Review: Taylor

Title: Sweet Giordan, Please Remember

Author: Raine O’Tierney

Pages: 120

Publisher: Dreamspinner Press

Blurb:

Giordan Stone is lucky, all things considered. Sure, he spent five years in a coma only to wake with a right leg that’s practically useless and no memories other than his name. But now he’s under the care of sassy southern surrogate mother, Chloe Devereaux, spending his days painting and healing. Giordan wants for nothing at all… until he looks out the window one morning and sees Chloe’s gorgeous son, Shane, standing there. Something very familiar stirs in Giordan.

When he sketches, Giordan is able to go into an “art trance” where pieces of disjointed memory come back to him without time or place. More and more of these flashes are of Shane Devereaux and the intense, intimate experiences they shared together. Even though Shane keeps his distance now, Giordan is convinced his flashes are real. But he doesn’t have the whole story. Giordan is determined to fill in his memory blanks and convince Shane his feelings are genuine.

Review:

This is one of those books where the reasoning behind the characters’ actions are either going to enrage you or you will fall in love with Giordan and gloss over behaviors and plot points.  I’m leaning mostly towards the latter.

You have a character suffering from amnesia and a cast of characters that all seem to know him that he struggles to remember.  He’s an artist and kind and wonderful to read.

Giordan as a character is SO sweet and his relationship and love with Shane was beautiful.  I wish we’d gotten even more backstory between them because I think when the two of them fell in love; it must have been magical.   And the meeting at the racetrack just made me smile.  Everything about it made me smile, but there were many things Shane said during this moment that rubbed me the wrong way.
Shane, despite the fact that he looked for Giordan for YEARS, still came across petulant and selfish many times.  He felt manipulative with wanting to pull something from Giordan that Giordan couldn’t give him. He didn’t seem understanding and I can’t fathom how he couldn’t have been, how he couldn’t have trusted his boyfriend that he knew loved him as much as he loved him.

Even Shane’s mother and their mutual friend.  I have a big problem with someone locking someone inside a room as a way of keeping up ‘the peace’ or playing games with someone’s memories.  Aside from that, I truly LOVED Chloe.  She’s a wonderful female character and she felt real and comforting, like Jessica Tandy in Fried Green Tomatoes.

Overall, this is a sweet escape and if you can suspend disbelief and enjoy Giordan and Shane’s love that endures, you should like this a lot.

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