This series is seriously everything!!! I read it when it was self-pubbed and I read it again now and I seriously couldn’t forget it if I even wanted to. I loved the main characters, I love the humor, I love the writing and banter and everything from page 1 and on. Highly recommend this series to anyone looking for that YA/NA series that has all the angst, drama, wit, snark and banter.

I read this books over a year ago, and still think about it constantly. Honestly, I am still cussing in my head about that cliff hanger ending!! Well done sophomore novel.

I received an Advance Reader Copy at no cost from the publisher/author.

This series has gotten so much better with this second installment. After reading the first book in 2016, it stuck with me. Which is saying a lot since contemporary books don't tend to light my fire as much as a good fantasy or science fiction read. But this one stuck around. I finally decided to delve in and finish the series after a reread of the first book. I devoured the first book in one sitting, and this book was no different in that respect.

As I said in my review of the last book, this book is all about the characters. There is not much world-building, but enough to get the gist of where the characters are and what is going on in the story.

The characters are the reason that the reader is sucked into this story. The characters have really great development and they only get stronger as the series progresses. They have so much growth and I found myself falling in love with all of them. Even some of the side characters. (Knife Guy, anyone?)

The series plot really thickens in this book. It has a much more serious tone than the first book. So many things are brought to light, and there are lots of things that are creatively kept hidden to make the reader want more. While there were some things that I saw coming, there were definitely plot twists that I didn't foresee. I couldn't place the intentions of certain characters which made the read enticing and exciting.

This series has a lot of sensitive issues buried within. Topics such as rape, abuse, underage prostitution, self-harm, mental illness, PTSD, and more are present.

Overall, I am really liking this series. The characters really stick with you after reading. I would recommend this book to those that enjoy contemporary romance with a hate to love vibe. I wouldn't only recommend this to a more mature young adult audience because of the sensitive issues that are presented. I can't wait to see what happens in the final book!

Forget Me Always is the second book in the Lovely Vicious trilogy by Sara Wolf. This book was originally published as Savage Delight. With Isis and her memory loss, it was almost like starting from scratch with Jack all over again, except she avoids him now more than verbally attacking him like she did in the first book. Isis keeps her wit, but I missed those interactions with Jack. The beginning starts off well, and the ending definitely has me pumped to start reading the final book, but I had a hard time staying interested somewhere in the middle. We're given some more pretty valuable background information though, and there's a shady character or two that we get introduced to. The story line definitely takes a few darker turns as it goes... some you see coming. Some, you might not.

So. After the ending of the first book, I was expecting an even harder read. And tough it was, alrighty. I prepared with tissue and hot-chocolate and sugar. Lots of sugar. I wasn't expecting to love this story this much. Honestly, I hate those stories with amnesia. Unnecessary conflict. Too much trouble and misery. But in this book, I absolutely get sucked into the story. Jack and Isis... Oh god, they are the perfect couple.

I have to read the third book, like NOW! Be warned, huge cliff-hanger. Cruel, cruel author. (I love ya)

This book was very well written. I look forward to Book 3! Thank you for sharing great literature!

Forget Me Always continues on with Isis and Jack's story and relationship. Once I finished Love Me Never, I couldn't avoid starting this one immediately since the first book ended on a terrible cliffhanger and I needed to know what would happen next to the characters. And I must say, I'm happy with how things developed in this second book.

In the first book, I had some problems with Isis' personality, but in Forget Me Always she develops and grows a little bit, which is great. She still has her witty comebacks and a strong persona, so the character development on the aspects that made me not like her as much - like her mood swings - were so well appreciate it!
Jack was also different in this second book, mostly because we get a lot of POV's from him and we're literally in his mind, so we can see that he isn't just the 'Ice Prince'.

Isis and Jack's relationship had a huge turn after her amnesia (and I still hate that prognosis), and in the beginning I hated how Isis was treating Jack, because she could be so mean to him. However, we finally got to see more intimate scenes with them, which was a huge hallelujah! The hotel scene was probably my favorite and I just wished that it had been longer.

And we finally discover what did happen on that crazy night that everyone talked about in the first book! I was glad to finally uncover the truth from that night. Yet the addition of Tallie's character was a big and strange surprise, and I found it a bit odd and not that well explained, so I didn't liked that much. And can I say how gruesome it was the scene where Isis digs up Tallie's body... Oh my God, I don't know how a teenager can be okay doing that.

Sophia was another mystery from the first book that we got to know more about in Forget Me Always. I wasn't a big fan of the character, since I found her a bit mischievous, but I enjoyed the overall representation of terminal diseases that Sara Wolf did. Her suicide wasn't hard to guest from the final chapters, but it wasn't easy to read. Jack did so much to pay for Sophia's surgery and she killed herself without even performing the surgery? That was hard.

Yet the hardest scene was Sophia's funeral and Wren's thought that whatever was going on between Isis and Jack was over after Sophia's death. That was a punch in my gut and I won't accept it! They most be together!

Overall, I enjoyed a lot more this second book in the Lovely Vicious series. In Forget Me Always there are a lot of mysteries uncovered, a lot of romance in the air and a bit of drama that's already usual for this series. I obviously had some minor problems, but nothing that kept me from enjoying the plot and the characters.

Oh hey! I finished a book! Did I like it? You damn well bet I did!

This book was great like the first one. Second books are usually the "slump" books but this wasn't one of those. There were parts that felt dragging but it was alright.

What I liked:

Plot was really great. This book turned a whole 360 from the first book. If the first book was cliche, this one was DEFINITELY not. The revelations and plot twists. These things just wanted me to procrastinate on homework and keep on reading, haha.

Isis was still this amazing, unique character. I loved her humor -sarcasm and wit. I could actually see myself a lot in her. Especially with her humor.

"Ohhh no. I know how this works. First it's ice cream, then it's marriage."
"Marriage, huh? Tell me," he says coolly as we both walk toward the cart anyway, "who's the lucky sea slug?"
"Why sea slug? Why not, like, a sea dragon?"


Do you see what I mean?? Isis is just plain hilarious!

She has grown quite a bit from the first book. Before, she thinks that we're all doomed to fail. She basically expected the worst from everyone and lived in a day to day basis. She didn't think of the future. If she did, she thought of her mom. But her opinions do change, and she, for the lack of a better term, grows up.

...she told me about how much it hurt to just live, to exist, to breath and wake up every morning. One of us was in more pain than the other.


Jack. Well because of the selective amnesia Isis is dealing with, I felt really sorry for him. I don't really know what to make out of his character. Sometimes he's this amazing guy and other times he's a Jackass (pun intended) or as Isis likes to call him, Jackhole. But overall, I liked how he was in this book, he didn't force Isis to remember him -like telling stories and whatnot.

Sofia. Oh Sofia. How my heart aches for you. You're such a beautiful young girl who's given an unfair life. But I am glad that you have Jack and Isis. Kaley is still this amazing and supportive best friend. Avery is, well, Avery. Wren is bae. I love his character so much. He's grown too. In the first book, he's portrayed as a really nerdy kid. But he's changed too. He's still nerdy but he now has confidence.

What I didn't like:

There were certain elements in the book that I question if it could happen in real life. Because some of it just doesn't seem real. Then again, this book is fiction and they live in a completely different than i do. So I guess it's all relative.

OH AND THAT CLIFF HANGER. YUP. I HATE CLIFF HANGERS. WHY MUST THIS BOOK END IN A CLIFF HANGER LIKE THE FIRST ONE?!

Forget Me Always is the second book in the Lovely Vicious series and picks up right where Love Me Never leaves off. We get all of the same characters and Sophia plays a bigger role in this installment. Isis and Jack have a long way to go before they get back to where they left things. Sophia shows a different side to her and we see her true feelings for Jack as they are brought to life.
Isis and Jack are still the same flawed characters they were in Love Me Never and I love the sarcasm that they have. Sara Wolf has crafted a beautifully dramatic story. It will leave you hanging in the same way that the first book did. I can’t wait for the final book!

Man, this book started really promising. Isis was still 99,9% annoying and 0,1% really funny and sassy. But I just overlooked things, like I'm used to in these books, I wouldn't get through these books if I wouldn't ignore lots of things that are happening.

In the beginning I really enjoyed the moments that Isis and Sophia had. I was so happy about the friendship that these two were building. (Just like in the first book when I was more interested in the friendship between Isis and Kayla.). But Sophia was really hard to handle sometimes. To be honest the same can be said about Isis. So why would I even think that this would end up being something good.

I just don't like the charactes in the book. I know, I know. Mostly all of them have been through some bad things and are still fighting their demons. So I get the bitterness and what not. But, I just don't care enough about these characters and end up being more frustrated and annoyed instead of getting touchy feely when they have an actual nice moment.

I also couldn't care less about Jack and Isis as a couple. There is just something about these two that really irks me. Again, yes, they have their nice moment but ugh, no.

That ending had me shocked, though. Mostly because I thought it would happen sooner but it never did, so I didn't think the author was going to go there. But then she did. Just for that I will add a spoiler warning just in case, someone makes sense if my cryptic nonsense.

After reading all of this, you may think, why the heck is she still reading this stuff, even though she's so not into it. Well, well, children, when I start a series, I have a really hard time not finishing it. So, as soon as I see the third book around, I will grab that one, too. Cause even though, I may hate myself for it, I will finish what I started. Man, if I would apply that logic to things in my life, I would have 99 less problems in my life.

Note to myself: I need to check out other books by the author, cause I really like her writing, it's just the story that doesn't work for me.