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Remember Me Always by Renee Collins Review

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Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to drop on by The Preppy Book Princess.

Last year, I started a mission to find a great young adult contemporary read. This without a doubt used to be my favorite genre, but since I've gotten a lot fussier about the type of content I enjoy while reading, I've discovered this genre has taken a huge downturn in the amount of inappropriate content contained within.

I've discovered a lot of duds while on this journey to find a great young adult contemporary that's clean and reminiscent of the ten years ago type of YA. 

However, today I'd like to share a review with you all of another one of these titles I read along my quest.

Keep reading down below to see if this one ended up being the one I was looking for.


Remember Me Always by Renee Collins:



Source: Library

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Publication Date: October 3rd, 2017

Genre: Young Adult Fiction/Contemporary/Romance Mystery


Synopsis:


Shelby is nervous to start her senior year after spending the whole summer away from home. After all, it's hard to be carefree when you're trying to protect a secret.

Shelby was in a devastating car accident, and everyone in town thinks that she was undergoing more physical therapy in Denver. Instead, Shelby's mother enrolled her in a clinical program to stop the panic attacks that started after the crash. The treatment erased Shelby's memory of the accident, but she can't help feeling as if a piece of herself is missing, that the treatment took more than the doctors claimed.

So when Shelby starts hallucinating a boy with dark and mysterious eyes, she knows it must be a side-effect of the clinical program. Except you can't kiss hallucinations. And this boy insists that they know each other and are in love...

(synopsis from goodreads)


My Review:

Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins was a book that I adored, and couldn't get enough of, so I had high hopes I would end up feeling the same way about her follow up. Unfortunately this one ended up being nothing like what I was either expecting or hoping for, and I'm honestly conflicted with thinking that even a two star rating may have been too generous for this hot mess of a novel.

Shelby was not the most likeable protagonist, but I could deal with her. Auden on the other hand was creepy and manipulative, and I couldn't stand how the reader was supposed to believe that any of his controlling and abusive tendencies were romantic. When he shows up insisting to Shelby that they know each other, and that her mother took the memory of him along with everything else, she trusts him completely without asking any of her trusted friends and family for the truth. I wanted to scream at her for the majority of the book, as she literally could have wound up dead in a ditch having no clue who the young stalkerish creepy male truly was.

The entire book hints at a big secret that Shelby needs to figure out, and yet I found the reveal to be a huge letdown. I'd already figured out the majority of it way before it's finally revealed, and it didn't seem like it lived up to the way it was hyped all throughout.

The ending made absolutely no sense, and wasn't the slightest bit believable or realistic. The "happily ever after" (not what you might think) seemed to be completely out of place in a novel like this, and I was expecting much more.

Final Rating: 2/5.

I'm sticking with my two star rating because I did think the idea behind the story was an original one and I applaud the author for that. However, the rest of this story was pretty horrendous, and since the romance was toxic and abusive, and the mystery was a huge letdown, it was hard to find any other redeeming qualities. I will definitely not be recommending this one.

Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of your day :)

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