Forgotten & Remembered
Bree Wolf
3/5
Graham lost his wife a year ago and has realized that his daughter needs a mother, so he marries Rosabel without speaking with her a single time. As the daughter of a scandal, she really has no choice except to accept.
It's different in the aspect that she really does just solely take care of the daughter at first. Which was nice, she has a tragic backstory of a mother who died young and a father who died of a broken heart, so she loves to give another child that experience which she missed. Her backstory is "tragic" but built up to in such a minimum way, she tells basically everyone who she meets and it loses its significance. Society doesn't play a major role here, she basically lives on a country estate in solitude for the majority of the novel.
I know that the trope in these novels is angst, Graham has missed out on his first love and he'll be bitter forever because of it, but it was really overdone here. He kept going back to it, he said he loved his daughter but really expressed no actual interest in her. It was like her backstory, they kept talking about it but I didn't actually see what they were talking about.
It was okay as a read, I finished it and didn't hate it by the end. I don't know if I would recommend it because it's just kind of a diluted form of the tropes and cliches that I see over and over again, not super exciting or shocking in any way.
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