Forget You Know Me

Title: Forget You Know Me

Author: Jessica Strawser

Publishing date:  2/2019

Genre: Contemporary fiction

Where I got it:  ARC from St Martins Press

Rating: 3 stars

Synopsis:  Liza and Molly are best friends from college now living in two different states and have two different lives.  In an effort to save a strained friendship, they have what they call girls night that consists of wine and catching up over Webcam.  When her daughter needs her, Molly steps away from the computer leaving Liza alone to watch, in horror, as a masked man enters her friends home.  

After frantically calling the police, Liza decides to take the eight hour drive to make sure her friend is unharmed and well.  Only when she arrives Molly slams the door in her face and acts like Liza crossed state lines for nothing at all.

Liza returns home to a burned down apartment complex, no where to live and not understanding the thought process of the person who she's called her best friend all these years.  While Liza is thinking her friendship is over, Molly is thinking she's dodged a bullet only to make another one in its place.  

They cant avoid each other forever though, and soon they'll face a reckoning that will show them just how much weight a shared history can take.

My thoughts: I was surprised by this novel.  I liked the synopsis.  However, I was surprised by the story line ending.  If I learned anything from this novel it's to trust no one.  Not your best friend for so many years and not your husband.  It took me a while to read this book.  When I was reading it I was into it, but the desire to continue reading after I put it down just wasn't there for me.  I didn't get connected to the characters, in fact, I can't even say I liked most of them.  However, I can say that the characters were well developed, to me they were just selfish, paranoid and psychotic.  

Characters and ending aside, Strawser did a good job at tying together all the unknowns that were dropped throughout the book.  Though I can't say I liked the ending.   To me I don't understand how two wrongs make a right, but she did not leave me with any questions unanswered.  

Though I can't say I would read this particular book again, I would like to look into some of her other novels and see how they compare.  Her writing was good, and her ideas where there.