Book Review: Do You Remember ? By Freida Mcfadden

 'Do You Remember ?' is yet another generic thriller by Freida Mcfadden and after reading this one I can confidently say that there aren't many like Freida  who can consistently deliver fast paced pop- corn reads even from the most derivative plot lines!

Do You Remember is also one of the earlier kindle works of Freida which has got a paperback version recently.The core idea is almost similar to Gillian McAllister's 'Wrong Place Wrong Time' (which came a couple of years later to this book), 'Fifty First Dates' and 'Before I go to Sleep' where the main protagonist is having memory issues. Tess Strebel, our heroine is having short term memory loss and she can retain her recent memory only for a single day. So every day, she is waking up, next to her husband Gragam with no memory of the previous day and she has to solely rely on the letters which he has written for herself to make good for the patches in her memory. Her memory is stuck seven years back at a time she was about to get engaged to her long term boy friend, Harry Finch. 

If You have read 'Wrong Place Wrong Time' or seen any of the Movies which i have mentioned earlier, I hope you will get a hang of what i have tried to say and that exactly is how this fast paced thriller pan out.

This one (though pretty generic and has predictable tropes at it's disposal) moves at break-neck speed and I am pretty sure that if You have started reading this one , you won't keep it down without finishing it. This one has got one of the most stupid and implausible endings which you can ever imagine, but I kind of liked the 'newness' of it, it was so-bad-that-it was good- kind of twist, I must say!

On the whole, this one is a cheesy pop corn read which never takes itself too seriously!

-nikhimenon


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Book Review: Do You Remember ? By Freida Mcfadden

  'Do You Remember ?' is yet another generic thriller by Freida Mcfadden and after reading this one I can confidently say that there...