 Contemporary Romance |
REMEMBER ME Margie Walker BET Arabesque September 1999 (4) Melanie Schuster |
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How would you cope if you awoke and your memory was
gone? There are times when I could do quite nicely without mine, thank you very
much, but on the whole it would be terrifying.
Good or bad, our memories are all that connect us to our world and
without them we are adrift in a sea of confusion.
And that is precisely where Layla Griffin is in REMEMBER
ME. Layla Griffin is attacked on her way home and the result
is amnesia. She had a meeting
scheduled with a police detective; in her job as a researcher for a DNA-testing
laboratory she gained information that she shouldn’t have. Someone is after
Layla and she can’t tell Paul Diamond who it is or why. Sergeant Paul Diamond is the person that rescued Layla
from the assault. He feels doubly responsible for her since she unwittingly
holds the key to a mystery and she
attracts him in a way that no other woman ever has. He knows that he can protect her from whoever is pursuing
her, but he can’t protect himself or her from the unbidden passion that
surrounds them. Margie Walker has taken the ‘woman in peril’ motif
and made it into a stylish, elegant mystery. REMEMBER ME
is another example of how a conventional device--amnesia--can be given a fresh
treatment by the pen of a skilled author. This is a sophisticated page-turner
that will keep you guessing until the very end.
Ms. Walker’s characters are strongly written and reality-based and her
pacing is excellent. This is not a book to read in starts and stops--once you
get started you have to keep racing through it because there are so many
exciting elements that you have to get to the final denouement as fast as
possible!
Layla is a refreshing heroine--she is tiny and appears fragile but she has an abundance of strength. She is a survivor, not a victim, which makes her peril all the more compelling. She finds a great match in Paul Diamond, a man who is masculine and protective without drowning in machismo. A great love story and a complicated mystery full of suspense with unforgettable characters combine for a book you will definitely remember long after you finish. |
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11th August 1999 |
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