A+ for Forget Me Not. This was a great read that keeps you guessing. Maddie is in her hometown for her best friend Nora's memorial, she's been missing for 10 years. There are still so many questions unanswered and then Nora's younger sister Noelle is found murdered in the same spot that Nora's abandoned car was found 10 years earlier. Maddie is determined to get answers, but to what extent?

Thanks to NetGalley for a Kindle ARC of Forget Me Not in exchange for a honest review.

Forget Me Not opens up with your typical cliche storyline; a beautiful teenager with everything to live for has been missing for 10 years. On the 10th anniversary of Nora's death, her younger sister is found dead.

Okay, I was a bit intrigued so I gave it a chance but this is what I found on the pages:

1. The investigation is botched by the bumbling police force and some of the suspects have ties to the force. Hmm...not suspicious at all.

2. Noelle is also a gorgeous young woman (all the vics are gorgeous in these books) because unattractive people are never victims.

3. There were A LOT of characters. Now, supporting and secondary characters are fine. Siblings, colleagues, lovers, BFFs, no problem.

But there were an endless stream of people popping in and out, misfits, the waitress, the cops and what's up with the pretentious names like Louden and Hale? Is Hale very hearty as well?

4. I don't know about you but I would never tell my lover or BFF my password for my social media accounts, maybe my sister, but it wouldn't occur to me. Maddie logs in and out of Nora's and Noelle's accounts with ease, searching for clues, as if she's Veronica Mars.

5. The narrative is slow and lacking in tension and urgency. There are no shocking clues, no unwrapping of twists and turns.

There are plenty of flashbacks and reminiscences, Maddie alludes to her nervous breakdown and her tight connection with Nora and her family and brothers and sisters.

Exposition is fine, giving us background into the vic but there is such a thing as too much. It read like filler for the most part.

Maddie plods along, in conjunction with her unremarkable personality, trying to deny her feelings for Nate as well as she replays old memories of Nora ad nauseaum.

6. I don't think its professional for a Special Agent (or anyone in a official capacity) to have drinks and beer with people involved in an investigation..

7. None of the characters are interesting, witty or smart, and a incredible lack of suspense left me feeling tired, and not in a good way.

What happened to Nora? It took me a bit to be drawn into this story and characters because the pace starts off a bit slow. But hang in there, it definitely picks up. With two mysteries surrounding this family a decade apart, the plot is realistic and keeps you guessing. I wasn't a big fan of the main characters but they were intriguing none the less. The ending shocked me, I never saw it coming. I will be reading more by this author.

OMG.

Why. WHY. WHY do you use so many words to say one thing? Why? This is like that episode of Friends where Joey uses a thesaurus to write a letter to the adoption agency.

This is the story of a girl whose best friend goes missing when they are 17. 10 years later, 10 memorial services later, her friend's little sister, who is now 17, is found dead in the same spot where her sister went missing.

Said girl investigates. Danger happens. The secret of what happened to Nora comes out, and we find out who dunnit.

Riveting stuff, right?

This book is actually incredibly long for its genre, and I guarantee you I could easily remove minimally 100 pages without losing any of the plot. Because OH MY GOD.

"Casual cruelty had never been a part of my relationship with Nate, had never formed an integral part of our language. If our silences had no give to them anymore, then neither did our words. They were brittle, ready to break at the slightest of touches."

"When he rang Elle's phone it went straight to voicemail and a bubble of panic began to build somewhere near his duodenum, and Noah looked on, his wide brown eyes taking everything in."

I need a quiet corner after this book.

Thank you to Killer Reads & Netgalley for this ARC. Wow do I have thriller fatigue. This got such raving reviews I thought this would be another one I couldn't put down, but I was just bored and confused. Too many characters, too cheesy of a plot line, it just didn't seem plausible, and was a stale story line that I've read all too often. If I am picking up a book, I want to get lost. I want to travel somewhere else (not the state I reside in - Hello, Wisconsin!), live someone else's life, even if it is turbulent and stressful. I couldn't even get excited about picking this one up, so I am sorry, but this was just not for me.

FORGET ME NOT by AM Taylor is a gripping suspense story. Well worth the read. It will grab you from the first chapter and keep you guessing until the end.

I really am undecided about this book. Found it a bit slow & repetitive & took me a while to get through it. Also found it a bit hard to follow at the start with so many characters & then calling character different things like Noelle/Elle & skipping back between past & present.

Enjoyable and rollercoaster of a read. Gripped me from the first page and didn't stop. Great story telling and well developed characters

Forget Me Not is difficult to follow as the author goes into the past and present. She does make sure readers know when the past is happening but it happens into between chapters instead of making the past an entire chapters.
Forget Me Not has way to many characters to keep track of and the author could us a cast of Characters list at the beginning of the book so readers could keep everyone straight.
The story moves along at a snails pace. Just when action happens it seems to slow down soon after leaving readers to skip pages to find the true story. The ending was very predicable and felt rush as if the author has to keep the story to a certain word count. Which makes this story in need of either better pacing or editing that can remove areas of the story that are less important to keep the ending important instead of rushed.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher Killer Reads for the advance copy of A.M. Taylor Forget Me Not

I started this book a couple of times but I just couldn't get into it I'm afraid. I really wanted to as I hate giving up on a book but it just wasn't for me.

4-5 stars. A taunt, chilling, twisty, thrill ride, that grabs you from page one and doesn't let go until you finish. This is one of those books that I love getting to read, because it's so intense from the beginning and you know there's more to come. The author is great about getting the characters to convey a thrilling chill. Will be highly recommending.
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Just finished this read! Overall I think it was good - a little slow to build but I was engaged in the mystery and link between the sister's murders. I find myself frustrated with the narrator and her inability to leave the situation to professionals, but if it were my best friend I would probably do the same :) Mads is tougher than she gives herself credit for.

The only thing I wish is that we got to know Nora and Noelle a little better. While I was invested, I wanted to know more about the characters to help me care as much as Mads does.

Would recommend to a friend!

Forget Me Not by AM Taylor was a great story but not a great as I was hoping. The story dragged in parts and there were so many characters. At times it got confusing but all in all I enjoyed it.

Nora disappeared 10 years ago. She has never been found. On the anniversary of her disappearance her little sister Elle is murdered and her body found in the same place Nora's abandoned car was 10 years earlier. Nora's best friend Maddie has never really recovered from losing her friend and is determined to find out what happened. The ending was a bit predictable and rushed but still it was a good read.

Thanks to Harper Impulse/Killer Reads and NetGalley for my advanced copy of this book to read. All opinions are my own and are in no way biased

I’m on the fence about this one. It had twists and a very good conclusion but I didn’t love the narrator. She said early on that maybe if the disappearance of Nora occurred when she had been older or younger she may have coped with it much better. She was 17 and those sensitive teen years left her stranded in an emotional limbo. Unfortunately for me, I can grasp her inability to move on but it was hard to read about.

The writing is fine. It’s descriptive, maybe too much so. It took a while for the action to kick in instead stressing just how damaged a state Maddie, our narrator, is in. Once things started to move along she becomes a stronger, more enjoyable character. The conclusion is appropriate but I would have enjoyed an epilogue to see how the characters were dealing at the next anniversary of the disappearance, closure. The story is a good one once it gets moving.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author, and Harper Impulse and Killer Reads for a copy in exchange for a review.

Unfortunately, I figured out who the killer was rather quickly and because of that I didn't really find the book to be one that I couldn't put down. It was more like, well I will finish this because I have already invested time in reading it. I can say that I did enjoy the going back and forth between the past and present. Overall, the book did not hold my interest until the end and I found myself starting another book while only having read half of Forget Me Not. I was expecting more of a climatic ending than what I got. The ending ties in the two murders and then just ends. It is what it is and not all books will be five star reads.

Can lighting strike twice? On the eve of Nora Altman’s 10th anniversary of her disappearance, family and friends gather in a vigil as has become customary. However, on the day of her anniversary, her younger sister Noelle (Elle for short) is found murdered in the same spot where Nora disappeared from 10 years previous. Maddie, Nora’s best friend has never gotten over her friend disappearing and has had a major impact on her life being the root cause of depression etc. Maddie is reeling, can this be happening again, are the two related, surely they have to be? Maddie seeks the truth now more than ever, what happened to Nora and what happened to Elle?

I thoroughly enjoyed this book having read it in the day, I was totally gripped, I felt like Maddie, I had to know, the more she dug the more she found out and some things she didn’t know about which gave her some peace in a way as she felt Nora was still around in presence as she was finding out new things about her. To be honest, I hadn‘t worked out who it was or why as there were plenty of red herrings with motives to boot.

If you love a good mystery psychological thriller, then I would highly recommend this.

Many thanks to Netgalley, Harper Impulse & Killer Reads and of course A.M. Taylor for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

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Well, I don’t know quite where to start on my review of Forget Me Not. I started reading with high expectations but I could not get into the story being told. There were too many characters and they were not identified clearly. I could not determine who was speaking which made it hard. I had to spend too much time trying to determine which character was. which. The storyline was okay, two murders of two sisters had taken place and the best friend could not quit trying to figure out who was responsible. She does a lot of sleuthing on her own and all her friends tell her to to move on with her life. She just cannot do that. As the reader, I had a hard time with the style of writing and honestly skipped over some of the narrative. It wasn’t until about 70% into the book, that I became involved in finishing the book. I had guessed the killer before the end of the book, but it did not detract from the ending. It was an okay book for me, but I had wished for more. I was given an advance copy of this book from NetGalley for an honest review. The views are all mine.


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A quick mystery, but not as engaging as I would have wished. It was interesting enough - it tied together the murder of Nora, Maddie's best friend, ten years ago -- and Elle, Nora's sister in 2018. A nice easy psychological thriller that didn't make me anxious, or worried about staying up too late, but was easily and quickly resolved at the end of the book. Nicely written, nothing too out of the ordinary, but also not bad. I would recommend it if you want something mildly formulaic but still a bit of a mystery about it. I enjoyed it, but the characters were somewhat 2 dimensional and predictable.
A nice easy fall/Halloween read.
Not a bad lot all in all. Would read again.

3.5 Special thanks to Harper Impulse and Killer Reads for giving me an advance copy of this book to review!
This book followed the emotional journey of a woman named Maddie who struggles to move on from her best friend’s (Nora’s) disappearance 10 years prior. Things get suddenly worse when Nora’s sister is killed on the anniversary of her sister’s disappearance. Maddie spends the book trying to work through the grieving process and find answers to the murder cases.
I love a good murder mystery and this was no different. I enjoyed the ending and the closure it brought the reader. I do, however, believe that some of Maddie’s inner dialogue was repetitive without bringing new insights to the plot. There were several times when she recalls that she and Nate used to be so close that they could communicate without spoken word. If the book had omitted some of the redundancy I would’ve given it at least a 4.5

What happened to Nora? One night, years ago, young Nora went missing with barely a clue. Her best friend Maddie was as perplexed as everyone else in their small town. And now, ten years later Nora’s sister Noelle goes missing in eerily similar circumstances.

Maddie is determined to figure out what happened to Nora as well as Noelle. I love an, old-fashioned “who done it” type of story and Forget Me Not by A.M. Taylor has all the elements of a good mystery: a town grieving for the sad deaths of two young girls, a woman in pain over losing her best friend, the setting of wintery Wisconsin, the brother of Nora and Noelle is standoffish towards Maddie, what is he hiding?

An awesome story!

When Maddie met Nora, their friendship felt as easy as breathing. And when Nora disappeared, all the air went with her. Without her best friend, Maddie’s life became impossible.

Ten years later, Nora is still missing and Maddie is still searching. People have been questioned. People have even been accused. But no one has managed to find Nora.

Then, in the same spot where Nora went missing, the murdered body of Nora’s little sister is found. Convinced this is no coincidence, Maddie resolves to uncover the killer and find Nora – dead or alive. But will she be able to cope, when we learn what really happened to Nora…?

Due out in October!