Forget Me Not

This was almost a 4-star read for me; I enjoyed the plot and cleverness of the storytelling that much, and I didn't see the twists at the end coming. I liked the light touch world building, and the use of the first person omniscient (it took a chapter or two to get used to, but I've never read another book that used it and I am drawn to narrative novelty). It's definitely a romance novel with a sprinkling of sci fi/magical realism, but that sprinkling is really well-deployed. The reason I bumped it back to three stars are (1) the middle of the book dragged for me (from abt 47% finished to 67% finished in kindle is sex; and it's well-written, but I found myself bored of it — skimming past it to get to more plot), (2) despite the book being written entirely in her voice, I found the FMC to be a bit flat and personality-less, and (3) there were just enough words used incorrectly (close cognates where I could tell what word the writer meant to use, but the wrong one was selected) that I found bothersome. Overall I really enjoyed this book! It was just missing a few key things for me.

I'm definitely going to pretend that epilogue didn't happen... mostly because I loved the story of Eliza and Silas. It is a really cool way to end a stand-alone though. I saw the author wrote another epilogue though... I need it

3.5, not what I thought I was getting. Also discrete and discreet are two very different things.