Written by Mhairi McFarlane, Don’t You Forget About Me is a novel set in a small English town and follows Georgina as she looses her dead beat job, finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman, and has the true love of her life walk back in only to not remember her at all.
THIS IS NOT A STORY FOR CHILDREN
There, that disclaimer is out of the way.
While I enjoyed the story, and loved Lucas the ex, the writing is what set this back for me. The first chapter was terrible and confusing. After that, it got much better and by the end was great, but the first chapter.
The characters were interesting and the main characters had a lot of depth and SO MUCH GROWTH. While this is a romance, it is really more about the growth of the main characters than it is them falling in love. The love bit is really only at the very end.
Georgina is a very real character that I think a lot of people can relate to. She knew what she wanted at one point, but after being broken she just… never really learned how to put her self back together. And couldn’t admit that she had been broken.
The plot is the other strong point for this novel. The writing might not be great, but it has strong characters and a strong plot.
This isn’t a novel for die-hard romance novels; this is a novel for someone who wants a novel about love, forgiveness, and what it really means to move on, find yourself, and find your people.
