I felt like throwing this book accross the room after about the third page but perservered until the end, which felt like several lifetimes. The essential plot was excellent, which was why I bought the book in the first place, however the story fell flat very quickly and the suspense just wasn't present. I tried hard to like the protagonist but she was so irritating I was disappointed she wasn't killed by the bomb explosion at the very beginning. Not recommended ( )

a young woman gets caught up in a bomb blast,when she regains consciousness she has lost her memory.she adopts a new name and life.we go through it with her as she starts to remember.

couldn't put it down until i'd finished it.very good,recomemd it. ( )

A reasonably enjoyable book if you try not to get carried away with the inaccuracies and impossibilities of the story. The book opens with an explosion at a night club and Rebecca not being able to remember who she is or why she’s there. It takes her a long time before she finds out her name’s Rebecca and the reader finds out with her. She makes a decision based on a bad feeling she has, not to let anyone know who she is and jumps on the first bus.

Without any idea where she’s actually going and using a name from the wallet she’s stolen, Rebecca becomes Jo and magically seeks employment and accommodation in the town she ends up in. Her job as a waitress soon ends and she messes up where she’s staying. She does this several times and conveniently for her and the plot, everyone forgives her, over and over.

By utilising modern technology, Jo finds out who she is from Facebook and starts to find out more about her old life. It couldn’t be further away from the life she has created with her new identity. Which person does she wish to be? The novel fluctuates from persona to persona and it actually becomes a little tedious in places. If the novel had been a little shorter and the writing had improved it would be a cracking story but there is too much convenience in the plot to make it a page turner. Jo conveniently gets a job working with children without any police checks and even more worryingly is whether she continues this job further into the novel.

The three stars are for the concept of the novel. It’s a great idea, just not compiled very well. Too much relies on convenience of the plot. It was obvious that Jo and Rebecca would have to be poles apart but the dilly dallying between the two different lives simply became tedious in the end. ( )