A woman arrives in a sleepy village with no knowledge of who she is or why she is at the village, just that something told her to go there. A couple of villagers think they recognise her but they are conflicting. Who is the mysterious woman? Is she safe?

This is a thriller with intrigue and mystery at its heart. We meet the woman when she is at her lowest, with no background knowledge, and she is soon taken in by Laura and Tony. This is quite a slow read but I was still taken in and had a feeling of wanting the mystery solved. I liked the village setting given to this, it allowed for busybodies to put their theories forward providing amusement.

My one negative, is some of this is far fetched and feels implausible and the plot lost some credibility for me. Monroe throws in some plot changing twists and whilst proving exciting for the book, it is here that some credibility is lost.

Despite this 'Forget My Name' is an enjoyable thriller with dark themes and events filtering in. I enjoyed reading this.

Thank you to NetGalley and Head of Zeus for an advance copy.

Wow an amazing book that just when I thought I'd figured it out it changed and I hadn't a clue where it was heading!! Kept me gripped and intruded from page one until the last page

Thank you NetGalley and Head of Zeus for letting me read Forget My Name by J.S. Monroe for an honest review! All opinions are my own!

My first time reading that author, no regrets!

I give it 4 stars.
Really good, interesting, well written, good characters, a good thriller. A woman suffering from amnesia. Imagine you can't even remember your own name?!?!
This is told by many POVs so it can be confusing but it is interesting and you want to read and find out what happened! You don't know what to expect!

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This book started out really well and I thought I was in for a great thriller that. Unfortunately, I felt that it didn't keep the momentum up and I started to lose interest.

This is one of those really odd books that is unique, but I'm not quite sure what to make of. There is certainly some artistic licence that makes the storyline just the other side of believable, but it is well written and planned.

This taut psychological thriller about an amnesiac woman who doesn't know her own name or where she came from, just that the modest house in an English village occupied by a pleasant but confused young couple is her house,not theirs. Either courtesy or curiosity compels Tony and Anna to offer the stranger at their front door not only hospitality, but also food and shelter while they help her unravel the mystery of her identity and why she believes their house is her home. When Tony suggests giving her a name while they try to figure out who she is, adding that "You look like a Jemma to me," it's the proverbial gun brandished in the first act of the play - by the rules of drama, it has to go off in the third.
Monroe spins an intriguing plot that kept this reader involved and excited to the last page. I wouldn't call it realistic - it's much too contrived for that. Fascinating, though - that's what this well written novel is.

I'd no idea what to expect since I'd never read JS Monroe. It was was an intriguing slow burn to start with, enough to keep you engaged, but oh my dear, once you were ensconced, suddenly it charged off in a wild and unexpected fashion, leaving you scurrying down lanes you never expected, and climaxing in a most satisfactory finale.

Forget My Name started out like it was going to be a great thriller that I could really get lost in. Unfortunately for me it didn't keep going in the same vein and I lost interest. Too many characters and theories being tossed around that were so far fetched. I figured out the who early on but not why. I wanted to like this one more.. just wasn't for me.

A woman turns up at a house that she believes she lives in only to find another couple living there. She has no memory and can't even remember her name. The couple invite her in and let her stay while she tries to figure out who she's is and why she is there. I was confused by some of the actions of these people who had no idea who this woman was.

Thanks to Head of Zeus and NetGalley for my advanced copy of this book to read. All opinions are my own and are in no way biased

Forget my Name is a fast paced twisty thriller that leads you down one path and then all of a sudden switches it up and takes you somewhere completely different. A woman arrives home to find that there are people living in her home...or are there? As she can’t remember her name or anything else about herself, someone is lying.
I raced through Forget my Name and whilst there are a few loose ends, I wasn’t disappointed and I enjoyed it.

I absolutely loved 80% of this book. I wondered if the book could keep the high quality and it mostly did. Excellent twist half way through with Jemma 'with a J'. I was not expecting this. Characters are excellent and I was easily drawn into them. Don't like american spellings/phrases in books that are obviously British e.g. whiskey (no 'e') and SUV (4 by 4). The last 20% peters out for me - I was waiting for a big twist and nothing happened. The story line with Jemma with a 'j' was just too coincidental and needed to be included in the ending.

This was one of the best books I have read this year - because the twist in it was so unexpected. I loved it. It was cleverly written and whilst the first part was a typical mystery/psychological thriller, the twist took it in a completely different direction to what I was expecting. Highly recommended.

Tony and Laura answer their front door to a young woman who thinks she lives at that address and can’t remember her name. She has no handbag or i/d but can remember that she flew into Heathrow from Berlin.
Tony and Laura are not really sure what to do but decide they will let her stay for the night and then take her to the local doctors surgery in the morning, to see if they can help.
Meanwhile Tony decides she needs a name and that Jemma suits her.
In the morning she sees Dr Patterson, a friend of Laura’s, and during the consultation it becomes clear that, after searching records, Dr Patterson is very concerned as to “Jemma’s” possible identity, but she won’t elaborate.
Events then move on quickly and it is difficult to know who to believe.
This is a mysterious and fast moving thriller - it will keep you hooked and turning the pages.

I cannot rave about this book enough. From a rather inauspicious first page, it's not long before we are thoroughly wrapped up in "Jemma with a J"'s story.. How she arrived at the door of Tony and Laura's cottage in a sleepy wiltshire village, not knowing her name or who she was and missing all her belongings - but knowing their house inside out. Tony and Laura profess never to have seen her before, but one of them is lying. ...

With some incredible reveals and twists, travelling from England to Germany and India, this thriller was one of the best police proceedurals I've read this year, if not in several years. It takes a lot to creep me out and I'm not easily scared, but there were a couple of moments in this novel where I had goosebumps and my jaw geniunely dropped. A cannot put down, stay up all night even when you have a bad cold, ignore your kids and partner read. Highly recommend!

What can I say, seriously one of the best books I have read in a very long time. Well written, plenty of twists and turns, The suspense kept me right until the end. A definite recommendation.

I'm going to keep this review short and sweet as writing too much will result in me giving too much away, so here goes.

I really enjoyed this book, it’s a very modern thriller about a woman who has what is believed to be temporary amnesia who can’t remember anything from her past except for a few details about a friend. She turns up at a house which she believes she used to live at and is invited in by some strangers that are living there. The story starts to unfold and is a real page turner and unputdownable.

The book is written using viewpoints of multiple characters. I did get confused at times because of this but nothing major that I didn’t manage to work out after reading on.. I thought there was good characterisation and they all seemed to develop as the book goes on.

While reading this book I did wonder who in their right mind would let a stranger into their house and let them stay, but as I read on it all starts to make sense as everything comes together.

This was another book where I thought I had worked out how it would end but once again I was wrong.

Overall I enjoyed this book although it was full of twists and turns I thought there was something missing but once again can’t quite put my finger on what it is. I do recommend this book if you’re looking for a good mystery thriller.

I would like to thank NetGalley and Head of Zeus for my eARC in return from and honest and unbiased review.

A captivating and unusual mystery thriller that will turn your guesses and conclusions upside down the page after you've formulated them, sending you down a whole new path.. The story kicks off with the fascinating story of a woman turning up on the doorstep of a village home claiming she lives there, but the couple who open the door says it belongs to them and they do not know her. Who is lying? The girl, named 'Jemma' for convenience, claims to have lost her memory. She has just flown in to the UK from Berlin and has had all her baggage - including ID documents - stolen but 'knows' the house and claims it is her home. The couple are sympathetic toward this sad amnesiac and take her in ... and from that point forward the story unfolds.

We are made to sympathise first with one character then with another, then to doubt them, then to re-form our impressions from chapter to chapter, wondering who is telling the truth, who is lying, and who the characters really are.

The characterisation is good, though necessarily limited by the complexity of the plot itself as further development of the characters would have required a much longer book. I've noticed complaints by some reviewers that the story itself is somewhat unbelievable, but I don't find this the case, particularly, and don't feel that authors should be constrained when writing thrillers to make everything so plausible that it could be 'as real life'. If that were the case, why bother with fiction at all? Anyway, as it is said, 'Truth is stranger than fiction', so I wouldn't put plausibility that high on my own list of necessary ingredients for a story.

I found this a thoroughly engaging psychological thriller with some very unexpected and unusual developments along the way that kept me intrigued all the way through, with intelligent writing and characterisation along the way. I have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone who enjoys a good psychological mystery/thriller.

Forget my name is a racy, modern thriller with plenty of chilling moments. A woman who can't remember who she is, has had her belongings stolen but not all is lost, she remembers a house, she believes it's hers but another couple are living there. Laura and Tony open the door to a beautiful young woman who thinks she lives in their house, they are neighborly and invite her in, she can't remember anything else, so they try to help, book a GP appointment and let her stay the night. Well having a stranger in the house is scary enough but when the GP suspects she lived in the house sometime ago and has killed before it gets scarier. The story is told from multiple viewpoints that swap around very quickly, therefore told in over 100 chapters. This keeps the action moving very quickly. All the characters are believable, plenty of avenues are explored to find out who this woman is and why she has come to this village. Great plot, which I won't spoil, solid 4 stars, unputdownable!

Overall this is a really good read. It is confusing in parts but definitely worth persevering. This is a good gripping plot with a few brilliant totally unexpected twists. I had chills down my spine by the end. The plot is refreshingly novel and memorable.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

I raced through this highly entertaining psychological thriller. A woman arrives in a small rural village and heads to what she believes to be her home. The trouble is she has no idea who she is, where she has been and why she knows this house to be her home. The door is answered by a couple who claim to be its owners and know nothing of her existence. Who is lying and why?

There is a clever intertwining of two stories here as the protagonist and residents of the village try to discover her identity. It is difficult to say more without creating spoilers but this is a well written thriller with excellent characterisation and satisfying twists. It stays just on the right side of credible.

I received a complimentary copy of the book from NetGalley and publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thank you.

My thanks to Head of Zeus and NetGalley for a digital copy of this intriguing thriller.

I found it very hard to put down and loved its various twists and turns. A complex plot that manages to handle multiple points of view and deliver surprise after surprise along with edge-of-the-seat tension. It is one I would advise to read ‘cold’ avoiding too much background.

I especially enjoyed the local characters; especially
Sean and his Russian conspiracy theories that also managed to bring into the narrative real-world recent events. On a side note with the local pub being called The Slaughtered Lamb my mind went straight to ‘An American Werewolf’ in London.

I think this is going to prove a best seller though I do think it best to not tell potential readers there is a twist as that prepares them throughout for it.