This is the first time I've ever heard of this condition, and it was really enlightening to read about it. You are never too old to learn, that's obvious. This was a real page turner, as I just had to see if the killer would be caught despite the fact that his face wasn't known. This was a thrilling debut read, will read more by her in future.

This novel is filled with many twists and turns.
Beautiful writing and excellent characters.
A great psychological thriller

Omg......... this book was amazing I flew threw the pages with Olympic speed I was hooked from the very first page. I found it full of twists and turns threw out and it kept me on the edge of my seat all the way threw  I would defiantly recommend this book if you like a good book to keep you reading threw the night hopefully you enjoy it as much as I did

Wow what a book really enjoyed reading this psychological thriller twists and turns a psychopath hiding in plain sight overall a great read

I very much enjoyed this book. It has a good story and excellent main characters. I would definately recommend this book.

Sarah has face blindness so is unable to recognise anyone by their face alone. When her sister is murdered in their home she is unable to identify the killer even though she sees them carry out the attack from start to finish.
The idea behind this storyline is a unique one and carried out well. I did guess the ending but a few twists really shocked me on the way there. I found Sarah to be a very unsympathetic character though so struggled to form any sort of attachment or concern for her! I did enjoy the her journey though and it’s well written and gripping throughout. I would certainly pick up other books by this author!

An accident left Sarah with face blindness. She started living with her sister, when an attack by an unknown person killed her sister and left her barely living. She was the prime suspect of her sister's murder. And it was up to Sarah to prove herself innocent.

My first book by this author, I rushed through the pages to get to the killer. I wanted to know the who and why. The curiosity killed me. Though I couldn't connect with Sarah, I liked her better when she took charge of her life.

The story went through twists and left me grappling with the truth. A thrilling read.

Today I have a book review for Remember Me by Amy McLellan with her debut novel published by Orion Publishing.

Plot
Sarah was in a car accident which she developed a lasting brain injury known as Prosopagnosia, which means she can’t recognize faces. Her sister is murdered, and the police think she is the prime suspect of the murder.

This imaginative plot is astounding and cunningly constructed, what you think it is, undeniably is not. Truly brilliant debut novel which I shall be looking out for lots more books by Amy McLellan (Subtle hint!). An Author to look out for who I predict will have a good future as a writer.

Characters
Sarah is an intriguing character especially due to her brain issues, called prosopagnosia. I have personally never heard about such a long causing brain injury. But she defiantly a love/hate character, sometimes you feel so much empathy, her frustrations, and get a wonderful insightful view into who she is and how her prosopagnosia affects her everyday life. Then comes to times you want to slap her with a wet fish or you have the stabby feelings repeatedly.

Writing Style/Pacing
Amy’s writing style is unambiguous, wonderful, flawless and written beautifully. She knows how to draw her readers into a book full of twists and turns, secrets and lies, multiple characters with motive, and sending us back to the past to experience Joanne’s and Sarah’s relationship, and how Joanne used to Support Sarah etc.
Also, I would like to mention about wonderfully detailed and sensitively Amy portrayed anxiety. And the way she explained, got you intrigued about Prosopagnosia and giving us enough details and information throughout about the condition and the affects this has on suffers. The pacing started of slowed but soon went at 150 MPH until the unveiling, shocking, twisting, thrilling end.

Themes/Settings
The main themes are centered around Sarah and Joanne’s Relationship and Sarah Brain injury and anxiety. How she copes with the murder of her sister. Proving her innocents. And how she is going to carry on without her Sisters support, how she will cope with her face blindness and her anxiety.

Overall Thoughts
Ah what to say about this unambiguous, wonderful, flawless and beautifully debut novel. She knows how to draw her readers into a book full of twists and turns, secrets and lies, multiple characters with motive, and sending us back to the past to experience Joanne’s and Sarah’s relationship, and how Joanne used to Support Sarah etc.

This imaginative plot is astounding and cunningly constructed, what you think it is, undeniably is not.

The pacing started of slowed but soon went at 150 MPH until the unveiling, shocking, twisting, thrilling end.

A Truly brilliant novel which I shall be looking out for lots more books by Amy McLellan. An Author to look out for who I predict will have a good future as a writer.

This book hooked me right in from the start, I loved it. It was fast paced and enjoyable and I found it difficult to put down. The ending was alright, could have been better but it wasn't a let down at all!

Ever since the horrific car accident, Sarah has had no memory of her past and lives with prosopagnosia or 'face blindness' - where you cannot recognise faces even those of your nearest and dearest. She has lived with her sister, Joanna, ever since her accident and is there when Joanna is attacked and brutally killed in their kitchen. Sarah is also attacked but left alive and from some of the evidence, the police think she did it and that her injuries were from a fight between the sisters. Sarah saw the killer but she cannot recognise him even if he was right in front of her so how can she convince the police she is innocent?

Wow, I have to say that the main character in this book is quite possibly one of the worst characters I've ever had to read about. She is horrible. I know she had a bad accident but everything is 'poor me, how will it affect me, what about me'? No-one else gets a look in. It is, therefore, a testament to the author's writing ability that I actually stuck it out and read the book. It starts off quick slow but it does eventually build up into quite a good thriller. I did work out most of what was going to happen but there were a couple of surprises.

Thanks to NetGalley and publishers, Orion Publishing Group, for the opportunity to read an ARC.

This was a good read with twists that I didn’t see coming. It is well written with interesting characters.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy.

Remember Me is a superb debut from Amy Mclellan. From its explosive beginning to its riveting climax, this thriller is suspenseful, exhilarating and well written.

Sarah suffers from anxiety and prosopagnosia (“face blindness”) after a car crash 20 years ago. She lives with her sister Joanna, who supports her whilst she continues to face daily battles with her conditions. When Joanna is brutally murdered and Sarah savagely attacked, it will take Sarah all of her strength to convince the police that a man she can no longer recognise was the perpetrator and not her...

Remember Me is a very clever and engaging thriller. Sarah is a fundamentally flawed central character that readers will verge between liking and disliking, suspecting of guilt and suspecting of innocence. Mclellan conveys a very authentic and affecting sense of claustrophobia around Sarah’s mental conditions, which really helps build the narrative to a striking crescendo. There is a string cast of supporting characters, all of whom have some element of motive for committing the crime and all take some questionable actions. Next door neighbour Alan is a cracking character, as virtually all of us have known someone like him before. He’s the essence of over-bearing friendliness that the repressed British middle-class have ingrained in them to mistrust. The constant questions raised in the plot about his past and his potential motives make him as equally a juicy character as Sarah. He’s just the right side of nice to seem sinister!

What I really enjoyed about the novel is the fact it’s like an onion, where every chapter peels back another layer until the bitter heart is exposed, leaving your eyes stinging and your senses in overdrive. I enjoyed flashback chapters that helped piece together Sarah and Joanna’s past, revealing all manner of truths and a number of red herrings. Was their relationship more toxic than first seemed? What has Joanna been hiding and what did she find out about someone? Whilst I found I guessed aspects of the final outcome, I wasn’t disappointed that the big reveals confirmed what I’d guessed. The climax of the novel is so well paced I didn’t care that I’d guessed the perpetrator...I was literally on the edge of my seat! I’m fact, I probably found the final few chapters even more suspenseful and tense feeling confident that I knew who the killer was. It’s a seriously exciting read nonetheless!

This is a very solid thriller and I applaud Amy Mclellan for writing a debut that I am going to be recommending to everyone.

I really enjoyed Remember Me and felt that it stood out among other psychological thrillers I've read recently. Sarah's 'face blindness' is an interesting and unique device that makes the book just that little bit different; it's fascinating to see how she deals with navigating everyday life. She's a complex character (certainly not flawless, particularly as more emerges about her past) yet I found her sympathetic and was rooting for her.

The book is full of twists and turns, and while I predicted many of them it didn't spoil my enjoyment – I was just satisfied at being proved right. As for the central mystery, the identity of the murderer, I was kept guessing until quite near the end. It clicked into place perhaps a little earlier than the author intended, and therefore I found the very last section just a tad drawn out, but that's a small quibble. I'd definitely recommend this book to any fans of the genre.

Thanks to Orion Publishing and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Dark, suspenseful and oozing with menace. Its not often I get a visceral response to a thriller that not only keeps me on the edge of my seat, but brings out goosebumps on my skin and makes my heart beat that little bit faster. These are undoubtedly symptoms of a great reading experience, and a natural physical response to a true thriller that really lives up to its name. Every page was turned with anticipation, with bated breath, and with an insatiable curiosity that meant I just had to read McLellan's compelling novel in one sitting. Imagine this novel as a new spin on the creative imperative that was the impetus behind 'Memento', 'Before I Go To Sleep', or Andrew Ewart's equally brilliant, ''Forget Me'. It ticks all the boxes of a suspenseful tale where the fallibilities of memory, and its constituent parts, are intrinsic expressions of the dark heart of the human condition. The anchor of the plot in 'Remember Me' is the condition prosopagnosia, where the individual cannot recognise faces. Sarah is a sufferer, and although she 'sees' the face of the attacker that killed her sister Joanna, and attacked her, she cannot remember the face, the identity of the perpetrator. With exquisite skill, McLellan shepherds us back and forth between past and present, teasing and enthralling, until the final, stunning denouement. Addictive and compelling stuff - highly recommended.

Sarah and her sister Joanna are relaxing when a man calls to the door. The next thing she knows, the man is in the house killing her sister and then he attacks Sarah. What makes things a bit more complicated is that Sarah has had prosopagnosia since she was in a car accident years before, a brain injury where you cannot recognise people's faces. The story changes between past and present and we slowly start to unravel the mystery of who killed her sister... and also what exactly happened all those years ago before the car accident. Sarah finds many secrets and shocks, and the story leads to a few great twists and thrills. A captivating thriller with a satisfying ending - I would recommend.

A very suspenseful story. I felt short of breath reading it. Amazing. Highly recommended for suspenseful thriller fans xxx

This was an excellent novel that I had a great time reading. Exquisite character development and fast flowing story make this book a success

A good book . Sarah has had a brain injury and it gradually becomes apparant that she isn'sure about what happens and how her sister was murdered. She gets the impression that the police thinks she did it . The story contains flashbacks as she remembers past events which contribute to the reader's understanding of the story . However there were couple of twists.....
A slow burner, I could not put it down towards the end
Thank you to Net Galley, the auther and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review

Remember Me’ starts with forty-something sisters, Sarah and Joanna, enjoying quiet night in, when their TV period drama is interrupted by the ring of the doorbell. From the verbal exchange Sarah overhears it is clearly this visitor is not a stranger to Joanna, but as Sarah suffers a ‘face blindness’ neurological condition, she is unable to recognise this man, who subsequently attacks both women, leaving Joanna dead.

What follows is Sarah’s experience of events - the crime scene and subsequent investigation lead police to suspect she has killed her sister, and she finds herself having to defend her innocence, while also grieving for the loss of her sister and feeling terrified and vulnerable as she tries to figure out who the real attacker is, and what threat he represents to her.

As Sarah delves into her dead sisters life to find a man with a motive to kill, she discovers some disturbing truths about her own past, specifically around the time of the accident that caused her brain trauma some 20 years previously.

I really enjoyed this story, it was an easy, entertaining and satisfying read. I could dip in and out without ever becoming confused and was sufficiently intrigued to see it through to the end!

My thanks to Netgalley, publisher and author for the opportunity to read an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Remember Me is a pacy psychological thriller featuring a character with face blindness whose Sister is murdered pretty much right in front of her yet she cannot identify the killer...

I enjoyed it for the most part- Amy Mclellan has a way of drawing you into a story, her writing is sharp and insightful- I read it easily in one sitting, wanting to know the outcome.

My one issue, which is definitely my own and nothing to do with the quality of the read, is that I was really irritated by main protagonist Sarah...I really wanted to stab her at various intervals- just way too whiny. 

That aside though the story is clever, the ending satisfying and overall I'd recommend for fans of psych thrillers everywhere.