What Alice Forgot – Book Review

How can ten years of your life just disappear?

Alice is twenty-nine.

She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house.

She’s newly engaged to the wonderful Nick, and is pregnant with her first baby. But there’s just one problem.

That was ten years ago . . .

Alice slipped in her step-aerobics class, hit her head and lost a decade.

Now she’s a grown-up, bossy mother of three in the middle of a nasty divorce and her beloved sister Elisabeth isn’t speaking to her.

This is her life, but not as she knows it.

Just how many mistakes can you make in a decade?

Can she ever get back to the woman she used to be?

No. of pages:- 514 pages

Date published:- May 27th 2010

Publisher:- Penguin

Genre:- Women’s Fiction

Rating:- 2.5/5 stars

Here’s the thing–I LOVE Liane Moriarty’s books, having read Big Little Lies and My Husband’s Secret so I was determined to read all her books. What Alice Forgot is one of Liane Moriarty’s books and I expected I would enjoy this book as much as I did with her two other books.

Unfortunately, I didn’t really enjoy this book at all.

Plot:- Alice Love is twenty eight years, she is married to Nick and she is expecting their first child together and were planning to name the child as Sultana. But…Alice was twenty eight years old ten years ago. After doing a hectic exercise at the gym, Alice’s memory was lost and she believed she was twenty eight years old, when in fact she was in her forties, on the verge of getting divorce from her husband, already a mother of three children and is not in speaking term with her sister Elizabeth, with whom she believed to have a close relationship.

Good things about the book:–

• The plot was unique and good. Alice lost her memory and her mind drifts back to ten years before. She has no idea why she is getting divorce, why everyone seem to hate her including her sister so I was actually intrigued with this book.
• The writing as usual was good and I do love Moriarty’s style of writing.

But…

• The book is way too long for a story like this. I was so bored that I almost DNF the book but usually, I don’t do DNF so I just skimmed through the last bits to finish off the book fast.
• I didn’t like the main character, Alice at all. In fact none of the characters to me was appealing.
• I felt some parts were being so repetitive and I am not sure if this was intentional to make the story longer.
• Alice’s part was written in third person perspective but Elizabeth her sister was written in the first person perspective. I thought, in my opinion that Elizabeth’s part and Frannie’s blog is completely unnecessary in the story as this book is all about Alice.
• I am a bit confused about Alice–did Alice get her memory back? From what I understand, yes. Did Alice and Nick get back together? Yes from what I can see.

Here’s the thing, I am not saying Moriarty is a bad writer–she is in fact really a good writer. But I will not recommend this book as she do have two best books in her resume. So overall, I found this book boring, with too much repetition and found the whole thing bland.