Remember Me

Reviewed by: Brooke Faulkner - McArthur Library, Biddeford, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: February 10, 2015

Review

This second offering in Bernard's Find Me series is a fast-paced, at times grisly thriller that takes off when a dead woman with the words "remember me" carved across her chest is discovered during a political fundraiser that the main character, Wick, attends with her newly adoptive foster mother. This follows on the heels of Wick being blackmailed by a menacing police detective to install a GPS tracker on someone's cellphone. Though readers are rapidly brought up to speed in the opening chapters about the events of the first novel, including about Wick's sad family history (she's the daughter of a drug kingpin), this is still a difficult story to follow and it's hard to determine how much of that is due to it not working well as a stand-alone and how much of it may be due to a very complicated plot that involves many characters with questionable motives. Wick is a sympathetic narrator and her predicament of being stuck in the middle of a situation not of her own making will resonate with teen readers, as long as they don't find the plot too unwieldy, and don't mind the ending being somewhat unresolved, as a third in the series must be forthcoming.

Overall Book Score: fair