Book Review: Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

In Remember Me?, Chick Lit author, Sophie Kinsella does a thorough job of placing our heroine, Lexi Smart, in a very unique and interesting situation. This average working girl, with “snaggle teeth and fizzy hair” accidentally falls down running in the rain and the year is 2004. The bump on her head causes “retrograde amnesia,” therefore, poor Lexi cannot remember a three year chunk of her life after the 2004 fall, due to the fact she was in yet another accident, three years later, which left her with a similar concussion in 2007. Confused? You won’t be with Kinsella’s lighthearted tone, and appealing characters to clarify our heroine’s dilemma. Lexi cannot remember one major event of her new “Cinderella-like” life, not her meteoric rise up the corporate ladder at her company, her marriage to “perfect husband,” Eric, or her transformation into a “swan” from a “snaggletooth.” Lexi does realize with the loss of her two dress sizes and “quaint single-girl” apartment, she also lost her three best friends as well.
Half way through Lexi’s quandary enters Jon, Eric’s architect for his building development company. Not remembering any detail of her last three years, Lexi must make a decision about the true love Jon is professing to her, or try even harder to fit into her new ultra-elite lifestyle and career. The reader truly is entertained and fighting for Lexi to make the “right” decisions and be true to her values and who she really is on the inside. Remember Me? is a great beach read for the summer, to take you away from real life. - Kathy (Hamilton)