Item: Forget You Know Me
Rating: 2
Author: Joy

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Forget You Know Me by Jessica Strawser

Released February 5, 2019
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When a video call between friends captures a shocking incident no one was supposed to see, the secrets it exposes threaten to change their lives forever.

Molly and Liza have always been enviably close. Even after Molly married Daniel, the couple considered Liza an honorary family member. But after Liza moved away, things grew more strained than anyone wanted to admit—in the friendship and the marriage.

When Daniel goes away on business, Molly and Liza plan to reconnect with a nice long video chat after the kids are in bed. But then Molly leaves the room to check on a crying child.

What Liza sees next will change everything.

Only one thing is certain: Molly needs her. Liza drives all night to be at Molly’s side—but when she arrives, the reception is icy, leaving Liza baffled and hurt. She knows there’s no denying what she saw.

Or is there?

In disbelief that their friendship could really be over, Liza is unaware she’s about to have a near miss of her own.

And Molly, refusing to deal with what’s happened, won’t turn to Daniel, either.

But none of them can go on pretending. Not after this.

Jessica Strawser’s Forget You Know Me is a “twisty, emotionally complex, powder keg of a tale” (bestselling author Emily Carpenter) about the wounds of people who’ve grown apart. Best, friends, separated by miles. Spouses, hardened by neglect. A mother, isolated by pain.

One moment will change things for them all.

I must admit, I’m very unhappy with this book. I feel like I was completely misled by the synopsis, I believed that I was going into a suspenseful thriller and I wasn’t even sure what I was reading because it was more women’s fiction and was more about these women’s friendships and relationships than the masked man that came into the house.

I felt the masked man was more of a comma than a period, like it was brought into the story just to bring an element of suspense and aargh! I was just so frustrated!

I think that with a different blurb and different expectations I would have really enjoyed Forget You Know Me. The writing was excellent and they story was interesting, I’m just upset at not getting what I wanted and expected when I opened this book up.