Name: Lose Me. Notebook
ISBN: 9781542728980

M. C. Frank

A high-quality notebook with the beloved cover of Lose Me. by M.C. Frank.

Lose Me. Notebook

Paige Green

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I was in no way influenced by this arrangement.

Ari is an eighteen year old young woman living on an Greek island who has one constant thought running through her brain: "Today is not the day I die". She's a stunt woman and has been training hard for her first movie shoot that is taking place right in her hometown. Wes is a twenty-one year old British actor. He started acting when he was young, skyrocketed to fame very quickly, and is used to getting whatever he wants in the world. He's on the Grecian island to film a Pride and Prejudice adaptation. When Ari has a near fatal accident a day before filming is set to start, she has to face the inevitable reality that will forever intertwine Ari and Wes forever.

The book is a YA romantic parody of the classic Pride and Prejudice. I quite enjoyed that not only was the book a parody of the famous classic, but the movie the two mains were to be filming was a Pride and Prejudice parody as well. I could more accurately describe the book as a mix of Pride and Prejudice, The Fault in Our Stars, a dash of If I Stay/Where She Went, and sprinkling of Hamlet. The book was very well crafted and this normally non-romantic girl read over 300 pages of this book in one night. If that doesn't describe how much I enjoyed the book, I don't know what will. The characters are well written for the most part and the dialogue and actions between them was natural, again for the most part. The author did an excellent job of setting up the story and describing each scene so perfectly I felt I was watching a movie instead of reading a book. While I did greatly enjoy the book I did have a few critiques about it. I felt really uneasy with Ari a lot of time. She was super annoying with her wishy-washy personality and I kind of expected this stunt girl to be a bit tougher and bolder. While my opinion of her relaxed towards the middle of the novel I generally felt angered towards her through a lot of the novel. I think that's more of a personality difference between me and the character. I also felt that the characters fell in love way too quickly with one another. I believe that the story at the beginning could have been stretched a bit further. Also, at the beginning of my journey with this novel, I hated Wes. I realize he was the Darcy character, but in my one (yes, sorry classic lovers, I've only read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies before this other P&P parody) other P&P book I also hated Darcy. Both of those opinions later changed as the story went on, so this is more of a general warning to other readers: you will hate Wes in the beginning and then fall in love with him hard and fast much like Ari did. I also felt that this novel could have ended earlier. I felt the ending was dragged out and there were four or five perfect ending points that were prolonged for Ari to return to the character she once was. I felt Ari's story arc could have been completed earlier.

Overall I greatly enjoyed the novel. The novel does an excellent job of sucker punching you in the face with feels and making you rethink life itself. Trust me, once you read this epic romance, you'll be saying to yourself "today is not the day I die" and wishing for a hot pirate to come save you.

Rebecca Raven

“Today is not the day I die.”

Ari Demos, a young stunt actress with a promising start. Weston Spencer, Hollywood’s golden boy (literally, have you seen his hair?). When the two are thrown together for a modern-day adaptation of Pride and Prejudice anything can happen, and it does.



Lose Me by M.C. Frank is a story about overcoming fears, being true to one’s self, and -maybe- finding love along the way.

I gave this book a five star review because it met and exceeded all my expectations. Brilliant main heroine who's not just a Mary Sue? Check. Heart-throb main guy who's not just a love interest? Check. Plot that that you think you know what's going on but then the author pulls something out of left field leaving you grasping at the pages to find out what's going on? Check times a million. Once I started Lose Me I did not want to put the book down and I read it three main sittings.



Let's begin this review with our characters, Ari and Wes, our Elizabeth and Darcy. I don't know how Frank makes such well-rounded characters that I can't help but fall in love with but she does.

Ari is a stunt double in a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, which is actually pretty dang cool. Ladies, you don't have to be the leading actress. You can kick-ass by jumping off cliffs and driving cars around sick bends. Ari is an eginma the moment you meet her repeating “today is not the day I die” over and over again. Something’s amiss, obvious by the gentle cues from the writings, but you don't know what it is.



Wes is the leading man in the movie, literally the Darcy. And he’s just as you would picture as described by Ari before she meets him. But Wes isn't just a two-dimensional characters, smiling at the camera. He has feelings and demons that will haunt him throughout the novel.




When beginning this story I thought it was going to be a cut and dry Pride and Prejudice retelling: Elizabeth and Darcy meet, they hate each other. Darcy starts to pine after her and actually ends up doing things that make her hate him more. They apologize, realize their own faults and fall in love. But when I realized there were more than 200 pages left in the book it was obvious this novel would be so much more.



This book dragged my feels through the dirt, especially starting with Part II. 



It was around this time I was thinking “what more could there be to this story?” And Frank oh so delivered. At the time I was screaming at certain character’s decisions but looking back on the novel as a whole, those decisions were critical to the plot.

Part III was too short for my liking. I wanted to read more and more. But even I understand that a book can't go on forever and it has to end somewhere and I was not disappointed when I did.



“It's a story about misunderstand, of overcoming one’s worst faults and social comedy.” Wes couldn't have described Lose Me in a better way (he was actually explaining P&P but you get the point).



**Disclaimer: I was given an ebook of this novel in exchange for my honest review**

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