Unfortunately I did not enjoy this book.  I'm sure there are others who will enjoy it but it was not the right story for me.

Until We Meet Again was one of my most anticipated books the year it came out, and when I read it, it was what I expected and more. I'm not usually a fan of romance mysteries, but seeing as Renee Collins wrote this book, I immediately jumped at the opportunity to read and review it. I really loved her previous novel, and maybe I expected too much from this one. Needless to say, I was kind of disappointed. 

Remember Me Always was a really quick read, as are most romance mystery novels. The mystery was really interesting at first, and I felt like that played a huge factor in the speed with which I read this book. However, I was really not satisfied with how the story went. I was really invested to it until around 60% of the novel, and then I just didn't care about it anymore and just wanted to get it over with. 

The main factor of my dislike is that I hated the male protagonist/love interest. He kept lying and being suspicious, and although learned towards the end why he had to go to such lengths, I didn't recover the trust and interest I had in him in the beginning. Overall, I liked his character at first, but then just grew to distrust him as the lies piled on. He just didn't win me over, so the romance part - which is a huge part - of the novel just didn't work out for me.

I think overall, I just hated all the lying in the novel. Towards the end we all learn that it's for the good of the main character, but still. It constantly bothered me and I just started disliking the novel once everything came out. The book features and interesting concept, but it just didn't work out for me.

Shelby has been on a car accident. To stop the panic attacks, her mother enrolled her in a clinical program which also erased her memory of the accident. Upon returning home and back to school, she can't help but feel strange - as if there's some piece missing - especially when she met the boy who she thought was only a hallucination.

I could say that this is the first book I've read with this kind of story. However, I am not completely new with the amnesia kind of thing. It reminds me of one of the local TV series that I liked, Got to Believe. Snippets of Chichay enter my mind when she remade her past with Joaquin when I read the part when Auden, the mysterious boy Shelby met, makes an effort remember their past and to remember him. It was a bittersweet scene for both of the stories and it's sad to know someone you love has forgotten you, literally.

Before reading this book, though, my mind has been prepared for one thing: predictability. From the title, synopsis, and book cover, I have already know what might happen or who she might have been forgotten. And it did happen. Most scenes has me feeling cliche too. Perhaps I have read too much contemporary YA and have been graduated from that teen romance stage that I feel like their relationship was shallow and the book lacking.

Good thing there's something unexpected happened. An unseen twist in the end that brought excitement. And how I missed that feeling! That pound in my heart as I unravel the mystery. Though some parts felt liked rushed and too perfect for the given situation, I still liked that the author left something for the readers to wonder as the story ends. I also picked up something from the book.

"None of us know what's going to happen tomorrow. All we have is today. We have choices to make. There's enough pain and injustice in the world to make someone angry or sad their entire lives if they let it."

"Every day is a choice. It's not just about what we do and where we end up but the emotions we embrace in our hearts."

I hope you'll enjoy Remember Me Always if you decide to read it!

Thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for the opportunity to read this book!  Remember Me Always by Renee Collins is a bit of a dystopian because of the mind memory erasing. Shelby is the victim of an accident she can’t remember because of a memory-erasing treatment. In her latest treatment session, Shelby sees a young man that she doesn’t remember. Later, as she sits waiting for a capture-the-flag game to end, that young man approaches her and cautiously says hello to her. His name is Auden. Little by little, Shelby gets to know Auden and he helps her fill in parts of her memory that she’s lost. Complex, dynamic characters help build this into a strong story that’s hard to put down. The story is mysterious because everyone seems to be hiding something from Shelby and suspenseful as she begins to unravel the mystery surrounding her missing memories. Justice and the importance of faith in one’s self come through in this realistic fiction for young adults. 5 stars!
*I received a complimentary copy of this book for voluntary consideration.

Let me start this review by saying a huge thanks to Sourcebooks for letting me part of this tour! I fell in love with this book and honestly, it's one of my favorites for this year. So huge thanks goes out to them for bringing this book to my attention. 

When I asked to be part of this tour I didn't know much about this book and I sometimes enjoy it that way, I love jumping into a book not knowing what's going to happen or what's already happened in this case. I didn't even read all of the summary but at the same time I couldn't wait to jump into this book. I'll be honest all I read was the first two sentences of the summary before I wanted to read the book. That right there shows me as a reader that this book is going to be amazing and I wasn't disappointed in the least.  

I instantly fell in love with author Renee Collin's writing style and couldn't make myself put this book down, seriously I couldn't even put it down to eat or cook dinner. The storyline caught my attention and I just had to know what was going to happen next. I mean who wouldn't want to forget something in their past and especially something like Shelby needed to forget. (Don't worry that's not a spoiler its in the summary lol)

Imagine a treatment that would completely cure PTSD. No more panic attacks. No more breakdowns. Seems crazy, right? Renee Collins has created a story where that treatment is real and can be used to erase negative memories that trigger PTSD like symptoms. Intrigued? I was! I wanted to know how this treatment helped the lead character Shelby ... or messed her life up. Shelby is a normal teenager that went through a horrible situation and was struggling after. After under going treatment she feels better, but in some ways she feels like part of her is missing. 

I loved Collins' way of writing that made me feel anxious when Shelby was anxious. I connected so well with Shelby that it drew me into how she was feeling. An author who is able to do that is a great writer. Every time I thought I knew what was coming next the story would take a turn and I'd be back to guessing. This kept me on my toes and guessing the whole way. Page by page the story built with flashes to back story and little puzzle pieces slowly coming together. Collins balanced the build of this story well to be perfectly paced from beginning to end. I never guessed the ending, which is a large bonus for my love and rating of a mystery/thriller novel and it didn't come off as unbelievable. 

Collins put together a fine piece of work with Remember Me Always. Well built characters with full and interesting back stories and a story that will keep you flipping pages until the very end. A true page turner. This book is good for all ages. I'll be picking up the next book by Renee Collins!

Remember Me Always by Renee Collins is an intriguing young adult novel with an interesting premise and a multi-layered storyline.

Over the summer, Shelby Decatur undergoes a somewhat extreme treatment to erase her memories of a car accident that are causing her severe anxiety, panic attacks and PTSD. Now home, her excitement at beginning her senior year of high school is tempered by an underlying, low-level sense that something is not quite right. Having recently experienced a tantalizing fragment of memory featuring a young man, Shelby does not know what to think when she discovers the teenager from her recollection is real. She is even more stunned to learn that she and the young man, Auden Keplar, were in a two year relationship.  Auden wants to try to resume their romance and although Shelby is drawn to him, his intensity is a little unnerving. Although she cannot remember their romance, Shelby is willing to give him a chance but when she discovers he has been less than truthful with her, will she continue to see him?

Shelby often feels out of step with the rest of her small hometown. She has big dreams of becoming an actress, but her controlling mother is rather forceful with her attempts to dissuade her from leaving town. Shelby is initially very reluctant to trust Auden and in his zeal to convince her to give him a chance, his behavior is uncomfortably close to stalking and obsessive. At Auden’s urging, she keeps their renewed friendship a secret from her mom and her best friend, Grace. Shelby is enthusiastically embracing her resumed relationship with Auden when she learns he has been keeping some very serious secrets from her.

Meanwhile, Shelby is beginning to suffer from nightmares that fill her will an incredible sense of unease. Her anxiety levels are increasing and she is uncertain whom she can trust after her relationship with Auden is discovered by both her mother and Grace. Shelby comes to the realization that she needs to recover the memories that have been erased but will it be possible for her to remember what happened the night of the accident?

Remember Me Always is an appealing young adult novel with an innovative storyline and well-developed characters. Shelby’s quest to recover her traumatic memories offers her the opportunity to stop running from problems and instead face them head on. Grace’s predicament with an ex-boyfriend is an important demonstration of when a relationship crosses the line into abuse.   While some aspects of the plot are easy to predict, Renee Collins brings the novel to a surprising conclusion.

"Remember Me Always" is a really fascinating and intriguing YA fiction that touches sci-fi and romance. Shelby is getting ready to start her senior year but finds herself recovering from some experimental treatments over the summer which reminded her memories of a terrible accident that had given her PTSD and panic attacks. Although everyone around her knows what happened, Shelby can't remember a thing.

At a repeat treatment, something goes wrong and Shelby sees the face of a boy she doesn't know. Things become more complicated when he shows up in real life. Even though all her other memories should be intact, Shelby feels that there's something missing and no one will tell her what's going on. The strange boy that she almost remembers, Auden, seems to be her only path to figuring out what all she lost.

Trapped in a small town, where her mother seems to want her to stay, Shelby has big dreams of being an actress. However, she is still piecing together all the parts of her life that were torn apart by what happened and what she forgot. It seems as though her mother had them take more than just the accident from her memory- they removed a two year relationship with Auden. With the feeling of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," this book charts the territory of memories and their significance/meaning towards being our full self.

This book was really captivating in the mystery of what actually happened and motives of everyone who has their version of the truth plus the overarching theme of the value of memory- even when it is painful. It was a really fast read and hard to put down! I absolutely had to read to the end to figure out what and why Shelby forgot. The ending was really fantastic too. As all the truths unravel for her, there were so many ways it could go. I think the ending chosen was absolutely the best possible. It's really well written and fantastically well done. I highly recommend it!

Please note that I received an ARC from the publisher though netgalley. All opinions are my own.

I thought the story completely changed at the end.  It's almost like it became another book.  I think teenagers and young adults will enjoy the love story, but will be confused be the change in plot.

Shelby voluntarily has part of her recent memory erased prior to starting her senior year of high school. The part of her memory that is expunged deals with a traumatic event in her past. After the memory removal she knows that something happened in her past but isn't quite sure what. Then she starts getting hazy memories of a car accident and a boy. Upon meeting that boy in real life, she is shocked when he tells her that they used to be a couple. She has no memory of this. She wonders why these memories would have been removed if only the memories of the trauma were supposed to be removed. The more she becomes involved with this boy, the more questions she has and them more she wonders who might be lying and who might be telling the truth. 

This is a great read with some really intriguing twists and turns.