If I'm a book, then he's all the lines between every sentence. He's the curve of each letter reaching out to kiss the next, the swooping song of every italic, the pausing breath of well placed punctuation. I am the words, but he is the way in which you read them. Imagine you've been dreaming of someone for years. You've never met this person, but whenever you fall asleep, you spend those hours connecting on a deep emotional and physical level. No one in the universe knows you as they do, loves you as they do. But every day, you wake up, remember it’s all just a dream, and continue with your real life.⁠ But I’ll tell you the secret to appreciating this point of view. It is the only way to honor the portrayal of twin flames, star souls, soul mates. After years of forming an intimate bond with a mysterious man every time she closes her eyes to dream, a young woman, Eliza, forces herself to find a fulfilling life outside the confines of her own mind. Along with her partner Logan, she roams the safely discovered planets and moons of a newly traversable galaxy by inter-galactic transport, centuries after the evacuation of humans from Earth to a new home, Otera.

I struggled with the first person omniscient perspective of this book. It makes sense after getting to the ending, but it is something I am not used to at all and it sometimes broke my brain. Now, I have to talk briefly about the smut. I’ve had several people describe the smut in “Forget Me Not” as “beautiful filth”, and it’s spot on. Look, I say the word ‘filth’ with all the love in the world. The scenes between Eliza and Silas are passionate to the nth degree, and sometimes passion forgoes subtlety. But it’s raw and real. And given how many scenes Eliza and Silas share, all of them feel one-of-a-kind and unique (extra kudos to Karissa for such creative writing). I was impressed with the authors choice of writing style, First Person Omniscient, which means we see all events and thoughts of other characters through the voice of our narrator, who is the main character. Although, the cleverness of this choice... is ultimately what led me to be disappointed. After years of forming an intimate bond with a mysterious man every time she closes her eyes to dream, a young woman—Eliza—forces herself to find a fulfilling life outside the confines of her own mind. This book is told through a first POV omniscient narrator (Eliza), which can take some getting used to. I found this to be a refreshing way to read a romance novel. This also fed into the overall tension the characters (and by extension, reader) experience throughout the novel.I never connected with either Eliza or Silas. You don’t really get very in depth with their characters beyond them having a hell of a lot of sex and making flowery love declarations. I wanted to see more of them as individuals, and together building their relationship beyond sex. I think that there are two passing mentions that they want to get to know each other beyond their bodies, but we never get to really see it. I wanted a lot more cute moments to balance the spice. The only romance is when they spend that day together before they even decide to be together. The chemistry and steam was well written and started early. Whether it is in a dream world or what appears to be real life, it was done quite well! I found myself blushing at the dirty words more than one. Karissa’s writing is like a sonnet. I think this is easily my most highlighted book on my kindle. I cannot praise this book enough. Since I can’t stop gushing about it in this caption, I’ll put the synopsis and more details on the following slides. If the sci-fi romance genre gives you pause, just know it’s a love story that happens to take place in space, not the other way around, and the space setting paired with Karissa’s style make for a dreamy stunner.✨

I started reading {Forget Me Not by Karissa Kinword} last night and found the POV really strange. It is written in first person but then the main character (FMC) will start talking about the MMC in a way that is usually used in omniscient. I guess this would be first person omniscient, not something I’ve come across before. The thing about myself and Silas, is that we already know each other. The same way the sea will always know the sand. Existing together in waves, rolling, tumbling, sometimes calm and quiet, others like a rip current. The two of us swirl inside one another perpetually, stir and then settle - maybe we could exist apart, but what is more beautiful than the way the surf and sand refuse to stop kissing each other? Additionally, the first person omniscient, was a very confusing pov and left me quite annoyed. For me, I contemplated not finishing it because it felt so stagnant. I think it could have been salvaged because it wasn’t a bad story, it just wasn’t executed well enough for me. I'm a seedling gifted to him by the cosmos, planted in the muddy cave of his chest under overturned soil. I grow best in his climate, he knows this, we're a perfect match.While different, the point of view actually brought me to tears once I realized that Karissa did this on purpose. She knew that writing about two halves of the same star would need something more. Something other. And the fact that we are actually gifted every perspective in an ethereal and romantic way really elevated the entire experience. You've been trying not to sleep at night to avoid me," he whispers. "Meanwhile, Eliza, all I want to do is sleep, because that's the only place I can have you."