Remember Me — Sophie Kinsella
Alexia Smart has had an accident and what she can’t remember is how she transformed into the wonderful looking woman that is peeking at her from the mirror. How did she become the director of her department and how she got the palatial loft and a Greek-God husband who also happens to be a millionaire.
Overview
Alexia, popularly called Lexi is truly low. She didn’t get her bonus just because she was one week short of a year which was required to be eligible to get a bonus. Her feet hurt due to her shoes that are one size short. It’s her father’s funeral the next day. She was stood up by Loser Dave, her boyfriend and here she was standing outside a pub drenching in rain trying to hail a taxi. And she slips and hits her head.
Next, Lexi wakes up in a private wing of a hospital with glossy hair, well-manicured nails, and perfect white teeth. She has no idea how all this happened overnight. She also happens to have a Louis Vuitton bag which she could, so not afford and also a multimillionaire husband, Eric. It turns out that Lexi had a car crash five days ago and all she can remember was that night from three years ago, the night before her father’s funeral. She has amnesia and can’t remember a thing since 2004 and the present year is 2007. She has no idea how she landed a husband, a trendy loft, the post of a director at Deller Carpets where she was an Associate Junior Sales Manager and a bitch-from-hell attitude which even made her friends, Fi, Debs, and Carolyn, aloof from her.
What happens next is Lexi tries her best to fit into the new lifestyle but which is so unlike her. She tries to win around the department staff who totally loathe her. She is fighting to get hold of her work which she has no idea and with Byron after her job, not making it all easy for her to pick up the pieces together and start working. Meanwhile, she also learns about an alleged affair with Jon, Eric’s architect. So, what seemed like a dream life to Lexi turns out to be a hellhole.
I liked
When Fi comes to Lexi after the ‘post-it disaster’ and their aloofness ends in just a few minutes. Friends are invaluable and just the way they are so comfortable within each other’s company shows how friendship is never lost, is never awkward and can lift you up during the most stressful of times.
The rows and rows of sunflowers on Jon’s balcony with their story going back to their relation pre-amnesia is something special and unique. Of course, how long could that be continued is a question of logic. ;)
When Lexi accidentally sets the security alarm and that too on the promotional night of Blue — 42 lofts with potential buyers all present there, is somewhat funny and how Jon handles the situation is well thought.
I didn’t like
As a whole, I didn’t quite like the book. I don’t know, there were pages that I just skimmed over and there was nothing gripping as in other novels by Sophie Kinsella. I mean it gets too repetitive. Same plot, the same type of main characters, girl having trouble with her job, feeling inadequate, and having average looks. A man with super good looks, great business, highly successful, millionaire, and somehow finding the heroine interesting and beautiful and falling for her, having so much time for her that seems almost impractical and ultimately ending in the happily-ever-after.Well, it may be because it’s my 6th one of Sophie’s book in a row. But it was a so-so read for me.
Bottom Line
A good read if you have nothing else in particular. Sophie Kinsella’s writing is witty and always encircling a romantic encounter so the majority of the mass expected for this genre (chick-lit) isn’t going to be disappointed. Please let me know what you think.
We do not remember days, we remember moments. — Cesare Pavese
