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In the Dark We Forget: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Sandra SG Wong (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
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Some things are better left forgotten . . .

When a woman wakes up with amnesia beside a mountain highway, confused and alone, she fights to regain her identity, only to learn that her parents have disappeared—not long after her mother bought a winning $47 million lottery ticket. 

As her memories painfully resurface and the police uncover details of her parents’ mysterious disappearance, Cleo Li finds herself under increasing suspicion. Even with the unwavering support of her brother, she can’t quite reconcile her fears with reality or keep the harrowing nightmares at bay. As Cleo delves deeper for the truth, she cannot escape the nagging sense that maybe the person she should be afraid of...is herself.

With jolting revelations and taut ambiguity, In the Dark We Forget vividly examines the complexities of family—and the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive.

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"With In the Dark We Forget, the wonderfully talented Sandra SG Wong gives us everything a book lover could want–brutally honest social commentary, rich cultural details, deft psychological suspense, and often heartbreaking family dynamics. The result is a story that will stay with you long after you get to the last word. I couldn’t stop reading.” -- Kellye Garrett, Agatha, Anthony, and Lefty Award winning author of Like a Sister --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

SANDRA SG WONG writes fiction across genres. She is a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence and a nominee for the Whistler Independent Book Awards. She holds an honours BA in English literature and speaks four languages at varying levels of proficiency, though she usually only curses in one of them. Sandra SG Wong lives in Edmonton, Alberta, and is too often tweeting from @S_G_Wong or updating sgwong.com instead of writing.

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09CTWQWCV
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins Publishers (June 21, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 21, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2900 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 364 pages
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    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 64 ratings

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Sandra SG Wong (she/her) writes fiction across genres, including the cross-genre Lola Starke novels, Crescent City short stories, and the bestselling standalone thriller and Anthony Awards finalist, IN THE DARK WE FORGET. A Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence finalist & Whistler Independent Book Awards nominee, as well as a speaker, mentor, and hybrid author, Sandra currently chairs the DEIJB Advisory Committee for Sisters in Crime, and is an active member of Crime Writers of Color. You can join her Reader Group via sgwong.com.

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3.6 out of 5 stars
3.6 out of 5
64 global ratings
Great psychological suspense
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Great psychological suspense
First, I have to say the cover is everything 😍. It is just gorgeous and it matches the book so well!This is a great thriller debut! It starts out with a 💥 with Cleo waking up with amnesia on the side of the road! It slowly builds up momentum but is a great psychological suspense/whodunnit mystery! I loved all of the cultural elements scattered through and the Canadian setting. The family dynamic was so raw, painful, and emotional but really made the plot so suspenseful.Without giving anything away, I will say that during the big reveal, my spidey senses were going off and I was on edge, goosebumps and heart racing! Now that is great writing and a major page-turner. The ending was kind of vague but it left you thinking, which I loved!If you are looking for a great psychological suspense, definitely add this to your TBR! I cannot wait to see what Sandra SG Wong comes up with next!
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C.L.
4.0 out of 5 stars Embers turn into a blaze
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2023
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I really liked this book which burned slowly as Cleo sought to put together the pieces of her past to understand who she was/who she is. Sandra SG Wong puts the reader into Cleo's head and immerses you in her thoughts, emotions, and experience. I look forward to reading more of her stories!
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Valerie Anne
3.0 out of 5 stars Missing memories, big secrets--who is telling the truth?
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2022
This book relies heavily on the amnesia/memory loss trope, which is one of my least favorite thriller tropes so I know I have some reader bias. But I have enjoyed amnesia books in the past so it's not a hard pass for me. When it's done well, it can be really unsettling and compelling. When it's done poorly, it just comes across as a cheap trick. In the case of Cleo Li, I didn't quite buy it. She wakes up in the forest in Canada near the highway, with no memory of how she got there, and no memory of who she is. Her short-term memory and long-term memory both seem to be gone, but her actions after she's found by the police don't quite match up to expectations of how a person might behave with that kind of severe memory loss. Cleo Li seems to be more of a liar than an amnesiac, but then again, this is half the fun of the book--trying to figure out if Cleo is telling us the truth.

Though the premise was promising and the main character verging on intriguing, ultimately, I found the pacing of this story to be slow, the police investigation confusing, the writing style repetitive, and the characters' emotions a bit too overwrought for my tastes.

Recommended for readers who enjoy amnesia tropes, unreliable narrators, melodramatic characters, and complicated families with big secrets.

Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins for providing a free Advanced Readers Copy for review.
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Julie K
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is not to be missed!
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2022
Thank you NetGalley and Harper 360 for the copy of In The Dark We Forget. I thought Cleo was a wonderful, strong character. I liked how she learned about herself and how she was perceived and grew from it. Her relationship with her family was realistic and emotional.
I loved the story, how Cleo went from remembering nothing about her life and slowly started finding clues about what had happened and at the same time came to realizations about her family. The book did a good job of addressing family and racial inequities that do not just exist in Canada! The most important thing for me when reading a book is the quality of the writing, and this book delivered! Even if I hadn’t loved the story or characters, the writing was so hypnotic I would have finished this book anyway. This book is not to be missed!
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Jathan & Heather
4.0 out of 5 stars Sandra SG Wong’s ‘In the Dark We Forget’ Makes Readers Question Their Own Biases
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2022
With her new psychological thriller, In the Dark We Forget, Sandra SG Wong (Devil Take the Hindmost) does everything but throw a toaster in our bath water to give us a jolt. Told in first person by an unreliable narrator with no memory, she thrusts readers into the woods, isolated and alone, and leaves us to discover along with her protagonist what she can’t recall and why she’s forgotten everything she’s ever known. Readers are in for an unexpected treat with this one.

Cleo Li is our leading lady in this novel. Her tale starts when she wakes up on the side of a mountain highway, discombobulated and utterly unaware of how she ended up there. To make matters worse, she has no cell phone, no wallet, and no clue who she is.

As a Chinese-Canadian woman, she already deals with people’s microaggressions on a daily basis, but as she struggles to remember where and when she lost her memory, these biases become even more obvious as the people she encounters suspect that she may not be telling the whole truth.

After all, her problem isn’t just that she is having an identity crisis. Her parents, who just scored $47 million bucks in the lottery, have also vamoosed.

As the police investigate and her brother tries to help her, she digs deep, trying to resurrect her missing memories. But even as clues rise to the surface among the muddied waters of her past, she must try to filter out the facts, no matter how frightening they may be.

This is a literary thriller, one which builds tension gradually, makes us look at social issues and leaves us questioning everything. While the amnesia trope has been frequently done, Wong breathes fresh life into it. Part of the reason she succeeds here is because of just how palpable the family tension is among her characters.

The second reason this book works is that it is jam-packed with twists and turns, some we never even see coming, which is the fun part of reading novels in this genre.

And while I must admit that Wong takes us down the rabbit hole a bit much, which sometimes provides resistance to the author’s goal of heightening suspense, the novel still manages to work without getting too mired down in extraneous details.

Ultimately, In the Dark We Forget is a memorable domestic thriller, one which educates as it entertains, and leaves us examining ourselves and our own biases just as much as we speculate on Cleo’s mental state and motivations.
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Shelly Hammond
3.0 out of 5 stars Nice writing style
Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2022
This book had an interesting premise and a great cover. Those are the things that attracted me to it initially. I just found that I didn’t really ever get into it or click with any of the characters.
A woman wakes up with amnesia beside a highway. She is confused and alone. As she tries to piece together she learns that her parents have disappeared and it wasn’t long after her mother bought a $47 million dollar winning lottery ticket.
As her memories come back, police uncover details of her parents' disappearance. Cleo Li finds herself under suspicion. Even though she has the undying support of her brother she still can’t quite reconcile her fears with any reality or keep the nightmares at bay.
As Cleo delves deeper, she can’t escape the sense that maybe she really should be afraid of herself.
This was alright. It seemed to move into remembering in a weird way and quite quickly in the whole scheme of things.
This wasn’t my favorite but it certainly wasn’t bad by any means.
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ar
3.0 out of 5 stars Lackluster Book
Reviewed in Canada on September 14, 2022
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The timely shipping and integrity the book arrived in was perfect. The book itself is lackluster. Plot predictable. The author tried to cover many current day societal topics without actually covering much about anything.
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Scott Dalton
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story
Reviewed in Canada on August 14, 2022
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Amazing roller coaster of a story. Very hard to put down and I really liked the local flavours. Looking forward to Sandra’s next work.
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Brenda Roest
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring and Slow
Reviewed in Canada on September 26, 2022
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Boring read.
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Suzanne
2.0 out of 5 stars Not so much
Reviewed in Canada on July 14, 2022
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Great plot storyline - story was disappointing
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