Pick Up Remember Me? Put Together By Sophie Kinsella Displayed As EPub
Line: “How long have I been awake Is it morning yet I feel so rough, What happened last night God my head hurts, ”
This was a super fun read as all of Kinsellas books are, Not too much brainpower needed, just a good time so if youre in the mood for chicklit it doesnt get much better than this,
REMEMBER ME was addictively hard to put down as well as LOL funny in places and I got sucked right into the chaos of the heroines life and the double romance.
Imagine not remembering that youre having an affair,
Lexi Smart is having a crappy night, in her words “On a scale of one to ten were talking a minus six.
And its not like I even have very high standards, ”
Standing in the rain after a night out clubbing with friends, Lexi just wants to find a taxi, get home and kick off her agonizing boots.
Yup, its been a crap day all right, her boyfriend Loser Dave stood her up and her secondrate job managed to screw her out of the Christmas bonus on a technicality.
Tomorrow promises to be even worse though, its her fathers funeral, Before she can moan about the state of her life any further Lexi tops the night off by slipping on the wet street and tumbling down a flight of stairs.
When Lexi wakes up shes in a London hospital, but hold on somethings a little offshes in a private room and her nails are manicured, her teeth are perfect guess they cant call her Snaggletooth anymore her body is toned and thin squeal and her handbag is Vuitton.
The nurse also mentioned that she was in a car accident in a Mercedes no less but Lexi cant drive and she definitely cant afford that car or that purse.
When her Mother and sister show up Lexi starts to panic because her mother looks strange and damn, whats happened to her little sister, shes all grown up
As the Doctors explain it Lexi is suffering from amnesia and is missing the lastyears of her life which would mean shes nowsob but its not all bad because somehow in that time shes married a hunky multimillionaire and become a cooperate big shot.
Apparently she now lives in a Kensington loft and has a personal assistant and a trainer and new puffy lips and a carb free diet and glamorous new friends what about her old friends and toast
Lexis got a ton of catching up to do if shes going to make this exciting new life work and she might just pull it off.
But she misses her friends they wont even talk to her anymore and toast sigh and cant understand how she become that bitch “The Cobra” at the office and this is all before Jon the architect shows up.
Yeah Jon, the guy shes supposedly having an affair with and is going to leave her husband for,
This book just hit the spot, Cheers
jbTypical Sophie Kinsella chick lit, pure candy fluff,
Lexi was a complete thicko, and it wasn't down to her amnesia, it was just her, It was impossible to believe she used to be some high flying, smart tough businesswoman when she acted like a foolof the time, She was also a flakey, irritating doormat, I kind of hated her but at the same time rooted for her purely because the friends/family she was surrounded by were a million times worse than her.
It was bizarre how Lexi constantly made out that being confident, focused, fit and healthy, and ambitious and driven at work were a bad thing I didn't get her attitude to all the positive changes she had made in her life.
She was totally daft, she wanted to be a respected boss, but at the same time wanted her workers to be her BFFs, She was like a child instead of a grown women, wanting everyone to like her and hang out with her, and was desperate to be loved by her workers, she cared more about that than actually being successful at her job.
The moral of the story was pretty much hard work and a serious attitude at work are bad and that women should be weak, lazy, silly, unhealthy fools for them to be happy.
Lexi's family were horrible, they had no compassion or care for anyone but themselves, Her sister was a spoilt, thieving brat who felt sorry for herself, and her mum was a total bitch who was more concerned about her dogs than her eldest daughter nearly dying and suffering from amnesia.
Neither of them supported her or looked out for her,
Hated Jon. If he was so in love with Lexi he would have cared more about her well being, he
was more interested in how her amnesia affected him than what she was going through.
I don't know why he was so angry and pouty at Lexi, it wasn't like she chose to have amnesia, he acted like she'd done something wrong by getting in a car accident and suffering amnesia.
If he had really cared about her he would have tried to help her and ease her into her new life,
Lexi's friends were total dicks, I don't know why she even bothered with them when they dropped her just because she was promoted and became their boss and actually did her job properly.
So because she didn't let her friends get away with walking all over her, they fucked off and left her on her own, I wanted Lexi to drop them as well for being such mean, petty cows, But the doormat carried on being a doormat,
This would usually be the time when I would ask the largely rhetorical and semipathetic question, “Why do I keep reading Sophie Kinsella books” Well, this time the answer is blatantly obviousthe plot of this one involves amnesia, yo, and I can never resist amnesiaand the question is kind of unfair.
Because this wasnt so badfar less annoying than the last few sitelink Shopaholic books, Kinsellas strength has always been her ability to create an amusing, fastpaced narrative, and coupled with the amnesia plot, I really didnt want to put this book down.
However, it also shares many of the same irritating traits as Kinsellas other novels, The protagonist is once again a flighty, shallow woman who spends most of the book flailing and helpless, wriggling out of scrapes mostly through luck and/or the help of a strong, powerful man.
Also, Kinsella really has no idea what it means to be poor, Not only are these novels full of rich people, the “poor” characters still have large country houses but they smell kind of funny! or can afford their own flats in London.
Uhhuh. I wish I had your problems, ladies,
For what this was, it was fun enough, Actually, in some ways its becoming funnier in retrospect, because Im realizing what the plot reminded me of, In Remember Me,yearold Lexi wakes up after receiving a bump on the head to discover that shes actually a very different and successfulyearold version of herself whos lost four years of her memory after a car accident.
Which brings to mind a book I read as a teenager, sitelink The Other Side of Dark by sitelink Joan Lowery Nixon, in whichyearold Stacy wakes up after a fouryear coma to solve a murder and embark on a vaguely squicky romance with ayearold.
Mostly I remember the latter book due to its having one of the most unintentionally hilarious last paragraphs ever: “My cheek glows from the warmth of his skin through his shirt, and I can hear the steady beat of his heart.
I put my arms around him, Im Stacy McAdams. Im seventeen. And Im definitely in the right body!” Ahahahahaha, I guess we should all be glad that in Remember Me, Lexi merely engages in some rather embarrassing activities involving muffins,
Since this review has clearly descended into tangent city, Id also like to call attention to something that was in no way Kinsellas fault, but which made me want to laugh/cry almost as much as Stacys selfaffirmations.
Dear American publishers of English novels: We, your readers, are not idiots, We can figure out that, if a novel is set in London, “football” means the sport with the round ball and “crisps” are not some unfathomable food, even more impossible to decode than this “Philosophers Stone” Ive heard stories of.
We might, in fact, be reading this book set in London in part to soak up the English atmosphere and indulge our Anglophilia, So you are in fact helping no one when you take a manuscript from across the pond and do a find/replace on all the “British” terms, leaving you with a long scene that involves your heroine making repeated and unintentionally comic reference to a “packet of chips.
” Yes, thank you for clarifying that the characters did not just purchase a plastic bag of French fries from a gas station however, youve now got them sounding like poor confused souls with horrible midAtlantic accents.
NO ONE SAYS PACKET OF CHIPS, Americans say bag of chips, English people say packet of crisps, Please choose one or, better yet, LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE, Next thing you know all novels will take place in North Generica, because god forbid readers be exposed to something unfamiliar or spend half a second feeling CONFUSED.
/rant
So annnnnnnywaylike I said, way way back in my first paragraph, this was actually pretty fun and diverting, Much better than the later Shopaholic books, and a perfectly decent beach or plane read, Or in my case, couch and bathtub read, If youre in need of some froth, you could do a lot worse, After all, this is froth WITH BONUS AMNESIA, Sophie Kinsella é Sophie Kinsella a rainha do chicklit! Os seus livros divertemme como ninguém se bem que entre todos os livros únicos da autora, este é capaz de ser o mais fraquinho Agora lembreime do "És capaz de guarda um segredo esse sim é o mais fraco dela! Ainda assim foi uma boa leitura de entretenimento.
A sinopse lança basicamente a premissa do livro, temos a Lexi que numa noite de farra com as amigas, cai ao tentar apanhar um táxi.
Na manhã seguinte, acorda numa cama de hospital, sem saber bem onde foi parar e porque é que as suas unhas estão perfeitas, os seus dentes arranjados e tem uma mala de uma marca cara.
Depressa descobre com muita confusão da sua parte que está no ano de, embora a última coisa que se lembre é a tal festa com as amigas que aconteceu em.
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O que posso dizer Foi uma leitura divertida! É que não há melhor adjectivo para classificar as leituras desta autora, A Lexi foi uma óptima protagonista mas como já tinha dito na minha opinião de "Tenho o teu númro" a Lexi não é diferente da Samantha ou da Becky, aliás para eu não andar a repetirme passo a citarme:
Para quem já é fã como eu, já sabe o que espera.
Não foi surpresa as mil e uma trapalhadas em que a protagonista Poppy se meteu, Eu já previa isso e realmente foi isso que aconteceu, As personagens principais que Sophie Kinsella caracterizam são sempre todas iguais, apenas mudam os nomes, São todas trapalhonas, divertidas e muito muito mas mesmo muito curiosas! E isso é meio caminho andado para divertir o leitor, É realmente um ponto positivo nas leituras desta autora e mais uma vez consegui arrancar boas gargalhadas com as aventuras da Poppy, O único defeito com a Poppy é que eu já vi esta personagem imensas vezes: emlivros da série Louca por Compras e na "Fada do Lar".
A Poppy não se distingue das outras protagonistas criadas pela autora, e embora seja uma personagem que divirta não lhe encontrei características inovadoras.
Neste caso basta trocarem a Poppy pela Lexi e a minha citação continua actual, E atenção que já li o "Tenho o teu númro" há dois anos e mesmo assim continuo a achar o mesmo das protagonistas que a Kinsella cria.
Não é que seja mau mas gostava de ver algo totalmente diferente por parte da autora, Talvez seja por isso que estou muito curiosa em ler o seuº livro youngadult, só para ver se a protagonista é também trapalhona e caricata.
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