As I’ve said before, Sophie Kinsella is one of my favorite authors. She can turn anything into a funny adventure with exciting characters who progress throughout the story. This is the strategy she takes among most of her stories, including Remember Me? The novel revolves around twenty-five-year old Lexi Smart. Now, Lexi, like everyone else, is not perfect. She doesn’t have the perfect life, let alone the perfect body or smile. However, after getting into an accident, she wakes up and it seems as if she’s entered an alternate dimension. After waking up in the hospital, she finds out she has a toned body, perfect teeth, a gorgeous husband, and a perfect life. The doctor tells her she got amnesia and, much to the despair of Lexi, has lost three years of her life. Lexi grows accustomed to this new life as she’s ravishing in the luxuries that she now has. However, nothing is perfect; Lexi learned this the hard way. At a dinner with her “friends” and husband, a not-too-bad-looking architect gives her news that shatters her perfect life to pieces.

This book has two of my favorite things: comedy and romance. This may not be the best thing for me because I’ll often spend my days watching or reading romantic comedies instead of having a social life, not that I mind. Anyway, I love that Lexi gets to find out that “perfection” isn’t the best thing to have. I feel like too many stories, or even movies, revolve around the main character trying to become perfect or trying to get the perfect life. Kinsella takes the opposite approach in Remember Me? and the majority of her novels. Lexi is able to accept that the life she has maybe isn’t the life she wanted. The thing about perfection is that it makes you keep up with too many expectations that others have for you. Lexi from three years in the future may have become more successful, but at what cost?

Lexi gets to find out who she is throughout the novel, this includes discovering the type of person she wants to be seen as. She was so concerned with how others saw her, something I can personally relate to. However, throughout the novel, Lexi is able to free herself from the expectations of society. This is beneficial to her and those around her, some of whom she started to disconnect from after she lost three years of her memory. I found this book hilarious. I mean, she wakes up not even knowing how she got married. You already know something funny will ensue, especially when it comes to their lives as a couple. I recommended this book to my friend, who enjoyed the plot, so hopefully all of you will enjoy it as much as I did.