The Accident

The Accident: A Thriller by Linwood Barclay
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I am a giant fan of Linwood Barclay. I have read all his books, and own majority of them.

This by far was the most interesting though. He chose to have the book surround the topic of the fake purse/electronic/ prescription trade. Intertwining the topic around a regular suburban family and then throwing in a few wrenches definitely made this book worth the read. There were lots of twists and turns. Barclay totally had me at the end of the book, I was not expecting the main character to have to re-think one of his most important relationships and it was great way to keep the reader on their toes.

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What Alice Forgot

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed the premise of the book, which was Alice is at a spin class and falls off the bike and loses 10yrs of her memory. She forgets life changing events that happened, ie. the birth of her 3 children, the fact that she is going to be 40, the death of her friend Gina, her trial separation with her husband, and her new relationship with a man that is the principal at her children's school. Needless to say, when Alice gets out of the hospital (her memory is still lost) she has to learn and adapt to all these 'new' changes in her life. I will state that there was a little bit of confusion in approx. the last 40 pages, but the 10 pages in the epilogue bring everything together.
I will readily admit that Alice 2008, i did not like her at all. She was always rushing around to places and things, she was a not nice person (ie. very snippy, rude, intolerant and unsympathetic), she was addicted to exercising, and had a major issue with her husband causing her to want to separate and divorce. Alice 1998 was a very chill, relaxed person. She enjoyed eating custard tarts, she was friendly and nice to people (made amends with people while experiencing memory loss and wanting to have a relationship with them because she couldn't believe she was that mean and cold hearted), she valued all the things that had been done with her house since she last remembered it (ie. it had all the renos she wanted, it had a pool, the drive way had WHITE gravel). Overall she was a much more thankful, easy going and caring person. Even though we find out that the death of her friend Gina is a trigger for a lot of the changes that Alice 2008 has made, i found that a little wacky jacky for being the cause. Her relationship with her best friend was in my opinion, a little too close and therefore had certain affects on her marriage. The ending was the ending i wanted to happen........and other things happened that were bonuses too! The book was a fairly easy read and very light hearted comedy. I have never read a book about a topic like this but if you need a comparison to a movie it would be 'The Vow' but with a nicer/more funny woman/wife/mother that loses her memory.

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