A review by thereadingraccoon
Remember Me by Estelle Laure

emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Book Review: Remember Me by Estelle Laure 
Remember Me is a young adult novel that takes place in 2032. It explores the topics of young love, grief and memory. 
Blue Owens is an average teenager living in a New Mexico ski resort town when she finds a note in her pocket telling her to get on a particular bus on her birthday. She has no idea who wrote it or why they’d leave her a note. When she arrives on the bus she meets an attractive young guy that feels like familiar but is also a stranger. Blue will quickly discover that big pieces of her past are missing and it’s up to her to decide if they are worth bringing back. 
This novel explores the ideas of memory and grief. If we erase the painful things are we still grieving? If we delete all the bad don’t we get rid of the good too? And how far do we have to go to feel better? 
It isn’t easy to enjoy Blue as a character. She is a typical dramatic teen so she feels every emotion and when she falls she falls hard. She is obsessed with Adam throughout the book (one criticism I have is that a lot of their relationship feels one sided) and when she is filled with grief and guilt it consumes her as well. Although I understood the temptation of the memory erasing I was never quite convinced that she really wanted it to succeed which was a little confusing as the reader. I also wish I would have liked the supporting characters more but everyone from her family (except Gran), friends (specifically Turtle and Jack), Adam’s mother and the doctors in charge of her treatment are all kind of annoying and a few border on awful. 
Overall, this is an interesting and entertaining young adult take on the “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” type of plot. Although, I had some small issues with the characters and plot I found it a well-paced and a worthwhile read. 
4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️