Welcome friend! Let’s move on from a very sombre detailed review of Rebecca to a more light hearted read. Farah Heron’s latest novel, Remember Me Tomorrow is a time-travel romance. While the first book I read by her, Accidentally Engaged, was culturally immersive, this novel with its multicultural university backdrop focuses on a journalist student who has stumbled upon a mystery. Here’s what the book is about:
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A missing student. A singular investigation. A new romance. Every bit of it is a mystery in a delightful novel of cosmic twists by the author of How to Win a Breakup.
East House is the oldest and least desirable dorm on campus, but it has a draw for lonely university freshman Aleeza Kassam: Jay Hoque, the hot and broody student who vanished from East House five months ago without a trace. It’s irresistible to an aspiring investigative journalist like Aleeza.
But when she starts receiving texts from Jay, the mystery takes an unexpected turn. To put it mildly. His messages are coming not only from Aleeza’s own dorm room but from the past—only weeks before he disappeared. Sharing space, if not time, Aleeza and Jay are living the impossible, and they start working together to prevent his inevitable disappearance. Causing a temporal paradox that could blow up the universe is a risk they’re going to have to take.
Aleeza digs through Jay’s suspicious friends, enemies, and exes, determined to find out what happened to him. Or what will happen to him. But it’s becoming more than a mystery. Aleeza is catching feelings for her charming new roommate. Wherever, and whenever, he may be.
Remember Me Tomorrow – Review
Remember Me Tomorrow opens with Aleeza Kassam packing her bags. She has had enough of being used and ignored by her childhood best friend and it is time to make it on her own. Luck is on her side and she is able to find housing in East House or maybe it isn’t because the room she is assigned belongs to Jay Hoque, a student who disappeared some months back. As a journalist major looking for a project for one of her classes, she had already considered investigating his disappearance. Aleeza is astonished when she starts getting messages from him on the residence app that should only work between roommates. How is that possible?
Turns out, they are five months apart in time, he is in the past. After both convince each other that their connection is not a prank by someone who hates them, they form an alliance, trying to save him from his vanishing. Their interest is also piqued by this strange phenomenon that is letting them communicate so they watch science fiction movies to try to comprehend their situation.
I enjoyed the fantasy elements in this story. Aleeza and Jay’s connection over the app was a fun way to imagine time-travel. I liked how their friendship evolved over texting and I was reminded of my teenage years when texting with a boy would bring similar feelings as what Aleeza was experiencing.
Aleeza evolves from a quiet girl who has for a long time seen herself as her best friend’s sidekick to her own person, standing up for herself and what she believes in. Moving to East House is good for her in many ways. She is able to meet people who are taking the same program as her. Investigating Jay also helps her make friends while bringing her out of her comfort zone, taking her to posh university parties and the area of Toronto that Jay called home.
The book portrays cyberbullying, the fake image people on the Internet can paint, and its consequences on the person himself. The plot explaining Jay’s disappearance was convincing though a little complicated and made me think of The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. I am glad that Aleeza met people at East House who knew the real Jay and as she herself started to get to know him, she was able to separate fact from fiction.
I liked Gracie, the friend Aleeza made, who is also in her program and how they stood by each other throughout the story. It was lovely to see a friendship solidify between the two. I found the use of the word ‘f*ckboy’ excessive at the start of the book but maybe that it is university slag that I am too old to not cringe at.
Remember Me Tomorrow took me back to university days full of assignments, drama and challenges of making friends. It felt like a tribute to The Lake House, one of my favourite movies, as it has a man and woman communicating through a mailbox but living in the same house months apart. I enjoyed this book and recommended it if you are looking for a light romance in a university setting. Find it on Goodreads.
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