What do you do when the love of your life forgets?Not the good times.Not the love.Not the passion.But the pain and heartbreak and betrayal.He doesn’t remember that he broke my heart.But I do.He doesn’t remember the darkest parts of our marriage.He doesn’t remember that six months ago, I said goodbye.What do you do when the love of your life remembers your marriage but not your divorce?
I’m in pieces in the best way possible.
This is the second book of QB’s I read in one sitting. This book is everything! It’s a amazing story of heartbreak and repairing that break. Olivia and Bennett are the best! This book is not for the weak of heart, this book will rip out your heart but it also puts it back together and brings you back to being whole. I cannot recommend this book enough. As always QB had stolen my heart again!
Forever and ever
QB Tyler hit it out if the ballpark with this book! Forget Me Not will grab you from the first page and consume you until the last page. My emotions are all over the place. The Kind of love that ‘Clarke and Livi’ have is what we all want in life and QB Tyler brought that love to life in those pages. She also put us right in the middle of all the pain and sadness they were going through. The sexual tension and scenes in this book were so good and I think it had a lot to do with how much we could see the love they had for each other. If you want a book that has a Sexy Alpha Hero and a Sassy Heroine filled with love (so much love), sadness, regret, hope, lol moments, and steamy sex then grab this book. This is like no other!
Spoilers ahead-Do Not Read Further if you hate spoilers!
Bennett really loved Olivia and he was a bonehead. My heart bled for Olivia and how she suffered through his cheating. I was really liking Bennett and his devotion and passion for Olivia. Even knowing that he had cheated with Amanda, he didn’t remember doing the deed and I still had hope. But after finding out that he continued their relationship after Olivia left him, well that kind of broke my heart.
It was still a four star read because the author did a great job of pulling the emotional heart strings with the ups and downs of their marriage. I hated Amanda as much as Olivia did and couldn’t stand the lies she told. At the same time, she was out to get Bennett, and he certainly lead her on.
I like reading about marriages that are failing but somehow are revived with the couple becoming stronger than ever together.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Wow! I received an ARC of Forget Me Not on Friday, and spent the weekend immersed in Olivia and Bennett’s world. What an angsty contemporary romance that had my emotions all over the place. There were so many times I wanted to throw my Kindle across the room, but my need to know how this would end had me holding on for dear life.
Tyler brings her A-game as she takes you on an emotional, tumultuous journey you won’t soon forget. I certainly won’t.
If you like your romance bumpy, if you enjoy a rollercoaster of emotions, and if you just want a storyline to suck you in and not let go, then get one clicking!
Amazing Read.
In Forget me Not QB Tyler has out done herself. She delivers her most emotionally draining, complex developed relationship to date between Olivia and Bennett, a troubled married couple. In this ingeniously derived plot, QB asks the question what if the one who broke your heart no longer remembers the heartbreak but only the love?
This premise leads us on a captivating journey which takes us through the incredible highs of the early years of the relationship down through their fall, and their fight for a possible future. The novel is so beautifully written that you will find yourself pausing to appreciate the skill of QB. One particular flashback is written with such expertise that I dare you to read it without grinning ear to ear.
QB always delivers white hot chemistry between her MCs and this one delivers it on a different level. By adding the emotional layers and history of these characters, the chemistry explodes off the page.
Livi and Bennett will remain with you long after you finish their story. Easily a ten star read.
Forget Me Not
Written by: Q.B. Tyler
This book is solid emotions…from beginning to end..straight up emotions.
From Bennett Clarke waking up with amnesia to readers reliving with them, how they met, how their marriage was and how it ended – emotions. The highs and the lows of a marriage that outsiders would have envied, their need for each other, the fact that just looking at them showed you how they seemed to be meant for each other, then add it their combustible sexual attraction to each other, they were almost perfect together. Until the loss, the grief, the self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy build walls that are so strong they may never be knocked down.
But, brick walls aren’t put up by just one party; which makes it harder to knock down. That is if both parties want to knock it down and try to rebuild what was who they once were. As we read through Bennett working of memories from two years ago we also get to see both points of view. Olivia’s and Bennett’s and we see how the communication broke down and learn how each of them has suffered.
I know cheating is a non-starter for some people and I understand, personally I found that their foundation was solid until the loss of two pregnancies. That by no means excuses it, but it gave me an understanding of how a strong couple could be broken.
I didn’t put this down once I started. I was involved and had to know what happened, when, why all of those things and I felt for each of them. Can trust be earned once and then lost forever? Can a love as strong as the one they shared just die? Can second chances and trust actually heal a broken relationship?
I was willing to give Q.B. Tyler the room she needed to let me see Clarke and Olivia for who they could be and in the end; I thought Clarke and Olivia where just where they needed to be in life.
This book was my first read by QB Tyler and I loved every second of it!! This story was heartfelt and emotional with the perfect amount of tension and drama attached. The story of Bennett and Olivia is told with a collision of past and present together. Reading their story I could feel the love they had, and relate to the struggles they endured. This story truly reflects that everything happens for a reason.
Bennett and Olivia had a romance where it was truly love at first sight and everything fast tracked from there. The marriage was everything and more, and they were as entangled in their love as they were each other. Bennett was sexy, rich, and successful. Olivia was beautiful, intelligent, fierce, and independent. Together they were a power couple who lived in the honeymoon phase of their love.
After they experience a traumatic event their marriage takes a turn in which they cease to communicate, and you begin to watch their love unravel. Rumors, false accusations, and misunderstandings are the final blow causing them to part ways. in the middle of divorce proceedings Bennett has an auto accident and loses his memories taking him back to his early marriage with Olivia. As to not upset Bennet’s recovery Olivia agrees to live together and try to help him with his memories. From there new truths arise, feelings are rekindled, and they begin to wonder is it truly love lost…
This book was amazing, and its one that you read over and over and still get butterflies!
I’m a torn about this book. On one side it was definitely interesting and tackling current issues in today’s marriages: effects of miscarriage / infertility, infidelity, poor communication.
On the other, I didn’t relate or like any of the characters. Aside from the intense sexual nature of their relationship and the obvious co-dependence going on, there was nothing else of substance there. They were almost never fighting so when shit hit the fan, they didn’t handle it well.
After about 5 years of blissful marriage, they decide to have kids. Olivia had two miscarriages. She didn’t seek medical advice, she just went straight to feeling depressed. What she went through is very accurately depicted mind you.
Lack of communication, lack of sexual connection drove Bennett to a one-night stand because sexual chemistry was at the core of their relationship. After confessing the next day, Olivia asked for divorce immediately.
Another 6 months went by where he hooked up some more with his one-night stand and she tried to move on with someone else while finalizing their divorce. By the way, the rebounds were really creepy and I feel it was overdone to emphasize just how great the main characters were together. Bennett got into a car accident and got amnesia, forgetting the last 2 years of his life. Olivia agreed to help him get reacclimated and he did everything to get her back.
I’m sorry I didn’t like this story more because the author did a great job at describing what happens to a couple when they have a miscarriage. The woman feels a lot of shame, she closes off, the man doesn’t know how to help but he is hurting too.
DNF
So I read the blurb and it sounded cool. I don’t read about cheating my dad was a serial cheater on my mom so it’s something that bothers me a lot. I didn’t know about it going in. If I did I wouldn’t even have picked it up. Saying you want to win your ex-wife back while still being with the woman who you cheated on your wife with is really proving it. The friend being like it’s complicated as an excuse. It’s not. I’m going to honest I read the prologue and then I skimmed he did nothing to make me like him. So no thanks.
This book is about a man who suffers from temporary short-term memory loss. The author’s ability to create a likable but guilty hero in this novel is incredible. You want him to win even though you’re also mad at him. That’s a talent! Love all of Q.B. Tyler’s work.
QB Tyler has become one of my favourite authors this year. There isn’t a book by her I am yet to pick up and enjoy. All her characters are diverse, with her plot twists different. And this continued into Forget Me Not – An emotional second chance romance.
This story follows Bennett & Olivia, and their marriage struggles. After being married for 8 years, Bennett makes a huge mistake which finds them living separately for 6 months and filing for divorce. Until Bennett is in an accident which causes him to lose his memory of the past 2 years, with him waking up and being incredibly in love & happy with his wife; Olivia. Not realising they are currently going through a divorce, with both also having moved on with someone else.
Olivia, still being his wife legally, then is his direct carer in nursing him back to health. This puts Olivia in an emotional spot as she remembers all their pain over the last 2 years, even if Bennett is suddenly acting like her old husband she use to be head over heels in love with.
Bennett doesn’t understand how he has chosen someone else over his one true love, Olivia. He breaks up with his “girlfriend” within 24 hours of being awake and his a new goal of winning back his wife Olivia, before their divorce is finalised.
The emotions are so strong in this book, as well as the lust. Olivia & Bennett have an incredible physical connection, which leads them to the emotional connection. They find themselves back into an old pattern, but the past is always there on their shoulders. And even though either wants to confront it, they must to move on to a healthy marriage.
I got annoyed at Olivia throughout this story. Yes Bennett majorly fucked up. But I feel like Olivia made it worse with how she reacted. I don’t condemn cheating and I was so mad at Bennett for being so selfish, but Olivia I felt was also quite selfish too. Especially at the way she handled breaking up with David as soon as Bennett was back her life.
Overall, it was a 4/5 star with 4/5 steam for me.
As life takes a turn in a young woman life of trying to get pregnant, but is having a miscarriage on the third time takes a toll. This is where Olivia is at and shut out her husband and he has an affair and she couldn’t and wouldn’t let him explain himself. Thevstorybtake on a life of it on after Bennett losses his memory and don’t remember he is separate from is wife. But the doctor tell Olivia she needs to help him to regain his memory, by letting him stay with her. So this is a problem she doesn’t want to do.
4
Spanish & English Opinion
ESP ::
Este es un libro acerca de una infidelidad. No condena o aboga, simplemente narra la historia de una pareja que sufre la situación.
Es un ejercicio maravilloso de empatía y de hacer crecer la mente. Está muy bien escrito y es muy buena historia. Tiene final feliz y Clarke ruega y ruega. Me encanta eso.
Recomendado.
ENG ::
This book is about infidelity. It does not promotes it nor condemns it, it’s just the story about a couple that goes through it.
An amazing opportunity to learn about empathy and to open the mind. Perfectly written and the story is really good. Also, a HEA and lots of groveling from Clarke, which I loved.
A deeply romantic story, QB brings all the feels…the peaks and valleys, mistakes and misunderstandings, passion and regrets. I loved it!!
I picked this up on a recommendation from a KU group as I like this trope of amnesia romances. I wish I hadn’t.
I read up until the 12% mark and thought what the hell is going on here….. there was infidelity on both sides (it doesn’t matter if you reach a full happy ending, sex is sex). I wasn’t sure if anything else could make this worse and apparently there is. After looking at some reviews and seeing what else was installed for me, I knew I couldn’t keep reading.
This is my first dnf book in a very long time. I try and give every book a chance. But when people are yelling and screaming at each other, not just the main characters, this is not the escapism I look for in my books.
Things that I don’t like in books: Cheating, already married/established couples with flashbacks, angst. All of which were in this book. Thank God I am doing a reading challenge that required a book about cheating, and that I already had this book in my library, or I would have missed this gem. It was so perfectly done, and was exactly the right time for me to read it. I have never read a book by this author before, and was so impressed with this one, that I can easily see her becoming a favorite of mine. There were no errors that I saw, the story flowed perfectly, the flashback scenes were well executed, and I felt the pain and emotions of the characters as they were going through them. Writing at it’s finest, and I highly recommend this one, even if you’re like me and would typically shy away from it.
Bennett & Olivia whoa, this book was recommended to me by Stefanie Jenkins(who i am so sorry i had forgotten that Stef had actually got me into this read. Sorry girl Love you xx) and it did not dissapoint let me tell you. I have never read a book before about a spouse committing adultery on the person they love, not deliberately anyway not when they are hopelessly in love with their partner.
So I went in not expecting to read what had actually happened. I loved Bennett from the first minute he spoke, not that I did not love Olivia.
I cried for her hurt on losing her husband to infidelity, I struggled to understand what could have gone wrong, especially when all through the read Bennett idolised the ground she walked on. Her pain and suffering was real and QB Tyler made me feel it.
When Bennetts memory returned I felt even more for him and what he had done, I dont condone what he did, he chose to drink in a bar alone, and feeling the way he did about his situation with Olivia, no good was going to come from his actions of being there.
Olivia although stoic throughout her husband causing her so much pain, I still felt had not dealt with what had led up to the demise of their relationship.
the passion between these two were hot and completely off the charts. I devoured this book as fast as I could and hated the fact that I had to put it down to go to work and attend to everyday life things.
I held my breath a couple of times, I yelled at Olivia to “Wake up” .
I just felt if there was such passion and love between these two in the past and still now Bennett had regained his memories why couldnt they sort there shit out.
Just Bennett’s guilt alone had me crying and holding in my sobs and feelings.
My only angst with Bennett was how he was still with the woman and in a relationship with since Olivia. I get people move on and so did Olivia, but not that they really moved on they were just existing.
How Olivia was able to be in that hospital room with “the other woman and an X M.I.L was something more thatn I could of handled.
This was the first n0vel I have read by QB Tyler and I cant wait to read something else that she has written. This was definitely a book I will recommend, it was heartbreaking soul searching, life teaching in some ways, and made me realise not all things we see and hear are what they seem. Not all infedelity is the same, not that excuses make it right, its the journey towards it and the fight to hang on to what is worth having to keep in the long run.
Thank you QB Tyler (less)
4.75 stars
I love reading stories that leave me thinking, especially when I believe I have everything figured out and then this story hit me right straight in my face.
I always try to find myself in the books I read, and being married made me feel even more in Olivia’s shoes. I’ve read several stories of broken marriages and how difficult is to deal with everything in between that mess. Although, Bennett and Olivia’s story was so much more. It talked about a delicate topic, one I knew for sure how I would have reacted, and while reading I discovered (once again) that not everything is black and white, however difficult it may seem.
I felt Olivia’s pain, but most of all I felt Bennett’s regret. He stole my heart and he’s one of my favorite male characters. So sweet and caring, yet so strong and masculine.
I really love this story, everything felt so real, so painful described in a beautiful way.
I can wait to read more of Q.B. Tyler
Oh Bennett…ugh. Cheater alert – my fave – and I LOVED this one. But for real the reason he chose to cheat and continued to do so while trying to win his wife back made me want to punch him in the face – twice for good measure. It’s got angst by the boat load. While I was furious with Bennett, I was so disappointed in Wren, Bennett’s best friend and Olivia’s best friend’s husband, for putting Olivia in a position to be forced back into his life. She could have said no, but the circumstances around the reason softened her up to going along with it. I’m all about second chances, but Bennett is one guy I would have tossed to the curb and moved on. I don’t care how much chemistry you have – his cheating and reason behind it was an on offense that was not redeemable. Perhaps the first time I could see…placing the blame on being drunk, but the others, nope!
Solid 4 stars!
QB Tyler’s best work yet! I have read all of QB’s work, multiple times, and Forget Me Not is not only my absolute favorite of hers, but my favorite of the year.
Olivia and Bennett are 100% the most real couple I have read in a long time. Their relationship, marriage, and issues are raw and emotional; true to what a real life couple will go through.
I have never felt more connected with written characters as I did with Olivia. She’s strong, independent, and of course, emotional. Her thoughts and actions are shown beautifully throughout the novel, and you can’t just help but to connect with her on some level. Personally. Emotionally. Whatever it may be; you will see yourself in her.
QB’s Forget Me Not is a rollercoaster ride of a couples journey together. Fighting to be together. Loving one another through anything. Struggling through life’s moments. Cherishing each other.
Tyler has this uncanny ability to pull at your heart strings when reading her words. I love that the most about her and her writing. She’s pours everything she has into her words; her stories; and more importantly, her characters. It shows. Always.
Olivia and Bennett are relationship goals at its finest. They struggle and almost lose one another; however, they persevere and love hard. They work hard at what they want; each other.
I can’t wait to see what’s next for her. Although, I’m pretty sure Forget Me Not will always be my favorite of hers.