Book Review: Remember Me?

Fiction: Remember Me?
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Genres: Romance, Comedy, Chicklit
Rating: 3/5

I haven't had such fun reading a book in a long time - especially staying up until 2am to finish it. I had expected Remember Me? to be something of the usual, something that mirrored her Shopaholic series, in which the main character carries on as if she wants to buy the whole world.

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I liked Alexia from Remember Me? immensely. She's a girl who suffers from a car crash and wakes up without any idea of what's happened in the last three years. One word: amnesia. The interesting take on this is that the last thing she rememers is that she'd been a pretty average girl with a pretty average job in a pretty average life.

However, waking up in a private chamber of a London hospital, she realizes that she'd changed immensely. She is now two sizes smaller with a beautiful, toned body and gorgeous, unbelievable clothes that she had no way in hell of paying for before. But the most surprising thing of all is that big, fat diamond ring and gold wedding band with her intials carved into it. Yep- she's married; and to a Greek God no less. In three years, she'd gone from nobody to someone with a perfect life.

As great as things may seem, her ventures into this brand new world makes her feel as if she's living the life of a different person. In the fab and glam of it all, she seems to have lost herself. No one's able to answer her questions until, that is, she meets a guy who seems to know everything aout her. Suddenly, nothing's normal. Why in the world does he feel like her other half when she's already married?

Remember Me? is poignant in its narrative of finding an anchor in a lost and almost senseless world. The highlight of the novel is the heroine's road to self-discovery, complimented by the gradual collection of new memories and at the same time mourning the old.

Kinsella was able to bring to life the hopes and fears of an individual with astounding success, and the exploration of human emotions is something that hasn't graced her other works in such a realistic style. I was truly touched by the end of the book, and the only upsetting aspect was that there wasn't more for me to read. This is without doubt a wonderful literary escape.

Ps. Why is there a sunflower on the front cover, you ask? It is the cutest thing ever, and I was so touched by it that I felt like I was falling in love with a fictional character...

You've got to find out yourself!