Sophie Kinsella takes a stab at writing an amnesia fic with Remember Me?: A Novel and I thought she did a pretty good job of making a cliche'd plot seem fresh.
Lexi Smart, ordinary girl with a loser boyfriend and bad hair days, wakes up to find that she has magically become a different person. She discovers that it is not 2004 as she thinks, and that she has no memory of the past three years. Lexi has somehow woken up to the life she has always dreamed of - she's rich, she's a successful businesswoman, she's thin & gorgeous (!) with perfect hair, teeth and clothes, and get this, a freakin' gorgeous hunk of a millionaire husband Eric. Like, wowza! If only we all woke up to that fairytale too, huh?
Pretty soon though, Lexi discovers that things are not as rosy as they appear. She can't quite strike up a romantic spark with her new husband, none of her old friends like her in the present time, and her new-self is this cold-hearted, cut-throat person known for being a holy terror of a boss.
Lexi can't get a handle on her new life and job, and on top of everything, she finds herself attracted to her husband's friend & business colleague Jon. Imagine her shock when Jon tells Lexi that they were having an affair and that she was about to leave her husband for him before she got amnesia!
What a terribly muddled turn of events, right? Yes, the amnesia schtick is overused, but Sophie Kinsella manages to coax a funny, fresh and ultimately, heartwarming and love-affirming story out of it. You will cheer Lexi on as she tries to rediscover herself and reconcile who she was with who she had become.
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