Forget Me Not: The hottest rom-com of 2023

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Forget Me Not is not a story about fixing the past, it's a story of rediscovery. It's about rediscovering what it means to love someone, and how to have dreams and the will to pursue them. I know this is a book I will hold closer to my heart with each day that passes. I hope you let it enter yours. This box. It’s the only physical evidence I have of our two-year relationship, everything precious to me. If someone found this, they’d know everything, which is exactly why it needs to stay hidden for the next two months.

Just a wonder of a book. Stevie and Nora are getting ready to ditch the small minds and the tiny aspirations of their small town. They’ve kept their love a secret but now it’s time to start the rest of their lives together. Unfortunately, an accident causes Stevie to lose memory of the last two years which means Nora is a stranger to her now. In this we follow Stevie and Nora. The two have been secretly dating for two years and are working on a plan to escape their suffocating small town and homophobic families. They carved out a space for themselves but everything comes tumbling down when Stevie takes a terrible fall. When she wakes up all her memories from the past two years are gone. Nora is devastated, but when Stevie inevitably finds her again, she’s determined to make her girlfriend fall for her all over again. I didn't expect this book to have such an emotional impact on me. I immediately fell in love with Calli, and when she described her struggles with Tourette syndrome, I sympathized with her. It frustrated me when her own mother was embarrassed by her and it just broke my heart when the kids in school laughed at Calli and called her a "freak" because of something she couldn't control.Forget Me Not” is approaching its first birthday, so I wanted to do a close reread in anticipation of the date. This is the third time I’ve read this book, and every single time I notice more and more layers to the story. Hands down, this is my favorite romance book. I recommend it every chance I get. Looking for a book that has forced proximity? Read “Forget Me Not”. Science fiction without aliens? Read “Forget Me Not”. Soulmates? “Forget Me Not”. Hottest smut? “Forget Me Not”. Endless angst? “Forget Me Not”. This reread just solidified my love for the story and Karissa’s writing; I will always be a fan of whatever she publishes. Also worth noting that the word lesbian never appears anywhere in the book, despite both the MC and LI being lesbians. Having read, and loved, She Gets The Girl – Alyson’s first book with her wife, Rachael, I was excited when I heard about her solo debut. Calliope June has Tourette’s Syndrome. She also has either an extremely heartbroken or extremely immature mother, I can’t decide which. I waffled between feeling sorry for her mom, or being absolutely furious with her. Regardless, Cassie has lived in 10 different places in the past 9 years. Every time her mom breaks up with a guy, they move. With no warning. While Callie recognizes that her mom loves her, she also slowly comes to see that she is also wrong in some of the ways she “shows” her love. I was really happy when, towards the end, Cassie found the inner strength to confront her mother about some of those things.

The writing is poetic and lyrical. I'm struggling to think of a comparable author or writing style, but I'm drawing a blank; Kinword's writing felt like a brand new experience for me as a reader. I know it might sound a little extreme, but sometimes it feels like she’s the only one I can be myself around, like she’s the only thing holding my feet to the ground and without her, I might just forget who I really am and float away. I struggled with the first person omniscient perspective of this book. It makes sense after getting to the ending, but it is something I am not used to at all and it sometimes broke my brain.This book was nice! I really liked the writing and the characters were really easy to understand and love. It’s not often I read a book and think, “I’ll never be the same” after reading it, but that’s exactly how I feel after finishing Forget Me Not. It is a masterpiece in every sense of the word and I am in awe of the way Karissa’s mind works, not to mention that this is her debut novel. Forget Me Not is in the running to be my favorite book of 2023 — and it's one of my favorite books I've ever read. This book was beautiful, heart-wrenching, vivid, and so, so absorbing. I refuse to shut up about this book until everyone has read it. (go on. read it!) This was a phenomenal book. I really felt like the author put us right into Callie’s shoes. The writing was flawless – not once did I feel jolted out of the story by any sort of author intervention, and the ending…well. My heart broke into a thousand pieces. But it’s worth it! It fits. And there is hope, because Callie is not the sort of person to let her condition or her mother stop her. The world building and the sci-fi elements were enticing and well established. I was curious about it. I loved the setting and this ship that is our main location. Very well done!

When Calli met Jinsong, her new neighbor and fellow classmate, they formed the sweetest friendship. Jinsong liked Calli for who she was and her Tourette's didn't bother him (he also had the most adorable crush on her). But at school, Jinsong ignored Calli because he was afraid of what the other kids would say. He struggled between caving to peer pressure and doing what he wanted - to be Calli's friend. Ellie Terry also has a short video on youtube about her tics and there's a beautiful book trailer for this book too. I loved the author's note in the end. This like applies to all of us. A romantic ode to the strength of love and the power of choosing each other, against odds and obstacles, again and again. I kind of hated how she treated Logan. He was clueless and obviously not her soulmate, but he didn’t deserve what she did to him. She emotionally cheated on him a whole lot and came close to physically cheating, broke up their long term relationship suddenly and with virtually no explanation except there is someone else before bouncing right onto Silas, literally and figuratively. When he tries to get more of an explantation and talk through things, she hides, lies, and brushes him off until he finds out the hard way that she is with Silas. He wasn’t a bad guy and deserved better. She can obviously make any choice she wants, but her partner is owed the respect of full honesty for why she is leaving him. It really made me dislike her. I also didn’t like how Silas used another woman to assuage his pain at finding Eliza with someone else.If I'm a book, then he's all the lines between every sentence. He's the curve of each letter reaching out to kiss the next, the swooping song of every italic, the pausing breath of well placed punctuation. I am the words, but he is the way in which you read them. One thing I love about Nora is that she oozes passion. Pure unfiltered passion, for all kinds of things. It’s easy to get excited when you’re around her, even about stuff you never cared about before. I like the way the concept of soulmates is explored here, it’s romantic as hell. I love the idea of finding the love of your life in your dreams and then it becomes real. The sci-fi setting of this just adds to the book and romance. It isn’t the main focus but it sets the perfect stage for events to unfold. If I’m a book, then he is all the lines between every sentence. He’s the curve of each letter reaching out to kiss the next, the swooping song of every italic, the pausing breath of well placed punctuation. I am the words, but he is the way in which you read them."