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Remember Me
BBW New Adult Billionaire Romance
Nicole wakes up in the hospital with no memories of who she is. The doctor tells her that Trent Chan is her husband. She refuses to believe that a hot Asian guy like him would marry a curvy, dark chocolate sister such as herself. He accuses her of faking her amnesia to stop him from filing for a divorce. She only knows one thing for sure after months passes by without curing her memory loss. She loves Trent and wants to grant him his freedom.
After being settled into her new home she is nearly kidnaped. Now the one man she doesn’t want help from drags her back to his mansion and advises she goes back into hypnotic therapy. She tries hard to resist him but can’t help melting under his touch. But a horrible and traumatizing voice keeps haunting her. A memory of a past she has long forgotten and wishes to keep buried. One that could ruin her chances of rekindling her life with Trent. Can she move past her fears or lose Trent again forever?
word count: 22,000
Nicole wakes up in the hospital with no memories of who she is. The doctor tells her that Trent Chan is her husband. She refuses to believe that a hot Asian guy like him would marry a curvy, dark chocolate sister such as herself. He accuses her of faking her amnesia to stop him from filing for a divorce. She only knows one thing for sure after months passes by without curing her memory loss. She loves Trent and wants to grant him his freedom.
After being settled into her new home she is nearly kidnaped. Now the one man she doesn’t want help from drags her back to his mansion and advises she goes back into hypnotic therapy. She tries hard to resist him but can’t help melting under his touch. But a horrible and traumatizing voice keeps haunting her. A memory of a past she has long forgotten and wishes to keep buried. One that could ruin her chances of rekindling her life with Trent. Can she move past her fears or lose Trent again forever?
word count: 22,000
86 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 25, 2014
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June 9, 2015
EDIT Now that I've read the next book, I'm pretty sure that I misjudged the author's intentions. In fact, I should have realised from the beginning that this was a sincere effort. I just didn't want to believe that anyone who was actually trying could do such an awful job of it. I still wish that the author really did have poor intentions because then I'd feel better about how I feel about the books in this series. END EDIT
I really hope that Ms Walters is one of those opportunistic writers who slap together quick-and-dirty reads because they know that a genre is popular. Billionaire "hero"? Yup. Interracial romance? Yes, sir. New Adult? Not really, but the cover claims it to be so. BBW? Yes. It's mentioned briefly at the very beginning that the protagonist is "a big" woman, but the details are vague and it doesn't come up much after that. (Actually, I'm glad she didn't spend the whole book lamenting her weight, but I was still left suspicious that it only came up in the first place to score more readers.)
If this book was a sincere effort at telling a good story, Walters failed on many levels. Since I downloaded the title for free, I'd feel terrible saying what I'm about to say if she wrote this in an honest effort to entertain readers. But I believe that future readers should be warned not to spend their time – let alone their money – on such a poor product.
Let us – for a moment, anyway – ignore the mistakes in writing mechanics. For now, let's not address the only-believable-in-the-worst-of-soap-operas plot. I know lots of readers can get past those things.
Few readers I know can forgive atrocious characterisation, however. And that's what's presented here. Nicole, the protagonist and narrator, is veritable saint, surrounded by people who treat her terribly. Because she is suffering from amnesia throughout most of the story, she never really defends herself. The martyr behaviour, while somewhat understandable under the circumstances presented, gets old really fast. It's hard to root for a character who never roots for herself.
I might have eventually come to terms with Nicole's behaviour if the plot had ever made it clear that she was guilty of any of the things she'd been accused of. Or, at the very least, made it clear why the others had accused her. As things stand, the story ended without me ever having a reason to believe she'd ever done anything wrong. Moreover, events in the story suggest that she was incapable of having done the things she was accused of. So, it made no sense that she was so quick to forgive.
Let's imagine for a moment that she hadn't done any of the things she was accused of. Why didn't the other apologise to her, beg her forgiveness? What they did was emotional abuse, nothing less. And yet it was swept under the rug for the sake of a fast HEA.
A certain pivotal scene made absolutely no sense. Actually, many pivotal scenes made absolutely no sense, as did many unimportant scenes. But the "big reveal" about Nicole's past was not only cruelly done, it likely went against legal medical practice. It definitely was unethical. Her ex-husband insists that she share a meal with his family – who, along with his staff, have been abusing her emotionally even though he had eventually stopped – to have dinner soon after her ordeal.
The next day, Nicole acts almost as if nothing has happened. While I understand that such a defence mechanism might happen, in light of everything else that's wrong with the plot, I can't help but think it's more the result of terrible plotting than a well-researched choice. Several poor choices following immediately after helped to underscore this suspicion.
And then there's the grammar. Dear heavens, the grammar fail is strong in this one. At some points, I felt that it might be deliberate. That the writer was attempting to write in AAVE and coming off instead as writing a parody of it. But she was so consistent in her mistakes, I decided that it might not have been done on purpose, after all. Lots of unedited authors write things like "pass" where "past" should have been, or "shock" where "shocked" was needed, or "embarrass" when "embarrassed" was called for, right? Okay, they don't in my experience. But what do I know?
Then came a chapter where the author suddenly used the terms correctly. I was so shock, I skipped pass a few pages to see if things continued to get better! Alas, they didn't, and I was embarrass for the writer, but I went back and read the pages I'd skipped, and I discovered that the correct terms hadn't even lasted the entire chapter. Suddenly, I was back to suspecting this author was an opportunist out to take advantage of Black women who thirst for more IRR.
I really hope that Ms Walters is one of those opportunistic writers who slap together quick-and-dirty reads because they know that a genre is popular. Billionaire "hero"? Yup. Interracial romance? Yes, sir. New Adult? Not really, but the cover claims it to be so. BBW? Yes. It's mentioned briefly at the very beginning that the protagonist is "a big" woman, but the details are vague and it doesn't come up much after that. (Actually, I'm glad she didn't spend the whole book lamenting her weight, but I was still left suspicious that it only came up in the first place to score more readers.)
If this book was a sincere effort at telling a good story, Walters failed on many levels. Since I downloaded the title for free, I'd feel terrible saying what I'm about to say if she wrote this in an honest effort to entertain readers. But I believe that future readers should be warned not to spend their time – let alone their money – on such a poor product.
Let us – for a moment, anyway – ignore the mistakes in writing mechanics. For now, let's not address the only-believable-in-the-worst-of-soap-operas plot. I know lots of readers can get past those things.
Few readers I know can forgive atrocious characterisation, however. And that's what's presented here. Nicole, the protagonist and narrator, is veritable saint, surrounded by people who treat her terribly. Because she is suffering from amnesia throughout most of the story, she never really defends herself. The martyr behaviour, while somewhat understandable under the circumstances presented, gets old really fast. It's hard to root for a character who never roots for herself.
I might have eventually come to terms with Nicole's behaviour if the plot had ever made it clear that she was guilty of any of the things she'd been accused of. Or, at the very least, made it clear why the others had accused her. As things stand, the story ended without me ever having a reason to believe she'd ever done anything wrong. Moreover, events in the story suggest that she was incapable of having done the things she was accused of. So, it made no sense that she was so quick to forgive.
Let's imagine for a moment that she hadn't done any of the things she was accused of. Why didn't the other apologise to her, beg her forgiveness? What they did was emotional abuse, nothing less. And yet it was swept under the rug for the sake of a fast HEA.
A certain pivotal scene made absolutely no sense. Actually, many pivotal scenes made absolutely no sense, as did many unimportant scenes. But the "big reveal" about Nicole's past was not only cruelly done, it likely went against legal medical practice. It definitely was unethical. Her ex-husband insists that she share a meal with his family – who, along with his staff, have been abusing her emotionally even though he had eventually stopped – to have dinner soon after her ordeal.
The next day, Nicole acts almost as if nothing has happened. While I understand that such a defence mechanism might happen, in light of everything else that's wrong with the plot, I can't help but think it's more the result of terrible plotting than a well-researched choice. Several poor choices following immediately after helped to underscore this suspicion.
And then there's the grammar. Dear heavens, the grammar fail is strong in this one. At some points, I felt that it might be deliberate. That the writer was attempting to write in AAVE and coming off instead as writing a parody of it. But she was so consistent in her mistakes, I decided that it might not have been done on purpose, after all. Lots of unedited authors write things like "pass" where "past" should have been, or "shock" where "shocked" was needed, or "embarrass" when "embarrassed" was called for, right? Okay, they don't in my experience. But what do I know?
Then came a chapter where the author suddenly used the terms correctly. I was so shock, I skipped pass a few pages to see if things continued to get better! Alas, they didn't, and I was embarrass for the writer, but I went back and read the pages I'd skipped, and I discovered that the correct terms hadn't even lasted the entire chapter. Suddenly, I was back to suspecting this author was an opportunist out to take advantage of Black women who thirst for more IRR.
June 8, 2015
When you come here to write a review and just come up with 'this was a bunch of crap' because you can't be bothered to sum up why it sucked so much, it is nice to find a reviewer who went the extra mile and explains it all. So thanks, Tea! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(and oh, this easily applies for the second book
which I just thumbed through and DNF)
(and oh, this easily applies for the second book
which I just thumbed through and DNF)
May 8, 2014
It's a pretty cool short read...a lot happened and some topics might have been better if they were developed more but otherwise amazing..character development is amazing though not fully shown but felt.. overall you won't be that disappointed..
wonder what the second book in the series is about?
wonder what the second book in the series is about?
May 27, 2015
Good storyline
The storyline was pretty good. The bad proofreading took away from the story for me. Hope the second book is better.
The storyline was pretty good. The bad proofreading took away from the story for me. Hope the second book is better.
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