Molly and Liza have been best friends since childhood. They have been through so much together, but life has been getting in the way recently. Especially since Molly got married and had kids and Liza moved to Chicago. They only have time to connect one evening over Skype when Molly's husband is out of town. Molly runs off to see to a child when Liza sees a masked man enter the house hours away. Liza is so terrified for her friend. There isn't any response when she calls and the police think that she is a kook. She gets in the car with her friend, Max, and drive through the night to get there. And she is shocked to have Molly slam the door in her face. She was still stunned when she returned to Chicago to find that her apartment had burned down. She has no choice but to return to Cincinnati and try to move forward. Meanwhile, Molly is trying to hold it all together. Not only has her marriage stagnated, but she has put her family in jeopardy by trying to take the easy way out. And she still doesn't know who the man was in her house, but she suspects she knows why they were there. Will Liza and Molly be able to solve their problems and repair their lifelong friendship?
Forget You Know Me was more drama and less mystery than I was expecting. I like both Molly and Liza, despite the fact that they were such different characters. Neither was perfect, that is obvious. Liza is a little messed up from the fire that destroyed her home and killed her neighbors. And Molly has made a mess of her family's finances. And she hasn't told her husband. Not to mention she and the widowed father in the neighborhood have gotten too chummy. I could even understand why Molly was shutting Liza out, but it also annoyed me. And I could see why it annoyed Liza, too. Poor Liza was so terrified from the fire and I can understand why. It was pure luck that she was not in the building when it went up in flames. In a way, Molly saved her life, yet Molly was hardly speaking to her. Overall, the ending was just okay. We got our answers, but I also think there were a lot of unresolved issues between all of the characters. -- CLICK HERE FOR SPOILERS
Bottom Line - Forget You Know Me is a book that explores the lives of two less than perfect women and how they deal with fairly normal stressors in their lives. Life, love, friendship, and marriage are all messy and complicated. It is how you handle it that matters.
Details:
- Forget You Know Me by Jessica Strawser
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- Pages: 336
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Publication Date: 2/5/19
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