[photopress:9780882908212.jpg,full,alignleft]When Andrea wakes up in an L.A. Hospital, she doesn’t know who she is, or who those strange people by her bedside are. She finds out they’re her parents: Esther and Jack, and as she recovers, her mother tells her her past and about the horrible accident that robbed her of her memory.

As Andrea begins her new life, she starts to realize that she’s seeing flashbacks of her past, and they involve a loving man and a small child, though she’s been told by her mother that she was single and on her way home from college when the accident occurred. Just who are these people from her memory, and what isn’t Andrea’s mother telling her?

If you’re a connoisseur of fine Mormon fiction like I am, you’ll know that a great deal of it is over-the-top cheesy and unrealistic. Forgotten Love is one of the worst offenders I have read in a long time. How many times have we heard this plot before? Young, beautiful woman loses her memory, gets kidnapped by people who try to change who she really is, and woman ends up recovering her memory and escaping. And yes, Forgotten Love really is that bad. Unlike a lot of the hopelessly romantic and cheesy LDS novels that I just can’t put down, I really did want to put Forgotten Love down because it was so cliche. I kept hoping that maybe the ending would surprise me, but it was just as I suspected: happily ever after.

I hate to do this, but I don’t think anyone should waste their money on Forgotten Love. If you want to read it to see what I’m talking about, head over to your local Deseret Book store or find it on the web at www.CedarFort.com.