Marnie Vinge Brings Readers~ I Remember Everything~ An Addictive Book I Couldn’t Put Down- Full of Suspense & Mystery- Readers Want to Satisfy Their “Need to Know.”

by Jeneane Vanderhoof

So when it comes to digital reading- it can be hard for me, with my medical issues. But, an indie author, Marnie Vinge happened to send me a copy of her thriller- I Remember Everything- and from the moment I opened the thriller and read the first chapter I was hooked. And I mean hook, line, and sinker hooked- I could not put this book down easily, as the thrill and the suspense of the book, the mystery surrounding an event that had happened- I had this desperate desire to know what was going on!! And the author was not forthcoming!! While the readers don’t yet know what exactly occurred, neither does the main character- when she is pushed off a luxury boat as the book opens.

And someone did it but who?

At the end of I Remember Everything Marnie shares the ideas that brought about the extraordinary story between these pages- that it was a real-life event of a German husband who, when visiting a waterfall in Norway with his wife (the same one that Vinge was visiting at the time she was told the true tale) and he had told her to back up until she backed right off a cliff, all of this found to be intentional. And this story, along with some others stuck with the author who then devised this twisted tale of tension and uncertainty- the “who done it and why”, along with what the heck is going on here-

The book starts right after Stephaine takes a fall off a luxury boat. Waking up she doesn’t remember anything except that she was pushed. And though her husband Steve acts just as he did all the years they have been married, Stephanie thinks it may have been him who has done it. And, when he gets an unexpected call from an attorney whom Steph looks up and discovers specializes in divorce, Steve tells her the attorney is calling for their friend, Collin who is going to divorce his wife, Cece.

Cece and Collin have come on the trip with Stephaine and Steve. They are best friends. But, when Steph asks Collin about the divorce he doesn’t seem to understand and tells Steph to be careful of Steve. After all, a month before, when she came to their office Steve had given her a black eye. Collin says he is familiar with the way a woman acts when they are hit by their husband because his own mother was beaten in this manner. However, when Steph shares with Steve that Collin had a mother who was a battered wife, Steve comments that couldn’t be true, that Collin must be messing with Steph because the man had never met his mother.

For Steph nothing is adding up and no one makes sense. Plus she knows that someone pushed her off the boat and they meant to kill her. And for some reason, Steph knows that’s why she was pushed off the boat- it’s not over and whoever did it wanted her dead and will most likely try again because they did not succeed.

Steph’s only hope is the last leg of their trip- at an ayahuasca retreat in Iquitos where the group will be in a country where they can take psychedelics. She believes a trip like that could help rediscover her memories, not just of who pushed her off the boat but what has been going on with her and Steve for the last few months and why her name is on an account in Collin’s phone called Black Label Trading. Right before they land at the Ancient Knowledge Retreat Center, Stephaine finds Collin’s phone, guesses his password, and finds balance sheets along with an account name and password, all with her name all over it, along with the business name of Black Label Trading.

In the end, when Stephaine discovers the truth of everything- why she was pushed, why there is an account with stolen money from Steve and Collin’s business in her name, and even the memories she has of her and Steve, their relationship and falling in love are all disjoint and misinterpreted- she discovers something about herself which is much more important than whatever else could have discovered. How she handles what she learns, however, is another matter indeed and even more telling of the kind of person she really is as the story wraps up with a twisted end readers never saw coming.

Wanting not to ruin the story for readers, hoping I have not said too much here already, I Remember Everything will keep readers at the edge of their seats and turning page after page, wanting to know what is going on. I am warning you, it’s hard to put this book down once you start. Marnie Vinge is a tremendous writer and when it comes to suspense- a master. I loved this story from the beginning although the twisted end left me a little angry. Read it to find out why.

This book was like an addiction as only good reading can be.

Happy Reading!