Forget Me Not [Import] [Unbound]

Elizabeth Lowell (Author)

Product Details

• Unbound
• Publisher: Perfectbound (May 2002)
• ISBN-10: 0060506873
• ISBN-13: 978-0060506872
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)

More About the Author

NEW YORK TIMES Bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell has numerous historical and contemporary novels in print, including her four-book series of suspense novels featuring the unforgettable Donovan family--AMBER BEACH, JADE ISLAND, PEARL COVE and MIDNIGHT IN RUBY BAYOU. Ms. Lowell's current release, DEATH ECHO, is Book 5 in her St. Kilda Consulting series and features twin yachts, international gangsters, and plenty of romantic-suspense. There are more than thirty million Elizabeth Lowell books currently in print. Ms. Lowell lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband.

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sensual, allegorical love poem. Still a keeper!, June 24, 2000

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Summer Belle "Word Affectionado" (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forget Me Not (Mass Market Paperback)

Rafe is a man who survived hell as a POW (sort of). He survived by dreaming of his love, Alanna. Only when he "returns from the dead", he discovers the woman he loved enough to live for didn't love him enough to wait. . . she was "happily married" to her singing partner. He's filled with bitterness and never tells anyone he's alive. Alanna is disgusted with herself for her loveless, marriage of convenience. She discovers Rafe still alive & tries to reconcile with him, but he rejects her. Alone, despondant, she goes back to her husband.

But she's no longer the girl she was and Jack senses their careers are over and convinces Alanna to go camping one last time. Admidst a storm, Rafe's bitterness, Alanna's memory, and Jack's life is washed away.

Rafe vows to set Alanna free by giving her bvack her memories and her life. The fishing scenes are all metaphores for his dreams for Alanna. She's the elusive trout, he's the hungry fisherman. Trying to lure her from the depths of her own fears, trying to convince her that being with him is better than being anyplace else. His hooks are all barbless - she won't be killed coming to the surface.

The result is a love story that makes me ache for the pain of two people trying desperately to reach each other through miles of tangled memories. The allegories make this more poem than prose and I loved it.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't judge Elizabeth Lowell by this book, August 27, 2001

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N. Kerns (West Lafayette, IN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forget Me Not (Mass Market Paperback)

This was definitely my least favorite of Elizabeth Lowell's novels. I sped through it because I wanted to get it over with, not because I couldn't put it down! The "complication" makes no sense. Rafe's big secret, the one he's so afraid will mess up his relationship with Alana once she gets her memory back, is laughable. No woman would be mad at him for what he did! Another complication that makes no sense is the reason why he allows Alana to believe he's dead after he gets back. (What happened to him while he was gone is mentioned once for about one paragraph. It sounded intriguing...but we'll never know. So much for character development.) He's mad because she got married to somebody else. Dang, man, who cares if she jilted you, you were her friend, right? And when she finds out he's alive he still acts idiotically. "I refuse to acknowledge her because she married someone else." Please. The amnesia plot soon becomes tiresome as the reader figures out what the heroine forgot long before she does, and spends most of the novel waiting for her to catch a clue. By the time she does, you've stop caring. Elizabeth Lowell is a great writer, but this is a stinker. Avoid it and read "Only Love", "Winter Fire," or "Reckless Love" if you want to know what Lowell's capable of.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Skip it, June 30, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Forget Me Not (Mass Market Paperback)

This book horribly boring. The plot and characters were so thin you could see through them. You learn nothing about the characters except how angry/scared they are--not even why they are supposed to love each other so much. I have read several other Elizabeth Lowell's and this book seemed like it was written by another, much less talented author. If you must read it, check it out of the library.