Holiday Amnesia (Wrangler’s Corner #7) by Lynette Eason

Publication: December 1, 2018

Publisher: Love Inspired Suspense/Harlequin

Source: Publisher

Synopsis:

With no memory, who can she trust?

A deadly Christmas in Wrangler’s Corner

Robin Hardy survived an explosion in her university lab—but her memories are gone. With danger lurking behind every Christmas tree, she needs shelter from the attackers she can’t identify. She’ll trust fellow professor Toby Potter to safely hide her away. But when his secrets come between them, the truth could mean the difference between life and death this holiday season.

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I am a sucker for characters losing their memory in books and in movies. And when I saw Holiday Amnesia, my interest was piqued. I liked Robin from the beginning. She has a strong determination to figure out why she is in danger. She’s also understandably frustrated that she can’t remember anything leading up to the explosion. Robin knows she and Toby share a history; she just isn’t sure what it entails. Realizing that she needs help, Robin accepts Toby’s offer to get her to safety while she attempts to recover her memories. Is that the right thing for her to do? And why does it feel like Toby is hiding something?

Toby is a professor at the same university that Robin works at. He happens to find her after the lab explosion. He gets her to safety and vows to protect her at all costs. Right before the explosion, he and Robin were at odds. Knowing that Robin may push him away again if she learns the truth, Toby is afraid to tell Robin all he knows.  That may prove to be a costly mistake…

Holiday Amnesia was a quick and entertaining read. Even though this is a romantic suspense story, the romance was not front and center. Ultimately I found I enjoyed the mystery portion of the book more than the romance between Robin and Toby. But the story did hold my interest and the twist in the story was one I did not guess right away. This was book seven in The Wrangler’s Corner series. I hadn’t read the other books previous to this, but I didn’t feel lost starting with this book. I would recommend Holiday Amnesia to readers who enjoy quick stories full of suspense, action, and light romance.

RATING: 3 out of 5.

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Fall To You by Lexi Ryan Book Release/Review

New Adult Contemporary Romance

Release June 2, 2014

Fall to You is the second book in the Here and Now series. It is not a stand-alone and is intended to be read following Lost in Me. Hanna’s story concludes in book three, All for This. Torn between two men… When I woke up after the accident, I couldn’t remember anything from the last year—including my relationship with Max Hallowell or anything about Nate Crane. Now my memories are returning, but instead of answering my questions, they’re leaving me with more. The man who broke my heart and wants to be my future… Max is all I ever wanted, and now he wants to marry me. He’ll do everything he can to fill my life with love, family, and security. I need those things now more than ever. But can I trust him? The man who stole my heart and wants to let me go… Nate never made me promises, and I never asked him to. I’d been on the rebound, looking for a distraction, and he made me feel beautiful and wanted when I needed to feel those things most. He says he has to let me go, but what if I can’t let go of him? With every revelation and every passing day, I feel more like Alice down the rabbit hole. I’m falling. Who will catch me?

Fall to You continues with Hanna attempting to remember the events of her past leading up to her accident. And after that bombshell ending in Lost in You, I was dying to find out what was going to happen next with her. The story begins roughly three months before Hanna’s accident. We go from the past to the present like in the previous book. I liked being able to piece all of the information from Hanna’s past together right along with her.

Just when Hanna thought her life could not get anymore complicated or confusing….it did. And in a major way. I felt bad for her, but I also wanted to smack some sense into her at times. I knew she was insecure, but she ended up letting her insecurities override some of her decisions. Especially when it came to her and Max. She is beyond confused right now; her emotions and heart all over the place. I would not want to be in her shoes.

And this love triangle? It is a complicated one for sure.  She’s made mistakes…Max has made mistakes. How can they overcome that? And what about her feelings for Nate?

Just when I thought I knew who I wanted Hanna to end up with, I had to go and change my mind after reading Fall to You. I was all about Nate in the first book, but then I changed my mind and wanted Max to get the girl. Well now after I finished this book, I am a little torn on who she should pick. I don’t want either of these guys to get hurt, but I know that someone will. And that sucks. But thankfully the third book All For This releases sometime in August 2014! I’m so glad I don’t have to wait a year or more to see how all of this plays out.

P.S. In case you have yet to read the first book Lost in You, it is on sale for 0.99 cents for a limited time only!  And Fall To You is on sale for $2.99 for this week only! So grab both of them while you can.

RATING: 4 out of 5.

**I received this book on behalf of the Author and AToMR Tours as part of this book release event. Thank you.**

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About the Author

Once a college English professor, I now write full time. I live in rural Indiana, where, when I'm not writing; I get to hang out with my husband and two kids--a six-year-old boy and a two-year-old hellion, er, girl. Not surprisingly, reading and writing remain my favorite activities, though both come in bits and pieces these days, not the big hunks of time I enjoyed before I had children. When I'm feeling virtuous, I like to go running (I use that word liberally. I'm really, really slow) or do yoga. Don't worry, I'm always careful to balance out such activities with a hearty serving of ice cream or a chocolate martini.

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Lost in Me (Here & Now #1) by Lexi Ryan

Publication: April 6, 2014

Publisher: Ever After, LLC.

Lost in Me is the first book in the Here and Now series, a spin-off of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling New Hope series. This sexy amnesia love triangle is intended for mature readers. The last thing I remember is having drinks at Brady’s and trying to avoid eye-contact with my life-long crush—the gorgeous, unattainable Maximilian Hallowell. They tell me that was a year ago, but I have no memories of anything since then. What I do have is this ring on my finger that Max says he gave me, and this much-thinner body I’ve dreamed of most of my life. Aside from a case of retrograde amnesia, everything seems almost...perfect.  But the deeper I immerse myself into this new world of mine—planning a wedding to a man I don't remember dating, attempting to run a business I don't remember starting—the clearer it becomes that nothing is as it seems. Do I have the life I’ve always wanted or is it a facade propped up by secrets I don't even know I have? I need answers before I marry Max, and the only person who seems to have them is the angry, tatted, sexy-as-sin rocker Nate Crane. And Nate wants me for himself. Lost in Me is not a standalone novel, as the story continues in Here and Now book two, Fall to You, releasing in June.

I’ve always been intrigued when it came to stories of women losing their memories and then suddenly finding themselves in a difficult situation. Which is why this particular story got my interest.

Hanna wakes up in the hospital bruised and battered from a supposed fall down the stairs with an engagement ring on her finger from fiancé Max. The guy she has longed for since she was a teenager. As if having an accident wasn’t enough, she wakes up with no memory of the past 11 months.

Hanna is a great character. She is sweet, loyal, would want others to feel better before herself, and someone I would want to know in real life. But she is also insecure about her weight…which she lost a lot of over the last few months, and she’s insecure about her relationship with Max. It’s tough trying to move forward in relationship when you can’t remember any of it even occurring. But Hanna is determined to make the best of the situation.

“I feel like the universe wants me to see everything, to not take it for granted. The doctor said my memory will probably be back soon, so maybe this is the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to me. How many of us get to step back from our lives and see how perfect they really are?” “No one’s life is perfect, Hanna.” “You know what I mean.” “I do know, and it worries me. You’ve got stars in your eyes about your life, and in a couple of days you’re going to start living it again. I just don’t want you to be disappointed if it isn’t everything it seems.”

To make matters further complicated, there is a mysterious and sexy rocker that she shares a connection with…one she can’t stop thinking about. Plus her mom is very determined to make this wedding between her and Max take place very quickly. But she is equally determined to remember.

There is an air of mystery to this story as we get to see flashbacks of Hanna’s life months before her accident and try to fill in the blanks of what happened. I really enjoyed the story-line. More than I thought I would. The ending surprised me with something I in no way saw coming. At. All. So if you are a reader who can’t stand cliff hanger books, then at least hold off until the second book comes out in June.

RATING: 4 out of 5.

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Book Review: The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die by April Henry

 

Expected Publication: June 11, 2013

Publisher: Macmillian/Henry Holt & Co. (BYR)

Synopsis:

“Take her out back and finish her off.”

She doesn’t know who she is. She doesn’t know where she is, or why. All she knows when she comes to in a ransacked cabin is that there are two men arguing over whether or not to kill her.

And that she must run.

In her riveting style, April Henry crafts a nail-biting thriller involving murder, identity theft, and biological warfare. Follow Cady and Ty (her accidental savior turned companion), as they race against the clock to stay alive.

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Imagine waking up in a cabin in the middle of nowhere with no recollection of who or where you after. And on top of that hearing a man tell someone to finish you off outside. That is what happens to Cady, the main character in The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die. Talk about scary…

She has no memory of what happened to her before she woke up in the cabin. All she knows is that there are men trying to kill her. When she attempts different tasks like fighting the man who is leading her to her death or driving a car, the movements come natural to her, like she has done then a hundred times before. Sometimes her she gets random bursts of memory, but nothing significant enough to know what happened previously.

After she surprisingly and bravely escapes her captor, she flees in his SUV and ends up at a McDonalds where she meets Ty. Ty has a little bit of a mysterious past himself. He is in high school and lives basically on his own in an apartment with a roommate Jeremy. After the men who are after Cady come looking for her, Ty decides that there might be some truth to her story and decides to help her. From there it is a race to find out what is going on before the men in the suits or the police catch up to them first. It takes little to no time for the bad guys to start hunting her down.

From the onset, the story grabbed my attention. The more I read, the more my interest was piqued and I had to keep reading to find out what was going to happen next, who the really girl is, and what happened to her and her missing family. This is the first book by April Henry that I have read, but I look forward to reading more.   

Rating: 4 out of 5.

**I received this book on behalf of Macmillian / Henry Holt & Co. (BYR) in exchange for nothing, but my honest opinion. Thank you.**

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