Loved it... spent all night reading it. it was fantastic Nate Crane all the way!!!

Absolutely loved this. It kept me wondering throughout the story. And can't wait for the next book cause I'm still wondering. ( )

It’s rare for me to stay awake all night reading, but I couldn’t stop reading this book! Lexi Ryan’s characters grabbed my attention from page one and kept me guessing until the very end.

The book begins by introducing its characters through the eyes of Hanna, our heroine and main character. Hanna wakes up in the hospital with a case of amnesia causing her to forget the last 11 months of her life. I know what you’re thinking, “how cliché,” but wait, there’s more. Not only does she not remember almost a year of her life, but she’s has lost a lot of weight, and is wearing an engagement ring and her lifelong crush, Maximilian Hallowell, is now claiming to be her fiancé.

Dunt dunt duuuuuhh!

This is where our story line presents itself, getting Hanna’s memory back. Now, I know, I know – “But our writer broke the rules, how could this book not be another corny romance?” The writer, Ms. Ryan, openly admits this writing faux pas, but this creative choice has no negative effect on the story. On the contrary, it excels the story into a fast paced suspense/mystery/romance that had me grabbing my e-reader until 3:00 AM.

I won’t go much into the plot and twists of the story, but just want to give you an idea of how complicated it gets trying to piece Hanna’s memory back together.

**WARNING SPOILER ALERT OF THE FIRST 4 CHAPTERS**

Upon being released from the hospital, Hanna is told her memory may or may not come back over time. Her wonderful, loving, and gorgeous husband to-be takes her back to her apartment where still nothing is familiar. Hanna then decides to create some new memories and fools around with Max. However, her straight laced, controlling, no-sex-before-marriage mother walks in on them.

Oooops!

After her mother fusses at them for being reckless, after all her daughter was just released from the hospital. Her mother then leaves ushering her fiancé out at the same time.

Not fair!

Hanna decides to call it a night and makes her way through the unfamiliar surroundings to her bed and falls asleep. But that’s not all ladies and gents! Hanna wakes suddenly in the night to what she believes is her fiancé coming back to stay with her.

In her haze of sleep, if finally registers that this person doesn’t smell like her fiancé, nor is his dirty mouth sound anything like him! She jolts from her bed, thinking the person in her bed is an attacker. Before things completely lose control, the guys eyes travel to the engagement ring on her hand and then he gets angry, “You could have told me.”

Why would an attacker care if she was engaged, or know so much about her???

***END OF SPOILER***

I’m not going to ruin any more for you, but I swear this all happens within the first 4 chapters and it doesn’t slow down from there. So when you read this book strap in and hang on; it goes about hundred miles a second!

I was thrown by the amount of emphasis the characters, and Hanna, put on her weight. The story made it seem that she lost almost 100 pounds. I get it. I’m a woman, we all have our body issues. I believe that this book was trying to demonstrate the struggle we all have learning no matter how hard we work we will never have the supermodel body, but the point is finding what makes us healthy and happy. I just didn’t expect it to be brought up throughout the entire book.

I really enjoyed reading Lexi’s first book of her new series. It was entertaining and sexy. I will say I was disappointed by the lack of actual sex in this book, but this was a character personality choice that I could live with. I also ran into a few places in this book when I was reading and everything seemed a little over the top. It seemed as though everything that could go terribly and horribly wrong, went terribly and horribly wrong and towards the end it became a little redundant. Hanna, however, is the best heroine I’ve read in a very long time. She’s strong, independent, and determined to make it on her own and on her own terms.

I can’t wait for Lexi’s next book in the series, “Fall to You.” I, for one, will definitely be reading!

*Reader Beware* If you are a person who does not like cliff hanger ending, this book is not for you.

Happy reading!

JL ( )

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I want to properly kiss Max more than I want to breathe. Without the memory of his kiss, this might as well be the first time.

As soon as I read that this book involved amnesia, I was hooked! Intrigued beyond belief, there were so many layers to this book. Every time you peeled back one, ten more would pop up. I loved that we got to discover everything for the first time right along with the main character.

“I’m not marrying your memories, I’m marrying you. And I would start over happily for you.”

There is nothing I love more than books that pull me in from the very first page. Not only did Lost In Me do that, but I ignored everything else around me, furiously flipping through the page with anticipation. The characters were just SO delicious! Having never read any books from Lexi Ryan, I had no idea this was a spin-off of another series of hers in which we get to know extended characters. That being said, it is not necessary to read those to become fully entrenched in this one. However, you better believe that the first thing I did after finishing this, besides run off to Goodreads to see when the next one came out, was to rush to Amazon and purchase her other books. Her writing style was so comforting and easy to read, and I mean that in the best way possible.

Then he walks away, and I’m alone and confused. And I think I have a broken heart, but I don’t know if it’s breaking for me or for him. And I don’t know who did the breaking.

I connected with the main character Hanna in a way that I haven’t with any other characters in such a long time. To read her struggles with weight and self image was like peering into my diary. It caused me to give myself a good, hard look in the mirror and be grateful for what I had, not to dwell on what I didn’t have. To be happy with myself just as I was. There was so much depth to this character, and it was immensely refreshing to read a character that had the same doubts as I did. It’s a subject rarely talked about in books, as characters always seems to be picture perfect at any given moment. But this was a woman with flaws, yet gorgeous all the same. If anything, her flaws made more beautiful in my eyes. It was a nice change of pace in the midst of everything else occurring in the book. Between all the mystery and intrigue lie depth and substance. A breath of fresh air.

“You’re like the sun-completely blind to your own beauty because you are so busy making everyone around you shine. No matter how far we hide in the shadows, you share your light. That’s how you stole my heart when no one else could find it.”

If you will notice, I didn’t go into hardly any details of what actually occurs in the book. I promise that was completely intentional as you need to discover them all on your own. This is a book worth reading again, even though I just finished it. I more than likely will re-read it when the next one comes out. It was that good! Speaking of, forewarned, major cliffhanger, but as these are novellas, it’s to be expected. I am not complaining, as I LOVE a good cliffhanger, but I also realize that some don’t. I eagerly anticipate the next installment. Come on June!

Love and need fill me so completely they hold together the pieces of my broken heart.

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