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Remember Me?
Lexi Smart wakes after a car accident to find three years missing from her memory. She has a millionaire husband and a powerful job, but can't remember acquiring either. The old colleagues she expects to greet as friends seem to hate her.
From the publisher’s blurb
“a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament”Read the full description at Dial Press publisher description
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What makes it funny?
Before the accident, Lexi has a boyfriend who wants everyone to call him Butch and friends whose karaoke makes a taxi driver refuse them a ride. Her running commentary punctures their ambitions while admitting her own insecurities.
The comedy at work
The memory gap makes Lexi a stranger inside her own apparent success story. Her bewilderment gives the glamorous marriage and executive lifestyle an awkwardness that the old, self-doubting Lexi recognizes more easily.
Try this if…
Romantic intrigue and office politics told by a narrator who can turn an embarrassing evening into a detailed account of everyone's bad decisions.
Good to know
The opening includes swearing, sexual conversation and grief over a parent's death. The central setup involves an accident and memory loss. Publishers Weekly found the outcome familiar and some of the supporting cast exaggerated.
More funny contemporary romance
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