Ashley (Ash) and Ashford (Ford) have been best friends forever.
January 2002
When Ash meets Ford, he is six years old. His mom is too busy taking care of his younger brothers, his dad is too angry. There’s nobody in the world who will care about Ash, nobody who will love him for who he really is. That is, of course, until Ashford Hale comes into his life.
August 2024
Two weeks after a car accident, Ford wakes up from a medically induced coma with no memory of the past two years. A fractured elbow, some bruising, but nothing else seems out of the ordinary. Except, his life is completely different now. His best friend Ash is right beside him when Ford wakes up, and there’s a new light in his eyes; a new softness in the way Ash holds Ford’s hand. Ford has so many questions, and his mind has very few answers. How did he end up in a relationship with his best friend in 2024? Will the headache ever leave him alone? And who the hell is Winnie? What else has he forgotten?
Forgotten is the first novel in the Memory Loss Series, starring Ashley Bergman. This MM romance can be read as a standalone and the happy ending is guaranteed. Please refer to the content warnings for more information.
This book made me feel so much in such a short period of time, I read it and felt like I was actually meeting these protagonists and getting to know them as people rather than characters. It felt like a gift to get to know them and I am so excited to get to know more of these characters throughout the rest of the series!
I liked that Ashley and Ashford were rounded up characters with flaws, insecurities and emotions that made me feels for them and this situation that they were thrown into. I loved their child and how I adored the ambiguity of how Ford reacted. I do believe that if anyone was thrown in a similar situation, it would be hard to wrap their head around a forgotten baby.
I wanted them to be happy on so many occasions and I do believe that the representations of mental health struggles were done very beautifully and respectfully.