✨REVIEW✨
Forget Me Not
Julie Soto

sugar, spice, and everything nice!!!

-Sacramento, CA setting
-grumpy x sunshine
-dual POV + jumping timelines
-wedding planner who never wants to get married and a florist who didn’t really want to get into flowers
-squeal-able banter that had me cheering for these two!

ok yeah maybe some parts are too good to be true but that’s the fun of getting lost in this romance! easily one of my favorite romance reads this year. If you loved Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez like I did, I think you’ll LOVE this!

doughnuts, weddings, flowers - how could I NOT love this book?!

Julie Soto has debuted with a stellar novel Forget Me Not, where darkness meets sunshine and cynicism meets romance between two wedding industry folks who once dated and are now forced to work together for a large celebrity wedding.

Ama is a wedding planner who loves to plan the most romantic and special day of her clients lives but cannot imagine getting married herself. Whole planning a huge celebrity wedding she is forced to work with her ex, Elliot, a florist who would someday like to find love and wedded bliss. As the two work together on this wedding,outsiders, aka the celebrity couple finds the chemistry between Ama and Elliot to be top notch.

The question remains, do these characters end up finding love together or do they end up going their separate ways. And how do they feel about one another once this wedding is finished?

Julie Soto has written a story that inspires, it takes us through all the feels and genuinely made me want more. The characters as re brilliantly written and relatable. And the storyline is one that I never wanted to stop.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to read this book early! I really enjoyed it. I thought the writing was very well done, and the story kept me interested. I believe my students/patrons would also love this book and will be acquiring it for the library!

Forget Me Not tells the story of a wedding planner and a florist, both looking to make names for themselves in their industries.
Ama Torres, a wedding planner who doesn't want to get married herself, loves giving couples the perfect wedding based on getting to know them and creating friendly relationships. After this caused her issues with the company she worked for due to "crossing client/planner boundaries," she decided to start freelancing.
Elliot recently took over the family floral shop, where he is determined to create new and innovative flower displays for weddings and other functions. Elliot loves commitment and doesn't see a point in dating for fun or just for the present.
When the two work together to pull off a HUGE celebrity wedding, their past feelings and brief relationship creates tension that everyone can see.
Forget Me Not is a second-chance romance in the wedding industry. I loved the supportive nature between the two MCs and how both had separate lives outside of one another. This book takes place over a few years with a non-linear timeline where the reader gets to go back in time to the main characters' fling and see where it all went wrong. Ama and Elliot's story goes at a great pace for me, and I overall really enjoyed it!

I love a good grumpy/sunshine book and this one was pretty good. It had many funny moments and I liked the relationship that developed between Elliot and Ama. I loved the wedding planning parts and how supportive they were of each other's businesses.

Elliot’s character/perspectives were a little hard for me to get into at first. He seemed gruff and abrupt just for the sake of it, but as the story progressed he grew on me.

I’ll still be checking out future works from Soto.

Thank you to NetGalley, Forever, and Julie Soto for an e-arc of Forget Me Not in exchange for an honest review.

An adorable debut and humorous second chance romance featuring two people who work in the wedding circuits.

Elliot, a brooding flower shop owner, and Ama, a cynical non-committal wedding planner, met while working for other people’s, you guessed it, weddings. Should be a recipe for romance, right? However, Ama broke Elliot’s heart two years ago and has never been with anyone seriously since. Here come two brides bent on engaging Ama as their wedding planner and Elliot as their florist in a career-making and high-profile wedding that’s sure to get national attention. Now forced to work in a creative collaboration, they must decide what matters most in their lives, their livelihoods or their happiness.

I enjoyed this book a lot that I practically inhaled this in a single day. I believe this will make for a fun and romantic movie, too. It has everything I love in a second chance romance, the angst, longing and regrets that come with separation. I wish I could’ve seen more growth from Elliot’s perspective, though, aside from his new tattoo. There are times that I got pulled away from reading since he’s not just brooding but absolutely rude as well. Also, I don’t think Ama’s reason for being a commitment-phobe has been truly dealt with.

This will not be my last from Julie Soto and I will surely be on the lookout for her future works.

Thank you to Forever, NetGalley and the author for my copy. All opinions are honest and my own.

Um hi yeah, hello I'll be back to write a coherent review of this amazing book after I pick myself up off the floor that I just melted on.
This book y'all. It's spoken to the very depths of me and my hatred/love of weddings/proposals and validated my reasoning on never wanting to get married because it might not work out. (Spoiler alert- I am married 10 years now with the most perfect person for me who's only rule is that divorce is never on the table so take what I say with a grain of salt)


If you are looking for a reylo romance this is for you. If you want a romance to root for this is for you.
This was the cutest frickin love story I've read in awhile and I feel like the best of the year for me. I loved it so much!

First time reading a book by this author and I absolutely loved it! The characters drew me in from the start and the relationship build up was perfect. I am also currently planning my own wedding, so I really enjoyed all the little details that were discussed. I will be following this author moving forward for more releases.

this was phenomenal!!!! the whole time I was like PLEASEEEEE GIVE ME A NOW ELLIOT CHAPTER … THEN BAM IT WAS PERFECT AND EVERYTHING I NEEDED IT TO BE!!!! idk I loved everything about this. I can’t lie and say it didn’t start off a tad slow but when it picked up we didn’t stop. The characters we likeable and the wedding planner x florist was suchhhhh a nice change of pace. AND THE SPICE ATE. I have no complaints.

This was a light read with depth, the writing style was lyrical and not like a typical romance but still fun and spicy.
The characters were great, the MMC was extra grumpy with sweet moments.

So sorry - I didn't get the hype for this book at all. I love second chance romance. It's probably my favorite trope, But these two felt like they should have stayed broken up, lol. I didn't feel any sort of connection beyond the physical. No romance. No feels. Too much about wedding planning. Idk, just not for me. But luckily I'm the outlier!

I did not post this publicly anywhere else because I prefer to only share positive reviews. Thank you for the chance!

There's so much spinning in my head, I'm not sure how to make it all come together for a worthy review. This book is everything I love. Grumpy/Sunshine, Second Chance Romance, and the angst. I loved it. I heard this may be a type of fan fiction, which I've never been a fan of, but if this that, I've changed my mind. The characters Ama and Elliot are so great. Ama the super nice, go with the flow girl, and Elliott the total not always nice. Love, love, love! Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this fabulous story.

I love a wedding! This was a fun read getting into all the wedding planning bits and seeing how it was pulled off however, the romance felt flimsy. I didn't feel invested in the couple as much as I wanted to be. It's good but not great.

I. Freaking. Love. This. Book. I’m officially obsessed with Soto’s writing, and she is an automatic buy author for me now. This book was sexy and passionate. The characters were raw and real. This is the grumpiest grumpy v sunshine I’ve read in a long time, and I’ve realized I need more characters like this. And Elliot, the main male character? *chef’s kiss*

Hero is a jerk! I could not get through it because I did not remotely see the appeal. But good for reader's advisory.

I know this book is pretty popular, but I just didn’t like it. I dnf’d at a little over 50% because I couldn’t get into the characters. I found myself increasingly frustrated with Ama and her interactions with Elliot. I also didn’t like the different timelines but I think that’s more of a personal preference. I may pick it back up in the future because part of me thinks this could be right book wrong time, but for now I’m done with it.

Fans of fanfiction will definitely appreciate this book! It may alienate readers who aren't as familiar with fanfiction in general, especially Reylo, but it definitely has potential!

I love second chance romance and this had all the angst and longing I look for in these stories. The characters were multi-faceted and relatable while still being unique. Can't wait to read more from Soto!

TW: Loss of a parent via cancer

Forget Me Not by Julie Soto is a Second-Chance Romance about Ama, an ambitious wedding planner who now must work with her grumpy ex, Eliot, a florist whose heart she broke, on one of the most important weddings of her career.

I personally do not seek out second chance romances, but oooh boy! I could hardly believe this was a debut. Julie Soto gives us a heart throbbing and beautiful story about two individuals who fall in lust and love. Ama’s talent for giving her clients the fairytale wedding of their dreams contrasts the happiness she denies herself. While Eliot’s own journey and disposition of being an aforementioned grump with a loveable interior who makes boutonnières for clients and more specifically, uses the language of flowers for the ones he gives to Ama (whether its flower love language or not, is something to find out in the book!).

While we get our second chances, our grumpy/sunshine dynamics, a spicy story, we also get a story of two individuals who care for each other and want each other to be the best versions of themselves.

My final thoughts: get yourself a donut, fresh flowers, and treat yourself with this story. I had been in a bit of a reading slump, but this kind of story was the right one to ease myself back and remind myself why I love books.

**Many thanks to NetGalley & Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was an adorable second chance romance with such believable characters! I loved the grumpy/sunshine trope, as well as the slowburn and how the book surrounded a wedding. The pacing and dual time line was done really well, and I was equally invested in the past timeline as well as the present. I was impressed with the writing as well since this is the author’s debut, and I’m looking forward to reading whatever work she publishes next!