Book Review: What Alice Forgot
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was a quick read with a pretty linear story. Characters were relatively well-written although I was getting annoyed at how Alice kept describing herself and her peers who were 39 (no spoiler here – she has forgotten the past 10 years of her life and thinks she is 29). The way she described it was as if 39 was so old… and sorry, but nowadays, as someone who IS 39, I was put-off by all the wrinkles and gray hair these women supposedly had. In my head, I imagined women in their 50s by her description.
I also dropped it a star because it was a little hard to relate with all the personality changes she had in a short 10 year span. I have been with my husband 15 years already and I can look back and say that yes, I have changed but not as drastically as Alice did in some core ways and in some of her values. To me it’s like she had regressed to be like someone in her early 20s & in a steady relationship, not 29 and married. I think I would have liked the story to have had a larger memory gap – maybe 15-20 years – to justify the drastic changes.
Anyway, not an disagreeable story but not that thought-provoking either. An easy vacation novel that won’t have you thinking too hard.
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