Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez
June 24, 2025
Sometimes you just need a palette cleanser! The Bookends Book Club tends to vote for a lot of fantasy, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I joined the Book Club to read books I wouldn’t normally pick and discover new authors. But, after several months of rather lengthy books featuring dragons, magic, and character names I didn’t know how to pronounce, I was ready for June and our beach read!
Our pick was Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez. I had read one of her other books, Yours Truly, and was curious to see how this new one would compare. I didn’t love it quite as much as Yours Truly, but I still found Say You’ll Remember Me to be an enjoyable read. The characters were very relatable, a few parts made me laugh out loud, and the pages flew right by. There was some Book Club consensus that the main characters seemed a bit fiscally irresponsible flying back and forth across the country trying to make things work. Despite being set in current times - FaceTime or Zoom wasn’t mentioned once! A bit odd, but then again, who wants to read a romance where the characters are never in the same room together. They were just too much in love to stay apart for too long!
Don’t let the Rom-Com classification fool you - this book involves some heavy subjects, including animal abuse and caring for a family member with dementia. But, since it’s an Abby Jimenez novel, it never veers into darkness - you know it’s all going to work out alright in the end. Going into this month, I never imagined that we end up having such serious conversations about the challenges of our current health care and social support systems.
For me, that’s the best part of the Bookends Book Club. Each month is a new adventure with a group of fellow avid readers. Everyone comes with different perspective and there are always lots of opinions shared, even by those who don’t finish the books! Reading is such a solitary pursuit, it’s nice to have a place to come together and share.
~ June's Blog Written by Book Club Member Stephanie Otts ~
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Couldn’t agree with you more Stephanie about what ended up being a very deep discussion on how our current infrastructures do/don’t support others with chronic conditions such as Alzheimer’s during bookclub this month. Wonderful summary!!