunity to read this ARC for my honest review.

Thank you so much to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC! I still can’t believe this is a debut novel!

This is a contemporary romance following Ama, an ambitious wedding planner who has landed the wedding of her dreams. Her favourite influencer is getting married and she wants Ama to plan and design the whole thing alongside being on a show to cover the wedding. Ama is overjoyed because this wedding could get her the coverage she needs to take her business to the next level. The catch? The brides only want one florist and that florist just happens to be Elliot, Ama’s ex who she hasn’t seen for two years after a very messy breakup. Can they put aside their differences and pull off the wedding of the year? And have the sparks truly disappeared?

This was fantastic! It’s told in dual POV but Elliot’s parts are from the past so you get to see how he and Ama first met and then what ultimately ended things. I got married last year and I so wish I had a wedding planner like Ama! I could feel the stress! I’m actually attending a friend’s wedding tomorrow so this was the perfect read for right now! It’s very wedding focused which I personally loved and found incredibly interesting. Ama is someone who doesn’t believe in marriage so that created a lot of interesting conversations around marriage and commitment and whether we NEED to get married for a relationship to last forever. My personal opinion on that is no by the way but I personally wanted to get married and so did my husband so that’s what works for us.

The spicy scenes were on point and I could feel the sizzling tension between Ama and Elliot not just in the present day but in the past as well. Whitney is a horrible human being can I just say, I wanted to yell at Ama to realise what was happening but I also know what it’s like when you want to see the best in someone and you don’t want to believe that they don’t have your best interests at heart. The wedding taking place was for two women which I was really excited to see and it was good representation as well. There was no homophobia in this book just to clarify as unfortunately a lot of LGBTQ+ books do have homophobia in them. I loved that the author didn’t focus on the fact that they were a same sex couple because we need to normalise this! Us LGBTQ+ people aren’t going anywhere folks (and we’ve always been here just saying)!

Overall this was a fantastic romance book with a lot of commentary on marriage and commitment and the reasons that people get married. If you love an angsty second chance romance you need to check this out! It released on 1st July so you can read it now! I will definitely be reading this author’s next work.

Personally, I didn’t finish this book as I just wasn’t very invested in the story or the romance between the two mcs.

I’d definitely still recommend this to others I think would enjoy it though!

Forget Me Not is a sweet second chance romance about a wedding planner who swears she’ll never walk down the aisle herself and the florist who might be her perfect match. I liked so much of this story… there were some lovely moments between the two leads and the author writes great banter.

Unfortunately, the editing was not great. There were too many storylines related to the leads’ families that didn’t get resolved in the end, and it felt like pieces of those stories got cut from the third act, but not from the first or second acts. The book would have been better if it had just focused on the romance.

Still, it was a good read and I’d recommend it to anyone in the mood for a wedding planner romance. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the free copy to read and review!

First of all, thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for this ebook in exchange for an honest review.

Forget Me Not is Julie Soto's debut standalone romance novel published in 2023 in which we follow Ama, a wedding planner, as she is forced to work with Elliot, her ex-boyfriend and a florist, for a celebrity wedding.

I chose to read this book based on the cover, and let's briefly talk about it. I have a theory: if a romance book has a cartoon cover, it is going to be good. And this novel was no exception to this rule. Although I have to admit that I love HarperCollins's cover, I am even more in love with the cover from Forever where you can see Elliot (the MMC) and Ama (the FMC) in all their glory.
That being said, let's discuss the actual book. The plot was good, and I have to admit that at the beginning of the book, I was kind of not feeling it because I am not a fan of weddings. However, that quickly changed as I read the novel: the sentences were well written, easy to read and understand, the main characters were fun and adorable in their own way, and the plot kept getting interesting.I also loved the fact that the author included some flower references in the text such as the title (which can be interpreted as "don't forget me" and as the flower also called myosotis), Elliot's tattoo and Ama's full name.

I would highly recommend this book if you love cute romance with some spice in it!

"𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊. 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒, 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓉𝑒. 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝒻 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝑒𝓍𝓉𝒾𝓃𝒸𝓉."

Ama has been in the Sacramento wedding industry for a number of years - first working for a more well-known planner, then branching out on her own. Elliott is a florist who also works the circuit. It's almost inevitable that the two will get together - and they do. But it goes horribly wrong...

Now, a number of years later, commitment-phobe Ama has just landed the influencer wedding of dreams. And there's only one florist the brides want - Elliott Bloom. Can Ama and Elliott put the past behind them to make this wedding perfect and get the publicity they both need to take their businesses to the next level? As the wedding day approaches, we go back and forth with a dual POV to find out what really happened between Elliott and Ama - and if they can work together one last time.

I really enjoyed this, for the most part. I liked how Elliott appeared to be a stereotypical grumpy moody git, but was actually quite emotional. I liked how Ama was determined to become a success and how she wasn't afraid to go out on her own. I liked the banter, I liked the spicy scenes, and I even liked the wedding and event management content (this was a surprise to me, it's something I don't usually gravitate towards). It read like a fun, heartfelt, romantic movie (think Bride Wars, 27 Dresses, that kinda thing) and I read it in two sittings.

There were a couple of little things I could have done without - the 63 mentions of donuts being one, but I get that it was "her thing". I also didn't really get the scene with the cellist, which seemed really out of place - but maybe we'll see him again?! In the author's notes at the end she mentioned how about 75% of the places mentioned in the book really exist, and that she wanted to write a book with a main character who could achieve her dream without having to leave her hometown. I think she did a wonderful job making the town come to life, it was a real love letter to the place and when I looked it up after reading it was exactly how I had pictured it. Really liked this one, I'll be looking out for Julie Soto!

Thank you to HarperCollins UK for the ARC via Netgalley.

Thanks to netgalley for the chance to read this book.

Ama is a wedding planner who does not believe in people living happily ever after.

She lands the job of a lifetime and of her dreams (wedding planner for a glamorous instagram star). The florist for the wedding is Elliot Bloom her ex whose heart she broke and hasn’t spoken to since.

Can they put their past behind them and get through the wedding without either killing or kissing one another?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Die Hochzeitsplanerin und der Florist - ein Lovers-to-Enemys-to-Lovers-again-Roman

Ama und Elliot haben eine bewegte gemeinsame Vergangenheit und obwohl sie beide im Hochzeitsbusiness arbeiten, haben sie sich seit einigen Jahren nicht gesehen. Doch dann erhält Ama den größten Auftrag ihrer Karriere, jedoch nur unter der Bedingung wieder mit Elliot zusammen zu arbeiten. Sie sagt zu, versucht jedoch professionellen Abstand zu Elliot zu halten. Aber so einfach ist das nicht.

Insgesamt habe ich recht schnell in die Geschichte, die abwechselnd aus Amas und Elliots Sicht erzählt wird, reingefunden. Nach und nach erfährt der Leser mehr über die Vorgeschichte der beiden, während sich die eigentliche Geschichte entspinnt.
Der Schreibstil ist gut lesbar und alle Figuren, nicht nur die Hauptfiguren, meiner Mutter nach gut dargestellt.
Am Ende fehlte mir nur ein Buch mehr Tiefe, besonders was die Elliots Gefühle und deren Umschwung angeht. Ansonsten hatte ich einige sehr gemütliche Lesestunden mit dem Buch.

This book was absolutely incredible. One of the best romcoms of 2023, for me personally.

Ama and Elliot’s POV’s were so beautiful blended to give you just enough and rhe right times to make sure you had the best experience understanding their story.

The romance in this killed me, Julie Soto mixes all the best bits of reality with all the heart-eye moments we all escape to romantic literature for.

10/10 absolutely

I'm so sorry for reading this late for two reasons: 1) because i didn't review this on time and 2) because holy freaking **** this book is amazing and I wish I had read it a thousand years ago!! I've heard everyone talking about this book and recommending it but none of the reviews I've seen have captured just how good this book is. I was on the edge of my chair waiting to find out more, waiting for them to glimpse at each other once more. I laughed, I kicked my feet in the air, I giggled, i CRIED, I yelled, I gasped. It did it all. The last line had me crying. The tattoos had me crying. THE INSTAGRAM LIVE HAD ME GASPING. I just didnt expect anything and my mind was fully blown away. Holy freaking amaze balls.

This book was PERFECT! It had everything I was looking for in a romance book: dual POV, enemies to lovers, slow burn, grumpy, the hurt/comfort trope, he falls first! Plus, I don't usually go for second chance romances BUT this one had a dual timeline so we got to watch our two main characters fall in love twice!

Forget Me Not follows two exes: Ama, a wedding planner who doesn't believe in marriage, and Elliot, a hopelessly romantic florist. When Ama and Elliot are given the opportunity to work on a huge wedding, with the promise of lots of exposure for both their businesses, they are forced to put their differences aside for the sake of their careers. But working together brings up lots of old feelings and memories that they would both rather leave in the past.

As I mentioned before, Forget Me Not has a dual timeline, with Ama's POV being used to tell us what's happening in the present and Elliot's POV recapping what went wrong in the past. The changing between both timelines kept me engaged for the entire book, and I felt that the author picked the perfect times to reveal things from the past in order to explain the repercussions in the present. I found it really easy to root for both Elliot and Ama, which meant I felt real pain when things went wrong for them. But I was also able to celebrate with them so easily when things went right.

This book was honestly an absolute pleasure to read and I loved every second of it! I would highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys contemporary romance and I am anxiously awaiting whatever Julie Soto comes out with next!

I love books like this.

Funny easy to read.
Romantic

This story has all of this. Great characters
A great beach read 5⭐️

I enjoyed this summer rom com, which was based on the story of a wedding planner having to work with her ex boyfriend on the wedding of the year. Spicy in places, it was an easy, fun read and I would recommend it for your place on the beach!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Ama is a wedding planner who has just landed the biggest job of her career. The only downside is having to work alongside Elliott who she had a romantic interlude with several years ago. Oh and also her former boss who is intent on making things difficult for her. Will Ama pull off the wedding of her career and make up for the past or will things go horribly wrong? A steamy novel that kept me engaged!

I was hooked from the first chapter and devoured this spicy, cute romantic novel. I have already recommended to friend. I can’t wait to see what Julie Soto writes next

FORGET ME NOT is a lovely, heartwarming tale of second chance love and redemption.

Julie Soto's debut tells the story of Ama and Elliot, wedding planner and florist who fell in love and crashed and burned two years ago. Now, tasked with working together on a glamorous wedding, they get a second chance at love. I loved how Soto jumped back and forth between Ama and Elliot's first chance at love, and modern day. I really enjoyed the more minor characters, as well as Ama and Elliot's growth and character development. Overall, this was a compelling romance novel that I would recommend to romance fans, particularly fans of second chance romance.

Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction, HarperCollins for the ARC which I received in exchange for my honest review.

I'm not big into romance but this concept seemed cute so I gave it a go and it was really nice and relaxing to read. I liked the characters a lot and it was a bit different from any romance I've read before so it was good to read.

The fact that they were exes was what interested me. It was good in some ways but bad in others. It was good because it meant that a lot of conflict had happened in the past, so I could relax and not worry too much because the characters weren't together. But because of knowing something big had happened in the past and also because of Elliots grumpy attitude, I didn't warm to him very quickly and I wasn't that invested in them getting together.

There was also no honeymoon period. All the time they were together in the flashbacks, I was aware that something was about to happen and ruin it all and that also gave me trouble with investing. Obviously it's romance so I knew it would end happily, but that didn't give me any satisfaction.

Overall though it was a good romance. It did stuff different and most importantly it was something I could relax into and just read.