I absolutely adored this book and I’m so sad that it’s over! It was one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read and the writing was so captivating. The characters were so interesting and real and I couldn’t help caring about his their stories would end. I honestly cannot wait to read more from this author, they are definitely one to watch!

I really enjoyed this read, right from the start I just fell in love with everything about it but especially the characters. The book is really well written too

Oh so beautiful. This one made my chest hurt in places. What an incredible read.
There were areas where I felt a little "meh" (Ryan, parents) , but for the most past I loved this.

This is the first book that I have read by this author and it didn’t disappoint.

It was well written, emotional and real which made it enjoyable to read.

Hard topics such as amnesia and dealing with your sexuality were addressed in a sensitive and endearing way and I think a lot of people could relate to this.

I enjoyed seeing how the love story panned out between the 2 main characters, Stevie and Nora.

I really enjoyed this story for a variety or reasons, the narrative, characters (especially the primaries), the writing, the writing, and the writing! Anyone who enjoys any of the above will be fully satisfied after turning the final page. I sincerely hope Alyson continues producing such fine work - this one should make her feel mighty proud!

Stevie and Nora were in love, and then there was an accident and Stevie fell and lost her memories of the last two years or so. Which is less than ideal since a lot happened in those two years and no one else except Nora and her knew about their relationship.
After getting out of the hospital, Stevie can't figure out why everything feels so off. Her best friends are not what they remembered and even her relationship with her mom has changed. And then, there's Nora, the stranger who saved her but who she can't help but feel a connection to.

This was very beautiful and I cried and I loved it. The characters were great and flawed and captivating. I really enjoyed getting to know them throughout the book. The plot really had me in a choke hold and I just loved it from beginning to end. Things I knew were gonna happen still made me gasp when they did and I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I wasn't sure if I was gonna be into the whole amnesia story but it was so beautifully crafted, I was taken from the first chapter to the last.
Truly just a great book and I'm really looking forward to reading more books by Alyson Derrick.

This story was sweet and heartwarming but is also real in the scenarios it's portraying.

Know how it feels to be different, this book made me feel less alone. Like every thing was meant to happen and it happens for a reason.

I love Alyson Derrick books and will be looking out for more books as I love this and she gets the girl!

This book was beautiful. The ending was perfect and made me cry so hard. I loved it so much. It was a wonderful story of sapphic love against all odds. Against a backdrop of racism and homophobia, it's about two girls tragically separated by memory loss and having to find each other again.

I wouldn't like to speak about the medical stuff in the book. I don't know how accurate it is for memory loss and recovery, but it was a really interesting plot device and made for a really good story. It was in a way a coming of age story because it was her finding out that she was gay all over again.

The only thing that made me pause was the fact that she was Asian. I loved the representation as it's always important to see in all sorts of books, but there was no explanation of her background. I was confused as to whether her parents or her mother were Asian or if she was adopted, because it felt like they fit into the town and there was no talk of them facing racial abuse or anything. It just left me confused about how it all fitted together.

I really enjoyed it though and would definitely read it again!

I usually find that the amnesia trope is overdone and tiring to read. But this one wasn't, and maybe it was because it was a sapphic romance and the whole plotline of her figuring her life out again was almost secondary, even though it was central to everything.
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It might be that I like the author's writing style and their way of storytelling, but I loved this from quite early on. And I've loved all the other books they've written.
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I'm not really the kind of person to laugh about something in a book unless it's either really funny, or it catches me off guard. And any book that managed to get me laughing makes it a very good book, which makes this a really good book.
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I finished this book only a couple of days after I started it, and it was heartbreaking in the best way possible.
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Thank you to NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was an enjoyable read, with just enough tension and angst amidst a generally light-hearted story to give it some depth to get your teeth into. When we first meet Stevie, she's planning to escape from her small town and conservative parents with her secret girlfriend of two years, Nora. But an accident wipes out her memories of their time together, and the secrets that shrouded her relationship means nobody around her can remind her of what she's lost.

While I don't know how realistic the nature of this memory loss might be (though it sounds plausible; I've heard of people losing chunks of time like this), I thought it was handled well, especially Stevie's initial fear and grief, realising she's lost a big chunk of her high school years and her emotional development. It might have been nice to see more regression in her emotional maturity, reflecting that she's lost this, but on the whole, I thought that was balanced nicely.

The memory loss plotline also allowed us to see the established relationship between Nora and Stevie, almost in retrospect -- we weren't there when they fell for each other, nor are we seeing them fall for each other in real time, but gradually gaining insights into how that happened in the past. It was a variant on more chronologically conventional love stories that helped strengthen my belief in their relationship, while providing some real speed bumps along the way for them to have to navigate.

Although I'm glad that things worked out for the characters in the end, I wasn't 100% convinced by the resolution of the story, in terms of how well it tracked with Stevie's parents' earlier behaviour, but I was glad for a hopeful ending, so I'm not, like, mad about it.

This book was so heartbreaking to read but in such a good way. I've not read many books with the amnesia trope but I thought this book handled it really well, and it was so sad to read about this girl forgetting the love of her life - I just can't even imagine what her girlfriend was going through. But I loved that there were letters from the love interest to the main character woven throughout the book so that we COULD see some of her perspective on the situation.

Stevie and Nora are living in a horrifically homophobic, racist town, that they were planning to move away from before Stevie's accident, so there is a lot of content for racism and homophobia, as well as abuse and manipulation. It's not a light read, considering that it's pretty short, but I thought the author handled the topics covered really carefully.

It was a really emotional read, but I do wish it had been even 50 pages longer, so that the ending could have not felt quite so rushed, or that we could have seen more of Stevie's childhood so that we could connect to her relationship with her parents more.

This was a really wonderful story though, and I'm really looking forward to seeing people discover themselves in these characters, and to see what this author brings out next!

Forget Me Not follows 18 year old Stevie and her girlfriend Nora, during their final summer before college. After dating in secret for two years, they are now just weeks away from executing their plan to leave their small conservative town for California. However when Stevie gets in an accident, she loses all her memories from the past two years, including coming to terms with her sexuality, falling in love with Nora and their plan to leave. Nora is torn between letting Stevie reconnect with her family and friends she was distant from, and telling her the truth she may not be ready to face yet.

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Wow, I really loved this book. I knew pretty early on I was going to fall in love with it as the writing and storytelling was just beautiful. The image of Nora pulling Stevie out of the ravine and carrying her to safety was enough to grip me. You could feel the love between these two girls so clearly, and could equally feel the hurt they were both going through in the aftermath of the accident. While Stevie was struggling with the idea of her memories never returning and realising her closest friends and family were lying to her, Nora faced Stevie potentially never remembering her or the love they shared.

I loved the lightness and friendship Ryan brought to Stevie (when she wasn’t trying to force herself to like him). He was also just looking for someone who made him feel less alone and was the friend Stevie needed, giving her the encouragement to accept who she was and be with Nora.

It was a pretty heavy read, not only with the memory loss aspect but also with the realities of being Asian and queer in a small rural conservative town. Stevie and Ryan both faced overt racism and micro aggressions from their “friends”, classmates and wider community, who often brushed it off as joking around. Nora faced a horrific response to her sexuality, being physically assaulted by her mum then kicked out of her home. As for Stevie’s parents homophobia, I feel it was resolved a little too quickly at the end. While her memory loss made her unaware she was gay, her mum knew and still actively encouraged her to date Ryan and stick it out with him despite her reservations. This really stuck with me throughout for how horrible it was. I am glad she got to leave town knowing her parents still loved her, and that she would always be welcomed back, but their conflict was resolved very quickly.

Overall, I really loved this book and think it will stay with me. Their love for each other was portrayed so well, and I can’t stop thinking about how Nora managed to save Stevie. While not every book needs to be or should be adapted, I would love to see this as a movie. I feel like it would translate so well on the big screen. I’d definitely recommend this, and cannot wait to pick up a copy when it’s released.

Stevie and Nora have one of those special kinda of relationships that you just know will last forever when they finally get together. They have been together now for two years, but have had to hide their relationship form all of the moronic homophobic people in town. I mean love is love, am I right. Love is so precious and pure that it should be able to be shouted about, be celebrated and be rejoiced about. People need to learn this and get over themselves to be honest. Anyway I digress. Stevie and Nora have a plan a plan to leave town and start a fresh new life together somewhere they can be free to shout their love from the rooftops. But then the worst happens Stevie had a really bad fall and the last two years of her life are completely wiped from her mind. Stevie doesn't remember Nora, their love or their plan to escape town. All she knows is that there is a boy she is supposed to like, but doesn't understand why she feels absolutely nothing every time they are together. However fate has other plans for her and Nora and soon brings them together again. They start to fall in love again and the obstacles appear again. Will they be able to escape this time round or has fate other ideas for them.

Forget me not is a really beautiful book a out love. I felt the love, I felt the obstacles and I felt the heartbreak

With the lost memory of Stevie, Nora is on a mission to try and help Stevie to remember her, this book gives you strength and romance and true eye opener of what people go through in real life

Stevie and Nora are forever. Having been together for two years, they’ve grown used to hiding their relationship from their homophobic town. They even have a plan. A plan to get out of there permanently and start their lives in somewhere they don’t have to hide. But then Stevie has a fall. And the last two years are wiped from her mind. There is no Nora. There is no leaving their town, Wyatt. There is, however, the boy Stevie supposedly likes, even though every time they’re together she feels nothing. There’s the local university she’s due to start at in the fall. There are her friends, however estranged they’ve become. And the parents she no longer feels she knows. And… Nora. The girl who saved her. The girl Stevie can’t stay away from for reasons unknown. Through a summer fast drawing to a close, Stevie and Nora grow closer—again—and Stevie starts to fall in love—again. But there are still obstacles in their way and it’s unclear whether they’ll get their happily ever after.

FORGET ME NOT was so perfect. Five stars, no doubt about it. I don’t have any complaints, whatsoever. I didn’t quite enjoy SHE GETS THE GIRL because the writing felt stinted and the characters didn’t feel as close as they could’ve felt, but this was the total opposite. From the beginning, I was hooked on the idea of Stevie and Nora’s relationship. I flew through it, feeling all of the heartache and the confusion when Stevie forgot Nora, all of the tender love they showed to one another, and how, despite it all, they wouldn’t give up on one another. Even if Stevie didn’t entirely know why she didn’t want to give up on Nora.

The ending was my favourite. The scene when they’re about to board the plane simultaneously broke my heart and then mended it back together with duct tape. It was perfect.

I loved how determined Stevie was, how wonderful of a friend Ryan was, how heart warming and kind Nora was. The pieces of this book all fell together perfectly, solidifying into a lesbian romance that I am not going to forget for a long while.

Thank you, NetGalley, for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

I really loved this book. I loved the main characters and I loved the story and how it all played out. Really lovely stuff

I adored this book.

It was heartbreaking and heartwarming in equal measure.

I loved seeing Stevie and Nora's story play out and them finding their way back to each other.

3.5 stars.