Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Imaginary Lover
SERIES: Beyond the Realm: Remember #8
AUTHOR: Morgan Price
PUBLISHER: Self-Published
RELEASE DATE: October 29, 2020
LENGTH: 127 pages
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“There’s no time. Remember your imaginary lover….”
Cory Caldwell woke up by the side of the road with no memory of how he got there. He pieces together who he is but has no idea what happened to him.
Dark visions haunt him—flashes of blood, magic, and a brutal fight. Scorching dreams of a faceless lover offer no clues. His gut warns that something urgent is eluding him, and that time is running out. Worse is the sense of bone-deep grief, as if Cory is missing part of his soul.
Desperate for answers, he hops a bus for Fox Hollow, a town famous for psychics, mediums, and those with supernatural abilities. Then a stranger calls Cory by name and casts a furtive glance around him. “There’s no time,” the man says. “I need your help. Remember…” Can Cory unlock his missing memories and rescue the stranger before it’s too late?
Imaginary Lover is full of dangerous magic, hurt/comfort, brave monster hunters, dark curses, sincere psychics, found family, and forever love.
REVIEW:
Imaginary Lover is the last book in the Beyond the Realm: Remember series and I can’t help but compare it to the first book that I really loved, which might be unfair. On the surface this book has everything you need for a big hit; an interesting set up with a man with no memories walking down a road. He knows he’s hiding and running from someone and something but has no idea who or what. And when you add in a lost soulmate, a curse and mysterious messages you do have something pretty interesting. Yet it failed to hold my attention for more than a few minutes at a time. It took me days to finish this book, and I typically read at least 1-2 books a day, so that says a lot.
It was all very superficial, there weren’t any real emotions there. And that didn’t really make much sense, here you have Cory waking up with no memories and you’d think that at least that would evoke some kind of emotion. I mean a situation like that would be traumatic and scary to say the least. But we got nothing of that. The book had a mellow feel to it throughout. I’m not saying it was a bad book, because it wasn’t, I just couldn’t connect to it, and for me that’s very important.
And it’s not only that I wasn’t invested, Cory didn’t seem all that invested either. Stuff kind of happened around him without much effort on his part, he was more bobbing along. Even finding out about all things supernatural didn’t garner much of a reaction.
Looking around it seems like most people have loved this story quite a lot so it seems like this is a case of the book and I didn’t click, and if this story does interest you, you should give it a try.
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