This book literally had me on the edge of my seat as I read it- all in one sitting! So much going on in an amazing what happens next kind of way that you won’t want to put this down- I obviously didn’t!

Siri, Who Am I? by Sam TschidaBook publication date: May 5, 2020

When a young woman wakes up in the hospital with amnesia, she only knows there's a head wound under her very trendy haircut, and that her phone addresses her as both "Mia" and "hello gorgeous." While perusing her phone, she discovers that Mia is the kind of person who does not have her mother's phone number, but does have a massive amount of followers on Instagram.  As she follows her digital footprint around southern California like Sherlock in Chanel lipstick, she uncovers a woman leading a troubled life. Matchmaker, Instagram Influencer, victim of foul play? Who is Mia, really? 

Fans of Alexa Martin's Playbook series may enjoy the hashtagged sass that runs through Mia's brain. However, I think this book has more in common with  California noir than a sunny romance. Mia is a little like Veronica Mars--a shallow, more manipulative Veronica Mars--and her investigation turns up a satisfying amount of grime behind her curated online persona. 

This review is based on an ARC via Netgalley. This review is also available at the Eisenhower Library blog (https://eisenhowerlibrary.org/tag/book-review/ ) and Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3213059133).

Mia wakes up in a hospital bed with a head injury and no memory how it happened. All she has is a bright yellow designer dress (that she keeps wearing over and over and over) and a phone with a broken screen. After the hospital discharges her (and basically dumps her at the curb with no assistance in making sure she has someplace to go and an adequate after care plan) she uses her phone to try to find her identity. Through her photo library and Instagram account, she is led to a home she assume is hers. However, there is a house sitter already in residence and none of her personal effects. She buddies up with the hottie house sitter and they begin investigating to find out who she is.

Flimsy premise with many improbabilities. I spent most of the book silently yelling at Mia to do some obvious things: start calling everyone on your contact list! Look at your other social media accounts! Why don't you just flat out tell some of these people you have no idea what happened and you need help? Do you secretly not really want to know who you are? DRAMA much?!

We pack a lot of personal information on our phones and to not be able to find any personal information is unlikely. I think this could have been a much better book if the point was to highlight how much of our identities our devices hold. I did finish the book, but it was super "fluff" reading. Definitely a book to pick up when you know you want something to read, but you need something you will not have to pay a lot of attention to.

I received an advanced copy of this book through NetGalley. I read the premise and loved it! I thought it would certainly be a fun read with some intrigue to it and I was curious to see how Mia's story panned out and who she ended up realizing she was. It was a quick read, thankfully, but the story didn't exactly play out the way I thought and/or hoped it would. In reality, a lot of the characters, Mia included, were not likable or relatable and the more that we found out about pre-coma Mia, the less likable she was overall. Going through the whole mess of figuring out her life and who she is wasn't as fun or mysterious as one imagined it would be and the use of Siri helping her figure it out was not nearly as often as you'd think either. Overall, the story and characters fell short of expectations set by a fun title and premise.

Rather fast paced and in the present time of smart phones and ipads, I enjoyed this adventure around and through Los Angeles with Mia and her lost memory. Once she meets Max, the journey of pulling back layers upon layers of Instagram and text messages, leads them down the rabbit hole of Mia's life before the accident. And was it an accident or attempted murder?

I read Siri Who Am I in two days. It’s about a woman who wakes up in the hospital and has amnesia. She literally asks Siri who she is. It was an entertaining read. Little bit more spicy language than I care for but still a good read. It was fun to learn about Mia’s life alongside her.

The premise of this book is what drew me in initially. Mia wakes up in the hospital and has no idea who she is or what happened. She has to resort to using Siri and Instagram to piece together her life, and the more she uncovers, the less she likes the person she used to be. I loved Mia’s voice- she’s snarky, impulsive, and a little stubborn. She’s determined to find the truth about herself regardless of the obstacles that face her. However, the further you get in the book, the less believable the story becomes. I thought this was a fun read but you have to suspend disbelief to really enjoy it.

Even though the premise of this book was kind of ridiculous, and the characters were kind of unlikeable, I still weirdly had fun reading it? It was just the right amount of over-the-top antics and fluff to keep me reading. I particularly got into it during the second half and big reveal of the mystery, and I kind of wish there was more of the storyline with the female friendship. I don't feel like it hit on any particularly interesting commentary about social media and technology, which it was trying to do.

I couldn’t connect with this book. Maybe because I don’t watch tv and I’m not into social media. I’m 53 and I just couldn’t connect with Mia. I’m thinking maybe since I’m 53 and find the whole concept of sharing your whole life on social media just bazaar. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

I think I can make this short, the more you read the less you like the heroine IMHO and by the end she is trying to do something with her life and makes some really stupid decisions that only work in a fairy tale world.
The thing about this book is that every time I was about to put it down and find something better to read it would throw me a bone of interesting and I would read a bit more and finally finished it and felt pretty unsatisfied with the way things turned out in general although there a re a few good things.
So I gave it 4 Stars and then decided that was too high a rating for this book so I reduced it to 3, maybe it was 3.5 and I rounded down but I felt that the guy who had really shown her love got the shaft in this story that falls squarely into the "this really could have been a much better story with a bit of effort" category So 3 Stars

This is a light, fun, current novel. A young lady, Mia, finds herself in the hospital after having suffered major brain trauma and has no idea who she is. However, physically, she is well and must leave the hospital. She pieces her life together using her social media posts and basically uses these pictures and posts to lead to the clues of herself, where she lives, who she knows, and what she does for a living. Is this, perhaps, a reason to make frequent social media posts? Her story progresses rapidly as Mia discovers her name and who she thinks she is and what she has done with her life. This well-crafted, quick moving story takes several twists and turns before it reaches the end and Mia really discovers who she is.

I may be too old for this book. I liked the premise but the reality was a really poorly written book. The worst part about it were the non-stop footnotes. Here’s the thing about footnotes: they don’t work on a kindle. I recommend removing them because they were so distracting. If this is a YA book it could be perfect. It’s not meant for those of us in our 40’s.

Suspension of disbelief is extremely necessary for this one. Maybe even expelling it altogether? The convoluted story of Mia's memory loss made absolutely no logical sense and she was often pretty grating as a character. I was along for the ride at first but as the mystery of her identity just kept dragging on I rapidly lost patience. The California Instagram influencer culture satire is strong, and I think the author came very close to making an excellent point about image and truth and being knowable, but I just didn't enjoy this as much as I thought I would from the description.

The general concept of 'Siri, Who Am I?' is great; supposedly rich girl wakes up having lost all her memory and only her phone to help her identify who she is. However, I found the story too far-fetched.... what hospital releases someone having suffered a head injury with no memory?! WHAT?! The story line lacked and I found that there was little character development throughout the entire story. All in all, if you're looking for a mindless, un-relatable read then you'll enjoy this but if you've come across the book hoping that the concept has been well-executed, then give it a miss.

First, thank you to NetGalley and Sam Tschida a million times over for allowing me to read and comment on an advance copy of “Siri, Who Am I?”
This is a madcap rom-com perfectly tailored to the Age of Instagram. However, it definitely requires some suspension of disbelief. Okay, it requires a TON of suspension of disbelief towards the end, but come on, this is a rom-com, not One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. That said, it could be the Gen Xer in me, the lawyer in me, NYer in me, or just my current domestic drama/hard-boiled kick, but something prevented me from liking this a lot more.

I usually do not like memory loss trope but this book had a different plot than the mainstream. I did not realise that I was up for a soft mystery read when I started this book. Mia has no idea who she is before Siri tells her name to her but unfortunately not her surname. And she has to go to great lengths to know her surname. Heck, she even got the address to her home through Instagram photos and hashtags!! This is different than the normal soppy Amnesia romances that you might have read, I thoroughly enjoyed this book though I didn't expect myself to enjoy as much as I did. This book is a journey of Mia discovering herself and starting a new life after waking up from coma and doing the right thing instead of doing things right.
But I think the title is a bit misleading. The title made me feel like she gets to know everything from Siri but instead she gets to know most of the things from Instagram. It was more like " #whoamI Instagram ".

Nonetheless, I loved this book. I cannot say how realistic it is in its many scenarios but I do know that the Amnesia part was realistic. Mia is a strong character who does not feel pity for herself and instead tries to get her life back. None of her actions will make you feel like 'this is nonsense' because you would be able to relate with her in all her actions and decisions.

Super easy fun read. As long as you "understand" social media, that is. If you don't this book will be out of your range. I didn't realize that this book was a cozy mystery going into it. It's definitely a mystery. Heck, she has no idea who she is or why she woke up in the hospital after a 2 day coma. And why was she wearing a yellow Prada dress on a Tuesday night? But yet she knows everything else about life. Just no facts about her own.

The book is written like she thinks. If you are not a fan of first person books, this book is not for you.

Will she figure it out? Will she be alone in the hunt for info? Will she end up alone? All of these questions will be answered in the book.

'Siri, Who Am I?' tells the story of a young woman, Mia, who wakes up in hospital with short-term amnesia. With the help of Siri and a man called Max, Mia works her way through her old Instagram posts to piece together her life and work out who she is.

As a woman in my late twenties, I was looking forward to reading this book. I expected a story that told the journey of the main character's self-realisation, in addition to humourous references to the life of millennials e.g. avocado on toast.

However, I'm afraid that I really didn't enjoy the story at all. The plot seemed completely implausible right from the beginning (the hospital releases a patient who's had a knock to the head and admits that she doesn't know who she is or where she lives). The book seemed to rely on the played-out storyline of a woman waking up with amnesia and realising that something isn't right (I'm not against this storyline at all; I've just read books that have done it a lot better)!

On top of that, the main character was obnoxious, not one of the characters has any common sense, and all of the males were quite pathetic in their desperation to please the main character.

Finally, who doesn't enjoy a good Instagram filter? However, the amount of hashtags used throughout the book was #cringe.

To summarise, the plot of 'Siri, Who Am I?' could have been interesting, but it failed to live up to my expectations.

I was so surprised that I loved this book, and can safely say that I've never read another one like this. The main character, Mia, wakes up from a coma in a hospital, with a head injury and amnesia. The hospital practically shoves her out the door (which I found very strange). She only discovers her name by asking the Siri assistant on her cell phone, hence the title. Mia discovers that she has apparently recorded her entire life on Instagram, and begins working her way backward trying to find out little things like where she lives, what she does for a living, if she has friends or a boyfriend, etc.

She finally makes it back to the house of the man who is her boyfriend, only to discover from the house sitter that he is on a trip overseas. The house sitter is a post-doctoral student named Max. She and Max drive all over Los Angeles (with frequent stops for tacos), looking for clues to Mia's life. It turns out that Mia has a foot in two very different worlds. I'll say no more because this journey is far too much fun to spoil.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for allowing me to read and review this book. All opinions expressed here are mine.

Mia awakes from a coma with no idea who she is or where she lives. With the help of Siri, her iPhone and Instagram, and Uber, she arrives at what she thinks is her home, where she finds Max, a postdoc house sitting for the owner. With Max's help, Mia has memory flashes and slowly discovers who she was. Not happy with what she learns, she is determined to reshape her life. I couldn't stop reading 'til I got to the end. Loved it!