Review: Forget Me Not

Forget Me Not by Julie Soto
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Four and a half stars.

Ama is a wedding planner .Having served her apprenticeship with the city's premier wedding planner Whitney she has struck out on her own, mainly catering to those with smaller budgets. But Ama has a secret, she's a wedding planner who doesn't believe in marriage, but then having a mother who's been married sixteen times might do that to you. Heck that's how Ama started in the wedding planning business, planning her mother's weddings.

Then she is approached by Hazel Renee, a famous Instagram make-up star, and her fiancée Jackie. Their budget is way beyond Ama's normal clientele and she's half ecstatic and half overwhelmed by the prospect. She tries to suggest Whitney would be a better fit but it seems they only want Ama. The only fly in the ointment is that they want Elliot Bloom to do the flowers, not just because he is one of the most talented florists around, but also because he happens to be the son of Jackie's boss, Senator Laura Gilbert. Ama has been avoiding Elliot Bloom ever since she planned Senator Gilbert's second wedding, doing everything within her power to not see or speak to him, using other florists and declining to take weddings where he is the florist. While she's thinking of a polite way of declining Hazel and Jackie's wedding Hazel announces it as a done deal on Instagram and now she has no choice.

This is a slow reveal, present day narrative by Ama, historical narrative by Elliot all amongst the over-the-top extravaganza of a wedding with such a huge budget. All among the most gorgeous descriptions of flowers and flower arrangements, if what Elliot designs can be called anything so mundane.

I'm not going to deny I sobbed great big tears twice reading this book, it was beautiful and heart-rending and I loved it. I definitely think this is one I will read more than once.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

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