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Forget Me Not
Stacy Willingham
Publication Date: August 26th, 2025
St. Martin’s Press | Minotaur Books
336 Pages
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Genre: General Fiction | Mystery & Thrillers
While I rated the author’s previous book, All the Dangerous Things, four stars, this one didn’t impress me as much.
The story is about journalist Claire Campbell, who lost her sister, Natalie, 22 years ago. Natalie was only 18 at the time of her death, and the case has since been solved. Claire has worked hard to move on, but when she ends up back home in South Carolina for the summer, she takes a job at a vineyard. There, she finds an old diary written by one of the owners and is shocked by what she reads inside.
This book is touted as a “pulse-pounding new Southern thriller,” but it isn’t. The story dragged on for me; it was beautifully written but incredibly slow-going. For someone who is supposed to be an investigative journalist, Claire wasn’t very bright, and I didn’t like her very much either. I never felt invested in her story or connected to any of the characters.
This book should have ticked all the boxes for me: it takes place in the South, features an investigative journalist with a tragic past, and includes an old diary that uncovers secrets. However, since nothing happens for more than the first two-thirds of the book, it just didn’t work for me on many levels.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.
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