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Do You Remember?

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Tess Strebel can’t recognize her own face.

She can’t recognize her home. Her bedroom is unfamiliar. And she can’t remember the handsome stranger lying next to her in bed. A stranger who claims he’s her husband.

Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, composed during a rare lucid day, explaining her life as it now exists: She was in a terrible car accident one year ago. Every morning, she wakes up unable to remember most of the last decade. Including her own wedding.

Tess has no choice but to accept her new life and hope her memory will return. After all, why should she doubt the letter she wrote to herself? Or the kind man from the wedding photos on her dresser who seems to genuinely care about her well-being?

And then Tess receives a text message on her phone. One that changes everything:

"Don’t trust the man who calls himself your husband."

334 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2022

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Freida McFadden

61 books230k followers
#1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly, and Amazon Charts bestselling author Freida McFadden is a practicing physician specializing in brain injury who has penned multiple Kindle bestselling psychological thrillers and medical humor novels. She lives with her family and possessed cat in a centuries-old three-story home overlooking the ocean, with staircases that creak and moan with each step, and nobody could hear you if you scream. Unless you scream really loudly, maybe.

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Profile Image for Cindy McBride.
112 reviews10 followers
February 7, 2022
I'm not sure I read the same book as everyone else, since there's no way I'd have given it 4 or 5 stars. At first, the premise sounded interesting. Then the repetition sets in. The same thing, over and over and over again...often with the same dialog. The only character I liked was the dog. The ending was frustrating and disappointing. Definitely not impressed.
Profile Image for Nina (ninjasbooks).
1,590 reviews1,667 followers
May 22, 2023
The book had some ‘before I go to sleep vibes’. A woman waking up with no memory every day? Perfect for making you wonder what’s going on from the get-go. Every character was suspects, and you had to read on. The ending was satisfying, and I enjoyed the time it took to get there.
Profile Image for Courtney (caffeinereadrepeat).
417 reviews134 followers
January 10, 2022
Son Of A Snowman's Dog!! 😳😳🤯🤯😯😯

Geeeezzzuuussss! What the FLUFF!? What! What! WHAT!!! 😳 Freida has done it again! I was hooked from the first page, let alone the first chapter! I loved watching Tess's life unfold, what happened to her, how things have changed since her accident and most importantly, what is going on now and why! I was absolutely gobsmacked! I woke up at 6am to get this book on release day and devour it. It. Did. Not. Disappoint! A literary genius in our midst who deserves far more recognition then she gets. My jaw is still sore from it all. Absolutely twisted & crazy with things you never see coming. I'm still trying to catch up with my brain after all that. She knows how to mess up your brain in the best way!

I give this 5 / 5 snowflakes! ❄️
Profile Image for Abbie Konnick.
125 reviews16.8k followers
January 6, 2025
3.75 🌟 interesting, got me thinking, a little strange still, but not bad!
Profile Image for Sue.
1,417 reviews5 followers
November 16, 2022
DO YOU REMEMBER? is a psychological thriller by bestselling author Freida McFadden. This is the tenth book I have read from this author, and having loved her novels, I was eager to start reading it. As an avid reader of psychological thrillers, I can only say, treat yourself and read all of her books! Her books are so good!

Her Standalone Books Include:
Baby City (2015)
The Surrogate Mother (2018) (Read)
The Ex (2019) (Read)
The Perfect Son (2019) (Read)
The Wife Upstairs (2020) (Read)
One By One (2020) (Read)
Want to Know a Secret? (2021) (Read)
The Locked Door (2021) (Read)
Do Not Disturb (2021) (Read)
Do You Remember? (2022) (Read)
The Housemaid (2022) (Read)
The Inmate (2022)
Never Lie (2022)

This is my review of Do You Remember?

Tess Strebel is engaged to Harry, after living together for over a year and buying a one-bedroom apartment together.

Tess wakes up after celebrating their engagement, to a home that is unfamiliar to her, a face she doesn’t recognize, and a stranger, who claims to be her husband.

But where is Harry?

The stranger tells her that Harry doesn’t live there anymore, and his name is Graham…and he is her husband.

She doesn’t understand.

Tess reads a letter in her own handwriting, explaining her life as it now exists: She was in a terrible car accident one year ago. Every morning, she wakes up unable to remember the past, including her own wedding. Tess has no choice but to accept her new life and hope her memory will return.

And then Tess receives a text message on her phone.

"Don’t trust the man who calls himself your husband."

This was a decent read but not my favorite.
Profile Image for Katym521.
441 reviews6 followers
June 16, 2022
Hard to put down!

It kind of reminds me of 50 first dates with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. This has a more sinister mood.
Profile Image for Caroline S.
131 reviews
January 18, 2022
The first half was really really good. I couldn’t put it down and I was thinking about it so much I couldn’t sleep. The second half was a dissapointment. The conclusion was really weak and stupid and it didn’t make a lot of sense? This book could be SOOO good, but no. It was a fast read though
Profile Image for Courtney ✩.
272 reviews526 followers
January 15, 2024
✎𓂃 “Don’t trust the man who calls himself your husband.”

⤷ Ooooh, suspicious, right? 🤨

☆Summary:
One day, Tess is getting engaged to the love of her life: Harry. The following day, she wakes up in bed next to a completely different man named Graham, her supposed husband?? She’s seven years older, her hair is chopped off, the house she was just in last night has gone through a total remodel, her clothes are all designer, and she has a dog? All she knows is that Graham won’t hurt her, based off a letter she wrote to herself, explaining her daily memory loss after a terrible car accident. But if it’s just memory loss, why does she have to be babysat every second of the day? Why are all the doors locked from the inside? And why did she just get a text telling her not to trust her husband?

✎𓂃 “Nearly a decade of memories have somehow just vanished. But have they vanished? Or are they just below the surface, waiting to be retrieved?”

☆My Thoughts:
Think of every memory loss, repeating day reference you can manage, and that is the vibe of this book. I was in desperate need of a short, read-in-one-day page-turner thriller to avoid a slump, and for this, Freida has always been my go-to. She hasn’t failed me yet, but this one is likely my least favorite of hers I’ve read so far.

Freida’s writing has always been straightforward and easy to read, which makes it a piece of cake to inhale any of her works in a single sitting. Do You Remember? is no exception. The twists were plentiful, but aren’t groundbreaking (aside from maybe one), and are easy to sus out relatively early. Normally my jaw dislocates and falls so far from my body when she throws in a twist, so that’s my biggest gripe with this book. Obviously the repetitive nature of Tess's life can be annoying as well, but for 281 pages I feel I can’t overly complain 😅

The Characters: Tess? Just okay. Graham? Hot and suspicious. Camila? Hot and intriguing. Harry? Interesting? (no hot vibes lol sorry) And Lucy? 🙅🏻‍♀️

But I honestly couldn’t care less about any of the characters except Ziggy, the dog. Now THAT’s a good boy 🐶🥹💓

I’d absolutely recommend for anyone needing something quick and suspenseful to get through a slump! Unfortunately tho, there was no dancing in September 😅 Sad day.




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pre-review: these are so not the vibes but here i am singing earth, wind, & fire’s “september” lol 🎶
Profile Image for Aya.
1,134 reviews1,089 followers
January 28, 2022
3.5 star.
This book started with a bang, then it just went up and down for me. Sometimes it was so good that it got me hooked and other times I was like what have I just read?!

I like the idea of the book but the writing wasn't skilful enough. The way Freida McFadden ended the book was rushed. We didn't have a chance to know the characters better. It wasn't easy to write this trope as it was kind of repetitive. Overall, it was a quick and easy read.

By the way, I love pomegranate juice. Anyone who read this book would understand what I meant. ^_^
Profile Image for Francesca (pavisfrancesca).
337 reviews6,224 followers
April 18, 2024
3.5⭐️ enjoyable read that I got through in 24h!

But due to the premise (a woman wakes up every morning not being able to remember anything that’s happened in the last 7 years) it is quite repetitive, and overall it’s just quite a surface level book.

More depth would have been needed to rate this higher. But don’t get me wrong it was engaging and I did like it!
Profile Image for George Stenger.
706 reviews58 followers
April 13, 2025
Reminded me of the movie Groundhog Day where the person woke up every morning with no previous memories.

Tess's last memory was of a night spent with her fiancée. She wakes up the "next" morning and finds that she is married to someone else. She is told that she had a brain injury and must be continually monitored for her own safety.

She finds a message that she wrote on her thigh so her husband would not see it. She struggles to fight the fog in her mind.

A quick read that I suspected what was happening but there was a nice twist at the end.
April 10, 2023
Given that I have now read too many Freida McFadden books that I have found are just way too similar to or much the same as other books published first that I've read, I have decided to reasses my ratings. I'll leave my original review for what I thought at the time, but don't want to support this.
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This psychological/domestic thriller was enjoyable, but for the reasons below I have given it 3.5 stars, rounded down. If you have not read 'Before I Go to Sleep', this would likely be a 4.5 star read.

Tess wakes up every day with no memory of what happened the day prior, and thinking it is about 7 years earlier when her life was on a completely different trajectory.

She has no idea who the man she wakes up next to is, who seems kind and caring and claims to be her husband. However, she is being convinced she ought not to trust her husband.

Is the person she wakes up to everyday and who cares for her the untrustworthy one? Or is it the person trying to convince the brain damaged Tess not to trust the man she married who is the untrustworthy one?

My view:

I found this book to be very similar, at least in earlier parts, to Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson. When I read that book, I was new to these kinds of thrillers and found the pacing and mystery fantastic. Reading this one, however, I found the repeated days from memory loss a grind and frustrating. I think one book of this kind is enough for me.

As usual, Freida McFadden has ended this book with a twist that was not predictable, though some aspects were to me very predictable (I shall say no more so as to avoid spoilers).
Profile Image for Nic.
584 reviews22 followers
January 21, 2022
⭐️⭐️⭐️ a good book but my least favourite of the all the books I’ve read by this author.

It keeps you guessing but the whole premise of each day repeating itself meant that chunks of the book were repeating themselves and we had to live through the same description time after time.

The Lucy and Camilla characters I found a little odd; good guys then bad guys then good guys.

Overall ok but not her best.
16 reviews
July 10, 2022
Horrible

Almost painful to read. The writing is beyond elementary. I stayed with it so I could find out what happened at the end but that was the biggest disappointment of all. I'm not a writer and I have no talent in that area, so I feel terrible leaving bad reviews ... therefore I almost never do it. But I just can't help myself with this one, because I AM a reader ... a very avid one ... and this was just SO not worth the time.
Profile Image for Jamie - Thriller Bookworm.
34 reviews12 followers
September 28, 2024
This book was fine, not my favourite from Freida, seemed very dragged out and could very easily predict what was going to happen from the start! 3.5 rating
Profile Image for Hannah.
2,257 reviews471 followers
May 7, 2025
The story moved at a quicker pace than expected, given that the main character wakes up to the same day every single day. So we experience that as the reader too - we wake up with her and experience her same confusion every single day. The storyline only progresses because the villain's foil is persistent and because each day, one thing changes to affect the next day (kind of the whole ripple in time/butterfly effect concept in time travel).

I thought I was going to find the rehashing annoying. It wasn't too bad because I could feel empathetic to this woman's daily fog and also because it becomes pretty clear early on that all is not as it seems (of course we know to expect this because it's a thriller). When the twists come, they are also more banal than I've come to anticipate from McFadden. So it was less whaaaaaaaaat and more oh.

Moral of this story, as it is with all her works: listen to your instincts!

Overall, fairly fun and easy to read. 3.5 stars.
Profile Image for Teju  A.
417 reviews35 followers
October 14, 2025
What happens when all you remember when you wake up is you're sick. The handsome man you wake up to every morning tells you he's your husband, but for some reason you only remember the boyfriend before him?! Who's lying and why do you never remember the previous day? Lastly who's in it for the money?!

Solid 4 stars!!!!
Profile Image for Marci.
574 reviews306 followers
July 22, 2025
Nooo she can’t keep getting away with this (having a super strong start and fumbling the ending)!!!!🤣😭 My ninth Freida book - I liked it! I definitely did. I was getting to thinking this was going to be one of my favorites from her. But I just feel like maybe I could’ve written a better end portion than that. It just really went off the rails. The beginning is significantly stronger than the end. The book is a bit repetitive but I really didn’t mind too much. It’s engaging with enough moving parts to have me wondering what the heck is REALLY going on…. And the answer? BOO!! Silly!! C’mon!! Ugh. I’m annoyed!! But I’ll forever return to her books so… 🤭🤣 I guess I just have to accept that more often than not the ending in one of her books is just a complete mess. Let’s call it what it is!!! But nonetheless… I am still a loyal fan.💁🏼‍♀️
Profile Image for Alam.
122 reviews20 followers
April 29, 2024
کتاب “یادت هست” در مورد دختریست که هر روز فراموشی میگیرد و هیچ چیز جز معدود خاطراتی از عشق سابقش به خاطر نمی‌آورد و سرانجام داستان این فراموشی عجیب آشکار می‌شود. کتاب شروعی بسیار درخشان اما پایانی به شدت ضعیف داشت. روند داستان در ابتدا بسیار هیجان‌انگیز و پرکشش بود اما با تکرار مکررات و دور باطل روزهای فراموشی خسته‌کننده شد. حماقت شخصیت “تس” و انفعال پدرش در این داستان دور از انتظار بود.
Profile Image for Grace.
77 reviews57 followers
March 15, 2025
still don’t understand what the relevance of the pomegranate juice was
Profile Image for Catbytheseareads ♡.
804 reviews76 followers
July 27, 2023
Groundhog's day meets 50 first dates.
Tess wakes up every morning not remembering her husband, her home, her life.
She reads a letter she wrote to herself each morning.
Her dog Ziggy is all that comforts her in her new life that's like a prison being home with the housekeeper while her husband runs her business for her.
It's a book that will put you on the edge of your seat and make you wonder what would you do if you were in this situation.

Bravo to Freida for another amazing and shocking ending that of course you'll love.
Profile Image for Deborah Widup.
26 reviews3 followers
March 25, 2022
How Is This Considered a Novel? Boring and outlandish

This book reminded me of another book where a woman woke everyday not remembering the previous days. That book was great. I thought, what the heck. I’ll try this. I’d read another book by this author and had liked if. Not so with this one. The characters were one dimensional, the way events unfolded were implausible and the time I spent reading this book was wasted.
Profile Image for Zoe Reads.
672 reviews38 followers
April 1, 2022
Imagine every morning when you wake up , the last thing you remember is a decade ago? You were engaged to a different man, the house didn’t look the same, you don’t even know your own dog.

Well that is the life Tess lives. Every night when she goes to sleep her short term memories are wiped so every day she wakes up in shock next to a man she thinks she’s never even met !

Crazy , whirlwind of a story!! Loved it!
Profile Image for aleksandra.
775 reviews3,711 followers
July 8, 2024
2.75/5

Honestly, Do You Remember? didn't feel like a thriller. The plot twist was obvious — I literally guessed most of the details in the first seventeen percent of the book, the repetitions — I won't give anything away here, but if you've read the book, you'll know — made me want to fall asleep, and the thrill you usually find in a good thriller was nonexistent here. Unfortunately, my least favorite Freida McFadden book so far.
Profile Image for Bailey.
68 reviews11 followers
June 22, 2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

An easy 4 for me. I’ve seen people say they predicted the ending. Sure. Maybe you guessed the husband was giving red flags. But the rest? No you didn’t. Freida does what Freida does best: throws you into chaos and then casually pulls the rug out at the last second.

I tore through this in a day because that’s just how it goes with her books. The plot moves fast, the chapters are addictive, and suddenly it's 2 AM and you're questioning everything.

The ending was part shocking, part “wait, what?” and I do think there was room for more from characters like Camila and Lucy. They showed up, then kind of… didn’t. But honestly, I was too entertained to be mad about it.

Would I recommend it? If you’re a Freida fan, obviously. If not, I still would. Join us. Resistance is futile. 😉
Profile Image for Danielle-Gemma💜.
452 reviews26 followers
March 3, 2024
Okay so as we all know by now I love Freida McFadden but honestly I wish I didn’t remember reading this book 😂

It was a terrible version of ‘Before I go to sleep’ which I recommend a million times over this book! What a sad way to end my Freida journey 😭
Profile Image for Sherri Thacker.
1,677 reviews373 followers
May 26, 2023
Once again, Freida knocks it out of the park!!!! Loved the twist at the end which yes I thought I had it figured out but nope totally wrong!!!! Highly recommend!!!
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