Ultimately the two of them must come to understand what stands in the way of their love if they are to reach their happy ending.Ĭlick on this graphic to explore the book page on LibraryThing! Review Life after reincarnated life, spanning continents and dynasties, he and Sophie have been drawn together, and then torn painfully, fatally apart – a love always too short.

And he has spent centuries falling in love with the same girl. The secret is that Daniel has “the memory,” the ability to recall past lives and recognize the souls of those he’s previously known. Why does he call her Sophia? And why does it make her feel so strange?

But as the night unfolds, Lucy discovers that Daniel is more complicated than she imagined. On the night of her last high school dance, she hopes her elusive crush, Daniel Grey, will finally notice her. Lucy is an ordinary girl growing up in the Virginia suburbs, soon to head off to college. I overlooked all the comparisons to the Twilight saga because I knew Ann Brashares writing – she brought the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants into my life so clearly it couldn’t be that similar to Twilight … It was shortly after I moved to the southeastern part of Pennsylvania and I was really lonely, trying to make friends and I was drawn to the story (and admittedly the cover – I’m a sucker for starry nights). , but can appreciate a Nicholas Sparks-esque sensibility.I picked this book up a few years ago at my favorite local bookstore (where I now work).

Brashares's insights into human nature, meanwhile, should appeal to readers who enjoyed The Time-Traveler's Wife ) manages some satisfying momentum, even if the story begins to feel like it's borrowed from a James Patterson novel. The story moves slowly and predictably, though when a plot finally materializes, Brashares ( Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Meanwhile, Daniel takes readers on a tour of romantic near-misses, from sixth-century Africa through eighth-century Turkey to WWI. He disappears, presumed dead, but Lucy, unable to forget him, investigates his claims of their history until she discovers the truth. The story is primarily that of Daniel, as, in the present, he pursues Lucy (whom he knows as Sophia in a previous life) and attempts to persuade her of their history and destiny, but his passion initially and understandably scares her off. A romance that stretches across centuries and past lives constitutes the core of Brashares's varied second adult novel, the first in a planned trilogy.

My name is memory