30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2
Book 24/30
This one was a long time coming. I’ve owned it for years, and recommended it to a handful of friends, most of whom were confused why I was recommending a book to them I hadn’t read, but I know about books even if I haven’t read them! And they liked it! So!
This is the second book of two that I had on my TBR that was about a woman getting a head injury and losing the memory of years of her life. I didn’t like the first one I read very much (Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella), but this was one was pretty great. It’s been two months, so the details are mostly eluding me right now, but I remember that the main character’s arc was really satisfying, and I liked looking at her relationships from this angle, where she only remembers ten years ago in the past, and not everything that has happened in the ten years since. This also has the handy effect of Alice getting some unique perspective on her own life, like a really traumatic version of therapy.
I was a bit puzzled by the way Moriarty structured the ending (SPOILERS what was with the fake-out of making us think she wasn’t going to get back together with Nick? END SPOILERS), but it didn’t affect how I felt about the rest of the book. This wasn’t my favorite of Moriarty’s books (that would be Apples Never Fall), but it was well worth the read.