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 enlarge | Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: The Dial Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  173 reviews
Sales Rank: 734
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0385338724
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780385338721
ASIN: 0385338724
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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 In a nutshell: brilliant book July 11, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's been awhile since a book grabbed me from the first page, but this one did. The characters are very well-developed and interesting from the beginning, and the addition of the mystery surrounding the lost memory and her transformation make for a very compelling story. I found myself actively rooting for Lexi - willing her to see what was so painfully obvious! And yet, despite the fact that maybe she's a bit too trusting and might come across as a bit dense (I mean, really, why couldn't she see what was so painfully obvious?) she's eminently likeable. Who knows how anyone would react being thrust into that situation? It's a frightening scenario, and I think the flaws in her lent a great deal of credibility to the story. And you're willing her to have the storybook happy ending.
As for the ending, I won't give anything away but I will say (despite the true cheesiness of the last line) I was impressed. It was handled very well and... I liked it. It was a great finish to an engrossing story.
Though I like the Shopaholic books, this one is in a league of its own. Okay, yes, it is still a 'chick' book, but one of the better done ones. I think it would make a brilliant movie. I would recommend it to anyone who likes chick-lit, and even a few people who aren't so keen on it. Try it, it might surprise you.
My Favorite Kinsella Book Yet July 10, 2008
I love Sophie Kinsella, but have slowly tired of the Shopaholic series. That's why I love it when she puts out non-Shopahlic books. This novel was no disapointment! It's actually my favorite Kinsella yet. I swallowed the whole thing in the course a day. Could not put it down. Kinsella takes an unrealistic topic, but makes it seem plausible. Her character's voice is addicting. Loved it! (Wish there was more love story at the end, though. I wanted to keep reading more! Would've enjoyed an epilogue.)
 How Did Lexi Become The Cobra? July 9, 2008
I picked up Remember Me? because a member of an online group I'm in suggested it. That and I like Sophie Kinsella. While her books aren't deep, they are fun. I've read all of the Shopaholic books (and, really, who hasn't known a Becky Bloomwood?) but I loved Domestic Goddess.
The premise is simple: Lexi Smart has a car accident and wakes up in a hospital thinking it's three years earlier. She has a husband she doesn't know and an entire life she doesn't recognize. Nothing in her current life is how she would expect it because it's very out of character. On the surface, it seems perfect: she's slimmer, gotten her teeth and hair "fixed", she has a millionaire husband, a beautiful loft and a great job. As she begins to piece together her life, she realizes that things aren't as perfect as they seem.
The characters are interesting, the story is fun and lightly suspenseful. It's not an "on the edge of your seat" story but the reader does want to find out how the hell Lexi became The Cobra. There is no surprise ending, but that's okay. Kinsella's niche is stories that entertain and make us care for the characters. T his one is perfect in that regard.
Remember Me? July 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Time flies, yet, probably not as quickly as it has for Lexi Smart.
When she wakes up in a hospital bed, she discovers that it's three years later and things are very different from the way she remembers them to be.
In fact three years ago, Lexi was a plain-Jane entry-level employee who was wallowing in self-pity, stood up by "Loser Dave" and about to attend her father's funeral. Fast forward to the present and she is now part of the elite senior management team at work, married to a gorgeous, rich and successful Adonis and her snaggle tooth smile is replaced by a pair of shiny and straight snow white veneers.
The perfect life that she's always dreamed of came to fruition right before her eyes. But who is she? Frustrated with the fact that her memory is taking way too long to come back, Lexi solicits a little help from her new husband who unconsciously unleashes a slew of mysteries behind the part of her past that she can't remember.
It seems that Lexi's trip up the ladder of success has been a wild one and as she begins to put all of the pieces together she discovers she's not too fond of the person she's become.
REMEMBER ME? is a fun, light, and romantic read that is well written and full of hilarious moments. Miss Kinsella has definitely done it again!
Reclaiming what you used to be July 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"I was a normal girl with frizzy hair and snaggle teeth and a crap boyfriend. And a fairly crap job, and friends who I had a laugh with, and a cozy little flat." - Lexi Smart
"I gaze into the mirror and my twenty-eight-year-old face stares back. How on earth did I get from me ... to her?" - Lexi Smart
Sophie Kinsella is author of the enormously humorous - and frivolous with a capital "F" - SHOPAHOLIC series starring Becky Bloomwood, spendthrift shopper extraordinaire. I know; I've read them all. In REMEMBER ME?, Kinsella takes a more sobering, but just as enjoyable, tack. I devoured it over the July 4th weekend, stopping only for unavoidable chores that I couldn't unload onto the wife.
Here, the heroine is Lexi Smart, who awakens in a hospital bed several days after suffering a severe crack on the head. To her dismay, the past three years of her life are totally forgotten. During that period, she had apparently morphed from a fun-loving but unremarkable, low-paid drone in Deller Carpets, where she worked with her chums Fi, Carolyn and Debs while dating Loser Dave, into a gorgeous, poised and driven senior executive of the same company and married to Eric, a handsome and charming multi-millionaire property developer. Her new existence contains everything beyond her wildest dreams, if only she could remember how she got them. But, as she gets acquainted with her "new" self, her apparently ideal lifestyle begins to show frays around the edges that threaten to unravel towards the center. Perhaps it's not so perfect? Indeed, Fi, Carolyn and Debs now snub her horridly. And what is Eric's reference to "Mont Blanc" all about?
For the reader who may wonder where life went wrong and wishes one could go back again, REMEMBER ME? demonstrates that, at least in fiction, it can be done. Like Becky Bloomwood, Sophie conjures Lexi with a fierce affection for the persona while putting her in situations that threaten to spiral deliciously out of control. Like Becky, Lexi has the core intelligence, goodness, and strength of character to muddle through.
Kinsella writes chic-lit par excellence. But even this male continues to be charmed.
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