A review by anyaemilie
Forget Me Not by Julie Soto

1.0

 This book was so extremely goofy and unserious and I should have DNF'd. And yet here I am -_-

A florist named Elliot Bloom who falls in love with a wedding planner named Amaryllis? Wow. How groundbreaking. Also he maybe called her Emma as a joke? I'm not sure. I listened to the audiobook and I couldn't tell the difference when either narrator said Ama or Emma but it wasn't funny anyway.

Also the villain was PAINFULLY obvious from the outset and the MC is either an idiot or... No she's just an idiot.

Honestly both MCs were BORING. They were like caricatures of people with zero personality and just made up of a mish-mash of romance tropes. The main couple featured in the wedding Ama was planning also just seemed to be queer for diversity points and nothing more. I mixed them up multiple times throughout the book.

I don't want to trash talk fanfic writers because some of the best things I've ever read were fanfic but I don't think that always translates well into original characters. There's a lot more heavy lifting involved when you have to invent the entire world and the characters and the readers are going in with zero emotional attachment to the characters (I also left the book with zero emotional attachment to these two. Snooze). My point is, this book needed some more beta readers (editors) before it was published because it's a CLUNKER.

P.S. In what world does a woman have enough money for 16 weddings because Jesus Christ what an absolutely ridiculous plot point

P.P.S I think the MCs had sex about seventeen times in this book and not a single time did it happen in a bed. Or even a bedroom. They definitely defiled Elliot's workbench in his flower shop multiple times though, so I hope he cleaned that off REALY GOOD because ew.

SIGH what a waste of my life. I wanted a light, fluffy romance to counteract the fact that I'm reading The Burning God, and I got this trash fire. RIP

(BTW I talked myself out of an entire star while writing this review so do with that what you will)