Book Review-Before I go to Sleep

As you may have noticed, I really enjoy books with unreliable narrators...and who could be more unreliable than someone with amnesia.  Christine wakes up every morning with no memory of her life past when she was in her 20's, and even that is sketchy.  She wakes next to someone she doesn't know, in a room she is unfamiliar with, at an age that she dosen't remember living to.  When she goes into the bathroom, she finds pictures of herself and the man plastered over  the walls.  Her face, when she looks in the mirror, is 20 years older than she thinks it should be.  Every morning her husband has to tell her who she is, who he is, and why she doesn't remember. On the day that the book opens she has received a call from someone who says he is her doctor.  He picks her up and takes her to a cafe, and gives her back her journal.  For the past few weeks, apparently, she has been writing down what she has learned each day.  The doctor had called her each day to tell her where the journal was hidden.  Yes, she had been hiding it from her husband!   Through her journal she learns quite a bit about her life.  And all is not as it appears. I thoroughly enjoyed the pscyhological thriller elements of this story, and how the bits and pieces were revealed. What is a life if you can't remember yesterday, last week, last month?  Who are you if you have no past?  I rarely stay up late to finish a book, but I couldn't put this one down.

Before I Go to Sleep By Watson, S. J. 2011-06 - Harper 9780062060556 Check Our Catalog In this gripping psychological thriller in the vein of "Shutter Island" and the film "Memento," an amnesiac attempts to reconstruct her past by keeping a journal and discovers the dangerous inconsistencies in the stories of her husband and her secret doctor. HPL patron:  Keeps you on the edge of the couch...a thriller with unexpected twists. …More

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