What Alice Forgot

the author does a great job of keeping everything suspenseful
The name of the book I read is called What Alice Forgot. The author of this book is Liane Moriarty. The plot starts out with Alice in bed talking and going over all of the rules that she has to follow because she is pregnant. Then her head gets filled with many different memories and as soon as she wakes up she is in a gym. She finds out shortly after that she fell at the gym and hit her head. When the paramedics arrive to try and help Alice she tells them that she is 29, but one of her friends that is in the gym with her tells the paramedics that she is actually turning 40 soon. Alice tells them that it is the year 1998, when really it is 2008. This is when the readers realized that Alice has lost the memories of the past 10 years of her life. Throughout the book, Alice has to try and deal with everyday life that she would normally live, but now that she doesn’t have her memory from the past 10 years, everything is much harder.In my personal opinion, this book was very well written. It had a lot of suspense and mystery throughout its plot. The whole problem and conflict between Alice and Nick is one of the main things that kept the book interesting. As the book went on, more and more problems and situations kept coming up in Alice’s life, and reading about how she dealt with each one of these problems kept me really tied to the book and not wanting to stop reading. From the beginning of the book when Alice loses her memory, the author does a great job of keeping everything suspenseful.This story is about a woman named Alice Love who loses her memory of the past 10 years of her life. The book shows all of the hard obstacles that she has to go through with family and friends as she tries her best to discover the person was.. The main characters in this book are Alice, Elisabeth, and Nick. There are definitely some other important characters such as Alice’s children as well as Gina and Frannie, but they aren’t as important as the main characters. In the story the main characters all played major roles. Alice, being the protagonist, had the story focusing in on her and the problems she went through while losing her memory. Elisabeth is Alice’s sister who plays a big part in Alice’s life after Alice’s accident. Nick is Alice’s husband, and throughout the story they are going through a divorce because of a problem that Alice can’t seem to remember. My favorite character in the book has to either be Alice or Elisabeth. I like them both because they share a great sisterly connection. The author does a good job of showing the readers how before Alice’s accident their relationship was kind of drifting apart; and then after the accident, they find a way to come back together again. As the book went on, their relationship grew as they helped each other through different obstacles of their lives.I enjoyed reading this book. My favorite part was definitely the tension between Alice and Nick. Throughout the book, there was always conflict between the two of them. Either Alice wanted him back and Nick didn’t want anything to do with her, or Nick wanted her back and Alice couldn’t deal with him anymore. One issue I had with the novel was that Frannie’s journal entries were a little boring and sometimes confusing. If I could change something in the book, I would probably get rid of the journal entries that Elisabeth and Frannie write. Some of them were interesting, but I don’t think that they should have taken up a lot of the story.Someone who likes romance and mystery would really enjoy reading this book. It is a great read and it has a lot of thrills and suspense. It isn’t a very short book, but it is so well written that the book goes by very fast. Once you start reading it is very hard to stop and put the book down, I highly? recommend it

Muy bueno como se desarrolla! Te hace ponerte en el lugar de Alice todo el tiempo!! Reflexivo

I Iike the premise of this novel, it’s like a time-travel story but with a twist.Because of the amnesia, Alice is able to “step out of herself” and see the person she has become objectively. The shock of discovering that she is ten years older than she believed herself to be is bad enough, but to learn that all the important relationships in her life have changed out of all recognition, is almost too much for poor Alice.Her beloved husband, Nick, is cold and distant; her sister, Elisabeth, with whom she has always had a good relationship, has become a stranger, and she has three children who she can’t remember giving birth to. On a less serious note, her mother, Barb, has married Nick’s father, Roger, and the pair have become obsessed with Salsa dancing.I liked Alice immediately and sympathized with her predicament. The story questions intrigued me; why are Alice and Nick getting a divorce? Why has she drifted apart from her sister? And, who is the mysterious Gina? As the story was told in the third person from Alice’s point of view, these questions may have been difficult to answer. (I would have liked some of the scenes told from Nick’s point of view for balance).To get around this, the author uses two clever plot devices. Firstly, we have a journal, written by Elisabeth, to her psychiatrist, Dr Jeremy Hodges, entitled “Elisabeth’s homework for Dr Hodges”, which provides a poignant subplot and insight into Elisabeth’s life, as well as providing further information about Alice.Secondly, we have Frannie’s blog entitled “Grand musings of a Great-grandmamma!”. Frannie is Honorary Grandmother to Alice and Elisabeth and my favourite secondary character.Most of the book involves Alice slowly unravelling the events of the past ten years, providing both humorous and sad moments. Alice’s confusion and longing for the husband she thought she knew was heartbreaking at times. Alice felt like an “impostor in her own life” for most of the book, which was sometimes frustrating to read, but as the random memories started to return, Alice began to piece together the details of her lost years.The scenes involving the children were funny and entertaining.Although the book was written with Liane Moriarty’s usual gentle humour, there are some serious issues raised in this story and I would recommend reading “Elisabeth’s homework for Dr Hodges” with a box of tissues nearby.Altogether, a thoroughly enjoyable read.