Say You'll Remember Me

Not my favorite of Jimenez's works. The main couple is cute, but I don't love insta-love romances and this one just gets bleak with all the hits these characters have to endure!

SO CUTE

Review: Abby Jimenez has done it again! Another absolutely beautiful read that takes you on a roller coaster of emotions and leaves you with your heart full to overflowing. There’s a reason why Abby Jimenez is one of my favorite authors, and this book packed the punch again! How she manages to just get better with each book she releases is amazing to me. Gosh, I loved this story! I adored Xavier and Samantha. I loved their deep connection, their quick wit and fun banter, their fight for each other, and their love that endured through the hardships that could have torn them apart, but only drew them closer. And who doesn’t fall for animal lovers, I mean COME.ON.😍 I loved all the characters, the love and devotion everyone displayed for Samantha’s mom who was suffering from dementia, the support of (most) family and friends that always had their backs, and their real life situations handled with so much grace and care and compassion. How their experiences teach us to live and love better, to love parallel to one another, making memories for a lifetime, knowing nothing in life is guaranteed and every moment is precious and should not be wasted. I laughed, I cried and (spoiler alert!) I literally fist pumped the air and cheered at the ending that I almost started to believe wouldn’t happen…all the feels packed into this one! While there was some spice, I personally considered it minimal and most scenes faded out before becoming too descriptive. But it may be too much for those that are completely against any spice at all and a couple descriptive words were used a few times. A small amount of crude language, but again personally not enough to bother me or impact my rating. I really have no complaints, every book I read of Abby’s becomes a new treasure for me, and this one made the mark with all the others she has written. Brilliant, beautiful, an easy 5 star from me. There are some trigger warnings, please be aware and review before reading. 🫶 Favorite Quotes: “Because if you were my wife you would be my world. Everything starts with you and ends with you. Anything else is just the stuff that happens in the middle.” “You think it’s the big memories you should be chasing- and it is in a way. Birthdays and vacations and special occasions. But the small memories are the fabric of your life, the ones so inconsequential that you don’t even remember them. You just remember how you felt when you were making them.” “If you had the power to erase every memory you have of me so you didn’t know what you were missing, would you do it?” she asked. “No, I wouldn’t do it,” I said without even thinking about it. “Why?” “Because life wouldn’t be worth living if I didn’t remember you.” “I’d like to look back on my life and remember every single thing. But if I don’t, I hope I remember it was a love story. And that the love story was about you.” “Maybe that’s the last thing we forget. Or we never forget it at all. Not really. We lose the words to say it. We lose the ability to show it. But we never lose the ability to feel it or recognize it when we see it. Love is the brightest color in a gray world.” Adding on a personal viewpoint of a topic I see on a lot of reviews: A lot of reviews are touching on Samantha’s dad and the choices he made. I chose not to address that in my actual review, but will give my opinion here- Do I agree with his choices? No. But I’m also not living that experience. It has to be hard when your wife is physically there but mentally completely gone. It is a “death” in a way. My personal belief is that you stay committed to that person until actual death parts you. That is how I will live out my life with the One I love. But I hesitate to be quick to judge a situation I’ve never been in before. It’s clear he still loves his wife deeply. That goes a long way for me personally. While his actions go against my personal beliefs, I just have a hard time knowing exactly how to address this topic as part of my actual review. I chose not to let it impact my rating, because he still loved her, he still showed up every day for her, and he said that she will always be his true love and her name the last word he speaks. I do believe they had true love and I do believe he deeply loved her. It’s a hard and heartbreaking topic that I pray I never find myself in. I know I’d make a different decision than he did personally, but that’s me. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I’ll leave it at that. 🫶

This book stunk. Plot was slow aside from a random plot twist to further the story. It was the same internal dialogue and I was bored halfway through. I also dislike when one of the MC has to sacrifice something for love.

This book kept me engaged as well emotionally drained.