Reviewed by Danielle

Title : Please Remember Me

Author: Jacob Z. Flores

Publisher: Dreamspinner press

Length:156 pages

Blurb:

Successful lawyer Santi Herrera couldn’t be happier with the direction his life is taking. Not only is he on track to becoming a partner in his law firm, but he’s planning his wedding to Hank Burton, a south Texas contractor who has made a name for himself despite his humble beginnings. The introverted, lone wolf Santi and the friendly, outgoing Hank complement each other perfectly. From the moment they laid eyes on each other, they were hooked, and as far as Santi and Hank are concerned, a happily ever after is their destiny.

But fate deals them a devastating new hand.

A construction accident leaves Hank with severe head trauma and brings him precariously close to death. When he finally awakens, Hank doesn’t remember Santi or the love they shared for the past three years. Santi faces the greatest challenge of his life. Can he respark a flame his lover can’t recall? And can he stop the diverging paths that fickle fate charts between them?

Review:

Wow just simply wow. This story is what makes me love this genre; it’s what makes reading the best feeling there is.

On occasion you stumble across a story that just hits you up in all the right ways. It touches you, it spikes your buttons and it makes you sad when you have finished because you feel like you are living the story with the characters made by the author.

For me this was one of those stories. It was so easy to connect with both Santi and Hank , so easily to picture them in my mind.

And not only the main characters but also the friends that surround this story are so worth it. Jill , Darren and Mitch all seem to have their own story to tell (hint hint).

It’s not a secret that I am a fan of this author and when I got asked to read this book early for review I was delighted, yet it also makes it difficult when you appreciate an author to exactly do that.

I fell head over heels with this story and it’s characters. There is laughter, there is a moral and there is also a very serious undertone. The connection between Hank and Santi is very instant and although you could question it, it seems the be the proof of that indeed instant attraction, lust or even perhaps love at first sight exists.

You will blush in reading some parts, a delightful blush I have to say for me personally but there is also a passage in this book that had me crying (quite an embarresment in your workplace but I couldn’t help it. It honestly broke my heart.)

Another intense part is Hank his other relationships. For example, with his parents it was very good to read a different view on the parent/gay son relationship and seeing that it indeed can change. But also with the two friends he has lived with and built a life together with as brothers. Both relationships get addressed in this book in refreshing and different ways much to my personal liking.

When they face the challenge of giving up or sticking to it, accepting their lives would never be the same either way, as a reader I struggled together with them, finding hope in little small pieces and seeing understanding in decisions that needed to be made. I found myself silently begging for that spark of recognition or reconnecting.

The one thing I needed to get used to was the looking back on occasion in the story. While grew to love this aspect because it showed me wonderful things that had happened between and with Santi and Hank, it also took me some time to adjust to it..

The writing style of the author is fluent, very easy to read with an healthy dose of excitement and enthusiasm.

This story has it all! It has love above and beyond all, it has faith and trust in another person and belief in yourself. It has compassion, friendship and a certain, necessary amount of sadness. It also has anger and frustration, a fair amount of smoking sexiness, insecurity, resentment and regrowth to just to name a few wonderful things.

As I don’t believe in perfect this came close so Mary Poppins would say practically perfect in every way.

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