Title: Remembering Us
Author: Stacey Lynn
Genre: New Adult Romance
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Hosted by: Love Between the Sheets Promotions
Synopsis
My life was perfectly mapped out for me since before the day I was born. I followed it, begrudgingly, because it’s what was expected.
And then one day, everything changed.
I woke up.
Different. Independent. Free from all the rules that had surrounded me.
Only I have no idea how I got to where I am. I have no memory of graduating college. No memory of Adam, the boyfriend I live with.
He loves me. And I love him. At least that’s what everyone says.
Except when my memories return to me as dreams, I see a different man than the one everyone claims is perfect for me.
He terrifies me. He makes my heart race and he makes me feel things I’ve never felt before.
I have no idea if I want to welcome the emotional roller-coaster that his piercing brown eyes and messy black hair puts me on every time I get a glimpse of him, or if I want to run back to the safe shelter of the scripted life-plan that used to be mine.
Excerpt
“So who was the girl?”
I stare at the ceiling, ignoring my therapist’s question. I hate this room. The walls are yellow but not a happy yellow. More like what I imagine baby poop looks like. And the chairs haven’t been updated since at least the sixties. By the time my sessions are done, the only thing that’s changed is the imprint of the scratchy fabric on the backs of my thighs.
Instead of answering the question, I count the ceiling tiles and multiply the rows. Ironic that I use math at a time like this when it was a math class that got me into all this trouble in the first place.
Reliving all these dreams every week is almost as exhausting as having them in the first place. Talking about them doesn’t make anything better.
“Adam?” Dr. Jamison has lost interest in my silence, again, and turns to him. She’s about fifty years old and her faded blonde hair that hangs down to her waist is always braided. She wears flowy, multi-colored hippy skirts and mismatched tops every time I see her. Sometimes I want to ask her if she has a joint, just to see what she says.
“Tina,” he says softly. I stare out the window at the playground that sits empty at the park across the street. “It was just Tina.”
“Who’s Tina?”
“She was a friend from home. We grew up next door to each other. She was in town that weekend visiting friends from our high school that went to college with me. That’s all.”
That’s all. It’s only two words, but they sound so condescending every time I hear them. It tells me that everything I’m either dreaming or remembering is made up or a half-truth of what the real life events actually were. It tells me that I’m being an idiot for believing them over my boyfriend who loves me. Or so I’ve been told.
Maybe I’d believe them if I remembered Adam at all.
Kota's Review
Remembering Us is the story of Amy, a young lady who fought against what was expected of her, to fulfil her own plan with her boyfriend by her side. However, after an accident, she has lost the last two years of her memory.
Given this not only is she struggling with her physical recovery, but her emotional journey is shrouded with uncertainty and doubt. Will she find her way back, and will it be back to the way it was before?
I have not read Stacey Lynn’s work before, and I must say that she writes in a tone and style that is very engaging for the reader. You are along for the journey, and the emotion is felt from the pages.
On the most part, the characters are well developed and the struggles they face are genuine, as are their fears. This story is narrated by Amy and therefore, given the gaps in her memory there are gaps in some of the characters back stories, I think I would have been more drawn to those characters is there was narration from other parties, but I understand why this was not the case.
Given this story was one of memory loss, and memory recollection, the reflection on events, and the lack of consistent timeframes worked well, I think Ms Lynn made this story flow as best as it possibly could given the character situation and the plot.
Remembering Us has no cliffhanger, and is a sweet novel that takes us on an endearing journey of love, trust, compassion, and patience.
On our rating scale 3 ½ = Good and 4 = Really Good. This sit in between both for me, in an ideal world I would rate this a 3.75… but that’s not how this works – so I will bump Remembering Us up to a 4. If you enjoy a story where love triumphs, then you should enjoy this tale.
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Purchase Links
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About the Author
Amazon Bestselling Author
Just One Song and Just One Week
Don't Lie to Me, released on July 15, 2013
Remembering Us - coming January, 2014
I am a wife, a mom, and a writer. I can often be found curled up on the couch with a good book, or obsessively eating Skittles in a very complicated and organized manner. No joke.
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